This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... till 1789 that the union and settlement of the Protestant Episcopalians into one ecclesiastical corporation was effected. The time of its creation is thus determined to be seventeen and a half centuries after the birth of the "Body of Christ." It could not have received jurisdiction from England; there is no ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... till 1789 that the union and settlement of the Protestant Episcopalians into one ecclesiastical corporation was effected. The time of its creation is thus determined to be seventeen and a half centuries after the birth of the "Body of Christ." It could not have received jurisdiction from England; there is no pretension that jurisdiction was obtained from the President of the United States, who by the way has as much right to accord it as has the Sovereign of England; clearly therefore the authority of the Protestant Episcopal Church has no origin outside of itself. It is a corporation possessed of such authority as its own members may create, define and accept. This authority is but human, and depends for extension, restriction, existence and validity on the will of the majority. The complete autonomy of the Protestant Episcopal Church ecured; it is not one in government with its mother, for in an evil moment it introduced lay representation, " an unfortunate example, set in a bad time," wrote the late Doctor Pusey. This isolation of the " Protestant Episcopal Church " deprives it of Catholicity, and makes it stand to the Church of Christ in the same relation that the United States do to England, namely, separated and independent. The position of the " Protestant Episcopal Church" is, so far as self-government is concerned, one with that of the "Methodist Episcopal Church." John Wesley was but a presbyter of the Anglican Communion. He without any sanction of the Established Church, and much against his will, called into existence another corporation or sect differing in doctrine and discipline. The Church of England had been separated from Rome not more than two centuries, and already were the poor neglecte...
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