Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church
Subtitle: Against A Late Visitation Sermon, intitled, The Rights of the Clergy in the Christian Church asserted; Preach'd at Newport Pagnell in the County of Bucks, by W. Wotton, B.D
By: and made Publick at the Command and Desire of the Bishop of Lincoln, and the Clergy of the Deaneries of Buckingham and Newport ; [By Matthew Tindal ....
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1707
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Wotton, William, -- 1666-1727.; Tindal, Matthew, -- 1657-1733.
Other titles: The Rights of the Christian Church asserted ...; The Rights of the Clergy in the Christian Church asserted ...
Notes: 'Errata' note at end of text. Author supplied by H&L and ESTC.

According to the DNB, Tindal 'First made a sensation in 1706 by a book called 'The Rights of the Christian Church asserted against the Romish and all other Priests who claim an Independent Power over it, &c, and intended to show that the church had no rights of the kind claimed by the high-church party. He was answered by many writers, including his old tutor, Hickes, now a nonjuror, who reports Tindal as saying that he was 'writing a book which would make the clergy mad'. In that aim he succeeded prettywell; over twenty answers appeared'. In the entry for William Wotton, the DNB refers to a visitation sermon, published by Wotton in 1706, 'which attacked Tindal and received much applause.'.

ESTC1295T34 [under Tindal]; ESTC3276W17 [under Wotton].