The History of the Church of Christ

The History of the Church of Christ

Milner, Joseph

Philidelphia: Hogan & Thompson, 1835

Internet Archive

1835

George Eliot to Maria Lewis, 20 May 1839. "I have been reading the new prize essay on Schism by Professor Hoppus, and Milner's Church History since I last wrote to you. The former ably expresses the tenets of those who deny that any form of Church government is so clearly dictated in Scripture as to possess a Divine right, and consequently to be binding on Christians. The latter you know exhibits the views of a moderate evangelical episcopalian on the inferences to be drawn from ecclesiastical remains; he equally repudiates the loud assertion of a jus divinum, to the exclusion of all separatists from the visible church, though he calmly maintains the superiority of the evidence in favour of episcopacy of a moderate kind both in power and extent of diocese, as well as the benefit of a national establishment. I have been skimming the "Portrait of an English Churchman" by the Rev. W. Gresley...." GEL 1: 25-6.

Milner, Joseph, The History of the Church of Christ, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57309

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