And this it is which enabled Hoadly to emerge triumphant from an ordeal where logically he should have failed.

The State, by definition is an absorptive animal; and the Church had no right to complain if the price of its privileges was royal supremacy.

A century so self-satisfied as the eighteenth would not have faced the difficulties involved in giving political expression to the High Church theory.
Yet the protest remained, and it bore a noble fruit in the next century.
The Oxford movement is usually regarded as a return to the seventeenth century, to the ideals, that is to say, of Laud and Andrewes.[13] In fact, its real kinship is with Atterbury and Law.

Like them, it was searching the secret of ecclesiastical independence, and like them it discovered that connection with the State means, in the end, the sacrifice of the church to the needs of each political situation.

"The State has deserted us," wrote Newman; and the words might have been written of the earlier time.