CHAPTER IX.
A. D. 1720—1800.
The Nonjurors divided into two Communions.—Both ordain Bishops.—Death of Collier; of Spinkes; of Leslie; of Laurence Howell.—The Succession continued.—The Divisions on Usages cease.—Communion Office generally adopted.—Blackburn and Law.—Orme.—Jenkin.—Death of Gandy; of Samuel Parker.—Account of Hearne.—Harte.—Controversies.—Waterland and Smith.—Nonjurors again divided.—Lawrence a Bishop of the Separatists.—His Works on Lay-Baptism.—Death of Brett; of Baker.—The Rebellion, 1745.—Sufferings of the Nonjurors.—Deacon.—His Works.—Blackburn's Death.—George Smith's Death.—Lindsay.—His Works.—Controversies.—William Law.—Carte the Historian.—The Pretender.—Question respecting his Religious Views.—His Death.—Gordon, the last Bishop of the regular Body.—The Line ceases.—Bishops of the Separatists' Line.—Extinction of this Line, and of the Party in England.—Services rendered by the Nonjurors.
he Nonjuring communion was now broken into two sections, under their respective leaders. Both parties were hostile to the National Church: but Spinkes, with his supporters, dissented only on the questions of the Oaths and the Prayers for the reigning Sovereign; while Collier and Brett, and those who concurred with them, introduced, as we have seen, a New Communion Office, involving several important practices, which had been deliberately rejected by the Church
