@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5vm58p.9, ISBN = {9780300167108}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vm58p.9}, abstract = {The 6 December 1705 meeting of the House of Lords had been set aside for the peers spiritual and temporal to debate the high-church and Tory charge that the Church of England was in danger. Amidst the arguments for and against, Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury, rose to speak. Against the resolution, he testified to an established church in the full flush of revival. Burnet hailed the renaissance of pastoral care, particularly in London, “constant prayers, frequent communion, diligent catechizing, faithful visiting of the sick, especially,” he could not resist pointing out, “by those low church clergy they called low}, bookauthor = {Brent S. Sirota}, booktitle = {The Christian Monitors: The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730}, pages = {149--186}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, title = {Sacerdotalism and Civil Society}, year = {2014} }