The Hanoverian Succession of 1714 has not attracted the scholarly attention that it deserves. This is partly because the idea of the ‘long eighteenth century’, stretching from 1688 to 1832, has tended to treat the period as one without breaks. However, 1714 was in some respects as significant a date as 1688. It was the last time in British history that there was a dynastic change and one in which religious issues were at the forefront in people’s minds. This collection of essays were among the papers delivered at conferences in 2014 to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian Succession of 1714, held at Oxford Brookes University and Bath Spa University. They reflect some of the major issues that were evident in the period before, during and after 1714. In particular, they deal with how disloyalty was managed by the government and by individuals. They also demonstrate how central religion was to the process of securing the Hanoverian Succession and to the identity of the new regime established by George I. Disloyalty – real or imagined – was apparent in legal suits, in sermons and preaching, and in the material culture of the period. And once the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 had been overcome, the need to secure the loyalty of the Church and clergy was a key objective of the government.

The Spirit of Sedition In The ChurchOver the years, we have seen many churches split as a result of sedition, betrayal and quiet manipulation of leaders against the pastor. The spirit of SEDITION influences one to take illegal action by inciting resistance toward lawful authority. It undermines constituted authority, loyalty, and birth betrayal to bring about a split within a structured organization. Its goal is to steal the position and power of the set man or woman of God to whom it has professed submission.This book addresses the origin of such a spirit, how it undermines and manipulates men within leadership to rebel against the senior Pastor. In this book, you will discover key spiritual factors behind the existence of the spirit of Sedition, how they work and how they must be handled.For example: *The Luciferian factor*The Absalom Spirit*The Korah SpiritThe good news is that if you sense yourself being attacked by this spirit, there is forgiveness and there is deliverance available to you through the power and person of Jesus Christ. Sometimes the Holy Spirit reveals to us what's killing us internally, it causes an inner separation between your fleshly conditions and spiritual fruit. And once you see the line of separation you must know that by the power of God in you, you must kill that perverted spirit. Either you kill it or it will kill you. Pastor Cy For

The Long Eighteenth Century was the Age of Revolutions, including the first sexual revolution. In this era, sexual toleration began and there was a marked increase in the discussion of morality, extra-marital sex, pornography and same-sex relationships in both print and visual culture media. William Gibson and Joanne Begiato here consider the ways in which the Church of England dealt with sex and sexuality in this period. Despite the backdrop of an increasingly secularising society, religion continued to play a key role in politics, family life and wider society and the eighteenth-century Church was still therefore a considerable force, especially in questions of morality. This book integrates themes of gender and sexuality into a broader understanding of the Church of England in the eighteenth century. It shows that, rather than distancing itself from sex through diminishing teaching, regulation and punishment, the Church not only paid attention to it, but its attitudes to sex and sexuality were at the core of society's reactions to the first sexual revolution.