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. 1866 Excerpt: ...of 2 Christian Remembrancer, January 1866. 68 Example of St. Hilary. the Church. As a Christian gentleman, I am sure you will make your affirmation in none other than the grammatical and historical sense of your words; but I think it well, before any scandal arises, to let my rule of action be known. Should any one ...
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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. 1866 Excerpt: ...of 2 Christian Remembrancer, January 1866. 68 Example of St. Hilary. the Church. As a Christian gentleman, I am sure you will make your affirmation in none other than the grammatical and historical sense of your words; but I think it well, before any scandal arises, to let my rule of action be known. Should any one ever offer himself to me for Holy Orders, on the principle of subscription set forth in the Tract aforesaid, I should not only reject him as a candidate, but I should sustain his pastor in suspending him from the Holy Communion. We have not yet come to that pass, that premeditated perjury is less than scandalous evil-living; or that a man should be tolerated as a communicant who is prepared to lie to the Holy Ghost. In the Church of England discipline is so hampered by the power of the State, that many scandals go unpunished there, which, in this country, can be suppressed summarily. Now, I suppose it to be self-evident that if a clergyman, or candidate for Orders in our Church, professes to hold any distinctly Romish doctrine, and at the same time to accept the Thirty-Nine Articles, he is an immoral man. The thief and the counterfeiter are not so bad as he in the sight of God. With such a hypocrite I will deal as a Bishop should; I will use the degree of forbearance which the Holy Scriptures and the Church enjoin, and then proceed to make an example of him. In the ancient days, St. Hilary could say to a heretical Bishop of Rome, "I call thee anathema, thou prevaricator, Liberius." Let me urge you to study the sound old Anglican Divines of the Seventeenth century, and you will then see, clearly, how to bear yourself toward Papists. You will see that instead of meeting them at Trent,8 on any pretence whatever, it is our duty to summon th...
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