A Sermon Preached at Fulham, in the Chappel of the Palace, upon Easter-day, MDCLXXXIX. At the Consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

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Anthony Horneck FRS (German: Anton Horneck; 1641–1697) was a German Protestant clergyman and scholar who made his career in England. He became an influential evangelical figure in London from the later 1670s, in partnership with Richard Smithies, curate of St Giles Cripplegate.

“The crisis of Crown-Church relations under James II culminated in the crisis of the Revolution of 1688, which cast a disturbing shadow over the subsequent consecrations. If William III were a usurper, as Sancroft, now Archbishop of Canterbury, maintained, was not the Williamite Church schismatic? Refusing to swear allegiance to William, Sancroft and five other Bishops were deprived on 1 February 1690.

In 1689, the bishop of Salisbury, Seth Ward, died, William nominated Gilbert Burnet, his chaplain when he invaded England. Understandingly, Sancroft would not himself consecrate Burnet, but Anthony Horneck, in the service’s sermon, provided a veneer of unity, maintaining that the new Bishop was called by God, the King, and the Church.”[i]

[i] The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689 – 1901.Pg. 315.