ng from the overthrow
of the tyrannous hot-bed and forcing-system, where a sham conformity was
maintained by coercion; and the _Church-Papist_, as well as the
_Church-Puritans_, with ill-concealed hankering after the mass and the
preaching-house, by penal statutes were forced to do what their souls
abhorred, and play the painful farce of attending the services of "The
Establishment."

A writer in a _High Church_ periodical of 1717 (prefacing his article with
the passage from Proverbs vi. 27.) proceeds:

"The old way of attacking the Church of England was by mobs and
bullies, and hard sounds; by calling _Whore_, and _Babylon_, upon our
worship and liturgy, and kicking out our clergy as _dumb dogs_: but now
they have other irons in the fire; a new engine is set up under the
cloak and disguise of _temper, unity, comprehension, and the Protestant
religion_. Their business now is not to storm the Church, but to _lull
it to sleep_: to make us relax our care, quit our defences, and neglect
our safety.... These are the politics of their Popish fathers: when
_they_ had tried all other artifices, they at last resolved to sow
schism and division in the Church: and from thence sprang up this very
generation, who by a fine stratagem endeavoured to set us one against
the other, and they gather up the stakes. _Hence the distinction of
High and Low Church._"--_The Scourge_, p. 251.

In another periodical of the same date, in the Dedication "To the most
famous University of Oxford," the writer says:

"These enemies of our religious and civil establishment have
represented you as instillers of _slavish doctrines and principles_ ...
if to give to God and Caesar his due be such tow'ring, and _High Church_
principles, I am sure St. Peter and St. Paul will scarce escape being
censured for _Tories_ and _Highflyers_."--_The Entertainer_, Lond.
1717.

"If those who have kept their first love, and whose robes have not been
defiled, endeavour to stop these innovations and corruptions that their
enemies would introduce, they are blackened for _High Church Papists_,
favourers of I know not who, and fall under the public
resentment."--_Ib._ p. 301.

I shall now give a few extracts from _Low Church_ writers (quoted in _The
Scourge_), who thus designate their opponents:

"A pack or party of scandalous, wicked, and profane men, who
appropriat