HIGH Church was a denomination originally given to those otherwise called Nonjurors, who refused to ac-
knowledge the title of William III. to the crown of Great Britain, under a notion that James II. though excluded, was still their rightful sovereign. This appellation was given them, because they entertained high notions of the dignity and power of the church, and the extent of its prerogatives and jurisdiction. And those, on the contrary, were called low-church-men, who disapproved of the succession and obstinacy of the nonjurors, distinguishing themselves by their moderation towards dissenters, and were less ardent in extending the limits of church authority. The denomination of high-church-men is now more generally applied to all who form pompous and ambitious conceptions of the authority and jurisdiction of the church, and who would raise it to an absolute independence on all human power.