As a protest against the selfish, utilitarian view of Christianity which was utterly at variance with the spirit displayed and inculcated by Him 'who pleased not Himself,' Lord Shaftesbury's work deserves the high tribute paid to it by its latest editor, 'as a monument to immutable morality and Christian philosophy which has survived many changes of opinion and revolutions of thought.The High Churchmen in question insisted that their position, and theirs only, was precisely that car leasing southampton of the Church in early post Apostolic times, when doctrine had become fully defined, but was as yet uncorrupted by later superstitions.The contrast is immense between the lofty minded and single hearted men who worked with Ken and Nelson and the factious partisans who won the applause of 'High Church' mobs in the time of Sacheverell.Nelson, prefixed to some car leasing southampton editions of the Practice, &c.As a rule, they showed no desire to separate themselves from communion with the National Church, although they were quite out of harmony both with the articles of its belief and the spirit of its prayers.And car leasing southampton Ken was in these respects a fair representative of many who thought with him.But his reason obviously is that 'the game would not be worth the candle.Where the stiffness of his 'Catholic and orthodox' opinions was not counteracted or mitigated by feelings of warm car leasing southampton personal respect, Ken could only view with unmixed aversion the working of principles which paid little regard to Church authority and attached small importance to any part of a Church system that did not clearly rest on plain words of Scripture.They all protested vigorously against the assumption that Deism was in any way opposed to Christianity rightly understood.x car leasing southampton.J.A Church in which they found what they demanded which was primitive and reformed which was free from the errors of Rome and Geneva which was not only Catholic and orthodox on all doctrines of faith, but possessed an apostolical succession, with the sacred privileges attached to it which was governed by a lawful and canonical episcopate which was blessed with a sound and ancient liturgy which was faithful (many Nonjurors would add) to its divinely appointed king such a Church was indeed one for car leasing southampton which they could live and die.