P." The fourth letter continues the subject, and is dated, Feast of St. Michael 1745.
George Smith, of whom many particulars have been given, ended his labours in the year 1756, and was buried in the church-yard of St. Oswald, in the city of Durham. Besides the edition of Bede, which had been left unfinished by his father, he published many other works, some of which, especially such as bear on the history of the Nonjurors, have been specified in this volume. His talents were of a high order, as his various productions, and particularly his controversy with Waterland, testify.[1]
A considerable number of works, on the controversy between the Nonjurors and members of the Church of England, was published by Lindsay.[2] In a work on Parochial Communion, the fact of two communions, a public and a private, in the Church of England, is stated, in Bennet's words, from his Nonjurors' Separation: and the question is put, "which of these two is the true Church of England?" The old arguments are then repeated.[3] Three years later, the subject is continued in another work, in which a Vicar of a parish is introduced as one of the interlocutors. In consequence of certain allusions, on the part of the Neighbour, the Vicar brings forward the question of the prayers for the existing Sovereign. At this time the feeling of the body
- ↑ Nichols, i. 170, 705.
- ↑ They were generally put forth anonymously: but the pieces to which I refer are ascribed to him by the Nonjuror, some of whose books are in my possession.
- ↑ The Grand and Important Question about the Church and Parochial Communion fairly and friendly Debated in a Dialogue between a worthy Country Gentleman and his Neighbour newly returned from London. London, 8vo. 1756.
