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THE VALIDITY OF THE HOLY ORDERS

OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAINTAINED AND VINDICATED BOTH THEOLOGICALLY AND HISTORICALLY, WITH FOOT-NOTES, TABLES OF CONSECRATIONS AND APPENDICES.

By the Rev. FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, D.C.L., F.S.A., Vicar of All Saints', Lambeth.

Contents: Preface-List of Books quoted or referred to. CHAPTER I.-Introductory: Statement of the Author's object. II. The Preface to the Ordinal of 1549. III. Form for the Ordination of Deacons, 1549. IV. Form for the Ordination of Priests, 1549. V. Form for the Consecration of Bishops, 1549. VI. The Edwardine Ordinal. VII. The Ordinal of King Edward VI.Objections. VIII. Ordinal of King Edward VI. in substantial harmony with the most ancient forms. IX. Some other ancient forms for Ordination. X. Medieval forms for Consecration and Ordination in the West. XI. The same subject continued. XII Eastern forms of Ordination. XIII. Forms of Ordination in use amongst the separated communities of the East. Christians of St. Thomas. XIV. The Nestorians. XV. Archbishop Matthew Parker. XVI. The Consecration of William Barlow. XVII. The Consecrations of Hodgk'ns, Scory, and Coverdale. XVIII. The Consecration of Archbishop Parker. XIX. The Nag's Head Fable. XX The Case of Bishop Bonner versus Bishop Horne. XXI. The Sacrament of Baptism. XXII. The Office of Consecrator and Assistant-Consecrator. XXIII The Doctrine of Intention XXIV. and XXV. Roman Catholic Testimonies to the Validity of Anglican Orders. XXVI. The Cases of Certain Anglican Clergy who have joined the Church of Rome. XXVII. Changes made in the English Ordinal in 1662. XXVIII. Concluding Remarks and Summary of the Author's argument.

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

Tables of Consecration: I. Archbishop Parker.
II. Archbishop Laud. III. Archbishop Juxon.
APPENDICES.-I. Authoritative statements regarding
Ordination officially published in 1537 and 1543.
II. An Act concerning the Consecration of a Bishop
made in 25th year of Henry VIII. Cap. xx. sec. 5.
III. Statutes relating to the Consecration of Bishops
under Edward VI.

IV. Act 3 Edward VI. to draw up a New Ordinal.
V. Act to annex the Ordinal to the Prayer Book.
VI. Act 1 of Mary to repeal the preceding Acts.
VII. Act 1 of Elizabeth to re-establish the Book of

Common Prayer.

VIII. Act declaring the legality of the Ordinations. XI. The Thirty-Nine Articles on Ordination.

X. Documents relating to the Consecration of Barlow and Hodgkins.

XI. Documents relating to Scory and Coverdale.
XII. Documents relating to the Consecration of
Parker.

XIII. Parker's Book, De Antiquitate Britannica
Ecclesiæ.

XIV. Henry Machyn's Diary, with testimonies regarding the same.

XV. Breve of Pope Julius III. to Cardinal Pole.
XVI. Dr. Lingard on Parker's Consecration.
XVII. Documents relating to the Consecration of
Horn

XVIII. The Nonjuring Consecrations. Bishop Hickes'
Records.

XIX. Documents concerning the Case of Bishop Gordon of Galloway.

XX. Dr. Newman's Letters on Anglican Orders and replies to the same.

XXI. Certain Comments on Roman Catholic statements. The Charges of Forgery.

XXII. Letters of Orders of various Communions. General Index.

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DR. TEMPLE ELECTED.

THE prophecies of the newspaper-prophets have signally come to nothing. Only six men-may God bless them, and may the faithful have their names long in remembrance as good men and true! only six men were found to stand up in defence of the truths of Christianity in opposition to the principle of Essays and Reviews. The projector and Editor of that volume, which has been solemnly condemned by Convocation, is now Bishop-elect of Exeter. He is so by the power of the Crown, by the grace and good-will of Mr. Gladstone, and by the formal and solemn election by a large majority of the Exeter Chapter. Let it not be said henceforth that the State made him Bishop. State authorities nominated him, but Churchmen-to their deep shame and disgrace-elected him, and, therefore, we do earnestly trust that both now and in the future the saddle may be put on the right horse. Those Clergy, who are so ready to sacrifice all principle are ever abusing and maligning the State, in order to mislead public opinion from contemplating their own obvious shortcomings. They loudly blame the State when they ought to blame other people.

Had the timid and abject creatures who absented themselves from the Chapter meeting last Thursday-poor tools with weak consciences and feeble bodily health-gone and done their duty, in face of the World, the Devil and the Liberals, the moral effect of the opposition would have been much greater than it has been. As it is the principles of Essays and Reviews is now an influential part of the Anglican tradition. The Westminster Review accurately wrote that the teaching of that volume is now as much a portion of the doctrine of the Church of England as Mr. Liddon's doctrine or Mr. Carter's. In fact, more so; for we question whether any Anglican Bishop would stand sponsor to all that Mr. Liddon and Mr. Carter have written, whereas we know that the Lord Bishop-elect of Exeter is the patron, defender and coadjutor of the Anti-Christian Essayists.

