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Under the latter he was deprived of his preferment in Oxford, and under a harsher rule might have incurred yet graver penalties.He lived chiefly in a nonjuring circle but even during the years when he wholly absented himself from parochial worship, he was on friendly and even intimate terms with many leading members of the establishment, and their active co operator in every stange news stories scheme for extending its beneficial influences.' More than once, observes Dr.Nelson proposed to preserve the memory stange news stories of his friend in a biography.First in order among Nelson's friends not in intimacy, but in the affectionate honour with which he always remembered him must be mentioned Bishop Ken.He has made use of many of Ken's prayers, together with some stange news stories from Taylor, Kettlewell, and Hickes, in his 'Companion for the Festivals and Fasts.Even Bishop Ken said of him that he showed zeal to make the schism incurable.Robert Nelson himself was entirely unaffected by the current which just at this time seemed stange news stories to have set in in favour of Rome.Although a Jacobite and Nonjuror, he was enrolled, with not a few of the most distinguished Churchmen of the day, among the earliest members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge at its formation in 1699 and long before his re entering into the Established communion we find him not only a constant attendant, but sometimes chairman at its weekly meetings.Nelson called him 'a stange news stories consummate divine,' and by no means stood alone in his opinion.It may be added here, that when Pepys, author of the well known 'Diary,' cast about in 1703, the last year of his life, for a spiritual adviser among the nonjuring clergy, Robert Nelson was the one among his acquaintances to whom he naturally turned for information.The decision of many a conscientious man hung wavering for a long time on the balance as he debated whether or not he could accept the new oath stange news stories of allegiance.And so far from agreeing with Hickes and Dodwell, who would acknowledge none other than Episcopal Churches, he said that if he were abroad he should communicate with the foreign Reformed Churches wherever he happened to be.Bull had been ordained at twenty one he was consecrated, in 1705, stange news stories Bishop of St.When a choice was given him of two or three of the sees vacated by the deprivation of the nonjuring bishops, he declined the offer.