This state of affairs is brought about by the blessed and benificent action of Mr. Gladstone-who thus punishes the Clergy for having so properly kicked him out of Oxford-and by the Liberal and Whig Parsons of the Exeter Chapter. Poor Dr. Pusey, the Vice-President of the E.C.U., and hitherto the political agent of Mr. Gladstone in the University of Oxford, is a little shocked and uses strong language; but he has been shocked so often, and has used strong language so frequently, that men have come to see that it is all froth and noise, or as Shakespeare has it, "full of sound and fury signifying nothing." He has cried "Wolf!" so often that now nobody attends to him.

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DIOCESAN ORGANIZATION.

Ar last, however reluctantly, the majority of Churchmen appear to be convinced by recent events that critical times are in store for the Church and State of England. Seldom indeed have more startlingly ominous shadows been cast before. The long apathy which succeeded the abnormal excitement of the Reformation and Rebellion periods, has in its turn been followed in the present century by a reaction of energy; and some of the bitterest fruits of that energy we have still to taste. It was pleasanter, and consequently more popular, till of late, to paint the prospect before us with an imaginary couleur de rose; Convocation was revived, and the Church, it was said, was secure in the affections of the people;" the innate Conservatism of the nation so averse to rapid change would at any rate postpone any disagreeable revolution till after our time; not a few secretly cared little if then should come the deluge. But men's eyes are now considerably opened, and a very general feeling of discomfort has arisen, not unmixed with bewildered alarm. Twelve months have sufficed to abolish half of the Church Establishment, and not only so, but very effectually to rob her. The statesman who was to fill the Episcopal bench with High Churchmen, and whom the Guardian and its followers have not unsuccessfully laboured to encircle with a halo of Anglo-Catholic sanctity, has not only accomplished this predatory feat, but in the exercise of his patronage has applied to a very unexpected and unsavoury quarter.

To such a pass indeed have events come, that we have very nearly witnessed the fulfilment of the prophecy that the lion and the lamb should lie down together; Dr. Pusey and Lord

The time before us is evidently short; but it is enough if God's good Providence should grant decision and resolution to those who value their inheritance and love their country. The obvious course to take in order first to oppose an at all effective resistance to the destructives, and secondly, should that fail, to prevent an utter collapse and dissolution of the Church, is to unite. The obvious way to promote union in our own ranks is to utilize and extend the existing machinery of our system; and foremost in that machinery most thoughtful men agree in placing the Diocesan scheme with its capitular and parochial ramifications.

If Church Conferences have done no other good, they have at least indisputably shown the advantage of bringing men of opposed sentiments and different schools together; they have shown that there are most important matters on which it is possible to produce almost unanimity: that prominent men on one side are not necessarily so black as the other was wont to paint them; that Clergymen are not all narrow-minded, nor Laymen unecclesiastical. The indirect impulse which has thus been given to regular synodical action is invaluable. For too long a time a tendency to isolation has prevailed; each country parish would be an imperium in imperio; each Priest his own Bishop; and the Laity left out in the cold. Such a state of things if continued must rapidly extinguish sympathy, and eventually life itself.

Many Dioceses, however, have set an example well-deserving of imitation: Ely, Gloucester, Oxford, Lichfield, and others are bestirring themselves to do the Church's work in the Church's ways; and it is this that we would urge upon the attention of all who seriously regard the eventful future.

As was well pointed out recently by a contemporary, the interest of the Laity, that is the people, must be at once engaged and directed. At present it is too generally undefined and often captious; freely welcomed to a share in the work which is for their benefit, taught for what aims they must contend, their co-operation will freely be given, and the common strength proportionately augmented. Where no steps have yet been taken in this direction it should be an immediate object to revive in each Parish, each Deanery, each Diocese, duly organized assemblies to represent in their respective stations all members of the ecclesiastical body. Experience proves it to be the natural remedy for existing weakness, and History teaches that it is the right one. Common deliberation supplies a necessary outlet for unfounded jealousies and real grievances, and sows the seed of much wanted charity, and common work involves united power.

THE COMING ROMAN COUNCIL.
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THE 8th of December, 1869, will be not only a day of universal excitement and interest to the four continents of the world, but a mark for future historians who will look back, generations hence, to this date in writing the history of the nineteenth century. On that day the Pope will gather round him a vast assembly of Bishops and theologians with whom in solemn conclave he will proceed to discuss the present position of affairs in the Roman Catholic Church, and possibly to promulgate some novel dogma henceforth to be regarded among themselves and throughout their own Communion as de fide. The political importance of

In confirmation of this it is striking to remark at the outset with what extreme caution, if not coldness, the coming Council is contemplated by the Government of those countries which may be supposed to have interest at stake. It has already been announced in certain quarters that, "while not opposing the meeting of the Council, full liberty will be reserved to take such steps as shall be desirable after its deliberations are over; in other words Pius IX. is politely informed that, however grand and imposing a spectacle he may create in the Cathedral of the Great Apostle, however many mitred heads he may congregate within the walls of the Eternal City, the scheme of European re-construction must go on notwithstanding, and individual States must not be lectured, or thwarted in the execution of their pet political projects. In olden days, in those happy times when Rome ruled the roost and had it all her own way, and when sweet harmony between Church and State was the rule and not the exception in Catholic countries, Princes of the blood-royal, Kings, Emperors and small Sovereigns lent the dignity of their presence, and the weight of their influence to these Great Councils of the Roman Church but circumstances have changed all this, and not a crowned head, save he of the triple crown, the Sovereign Pontiff himself, will grace the proceedings of the eventful 8th of December. inclined to think that the present position of affairs in Europe fully justifies this witholding of their persons on the part of those who might otherwise with propriety attend. Austria, Italy, and Spain, not to mention many "lesser lights," are not at present excessively cordial in their political relations with the Court of Rome, and although this is not to be a political Conference, the well-known propensity of that small kingdom to convey practical hints under the cover of every ecclesiastical Latin might render unpleasant, not to say undignified, the official attendance of any of these Powers in the person of their respective rulers.

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But it is in their religious aspect that the doings of the Roman Council of 1869 will command the attention of English-speaking people throughout the world. Whatever statistics may prove as to the lax morality of the United Kingdom, Englishmen are undoubtedly a religious people to this extent, that religious questions kindle in them an interest far more keen, an enthusiasm infinitely more genuine than any political or social questions, be they never so important. We have just passed through a period of this kind of excitement, and in such a manner as to prove abundantly, were proof wanting, this trait in our national character. The most sacred feelings of loyal Churchmen have been grossly insulted, their tempers sorely tried, by the temporary triumph of Radical violence, and the consequent dismemberment of a portion of our Established Church; we are, therefore, in a peculiarly fit position to sympathize with any fellow-Christians who are in danger of suffering from despotic rule, and none the less so if that despotism threatens to take the form of enthralling the conscience by enforcing the belief of new superstitious fables.

It must be known to most of our readers-and we take this opportunity of informing the ignorant-that the avowed object of this Council is to make a "matter of faith," that is, to be believed under pain of damnation, the Ultramontane doctrine of Papal Infallibility, a doctrine hitherto confined to over-zealous 'verts and super-ignorant rustic Priests. The former class will be ably represented by Dr. Manning, the R.C. Archbishop of Westminster, whose powerful eloquence and insinuating rhetoric will alike be devoted to overcoming

the tender scruples of his brother Bishops, few of whom it is expected will have sufficient courage of their opinions to oppose the polished Latin orations of one of the most finished classical scholars now living. The success or failure of the attempt will, however, greatly depend on the amount of Liberty of Speech permitted to the representatives of the several parties in the Church. If such men as Dollinger, Kettler, and the Archbishop of Paris, are to be muzzled or gagged, then the utterances of the Council, howsoever pleasing to the Ultramontanes, will carry no weight whatever with men of impartial mind, gifted with ordinary reasoning-faculties and an honest love of fair play. For it must be distinctly remembered that this Council is in no sense Ecumenical like the generally-accepted General Councils of the Church, and therefore is deprived of that authority and respect which, as such, it might fairly claim. In surmising how much freedom of deliberation will be allowed to moderate men, we are not much gratified when we read in Le Monde, the Parisian Ultramontane organ, that "The Philosophical Sects are always seeking truth: the Church declares it, and does not put it in discussion." Exactly so! Gallileo 'sought and found truth in the starry firmament," and "the Church" infallibly pronounced him a sorcerer, and denied his truth. But further, if the Roman Church, rejoicing in its universal knowledge of truth, is above seeking or discussing it, it does seem somewhat superfluous to summon many hundred Bishops from all parts of the world simply to "declare" what is as old as the Church itself, that which, according to this lofty argument, must have been known and accepted as true by every Catholic Bishop from the days of St. Peter till now. That is one horn of the dilemma; the other remains, and it is this-If the personal infallibility of the Pope has not been hitherto known and received, how have the Roman Catholics discovered it without "seeking," and how will they be able to enforce it on the enlightened members of their body, who know it to have been born in ambition and nurtured in superstition, without "discussing" it? Bacon says that "the enquiry of truth is the sovereign good of human nature,' and many who sit in the Council will agree with him: but that great Philosopher addressed himself to ordinary mortals striving after truth, and not to Saints perfected who simply declare it; so that in the present instance his words will probably not carry much weight. But this point of personal infallibility, though the most important, is only one among many which will test the power and influence of that great school of moderate men within the Church of Rome who are now beginning to see, what Englishmen and others saw three hundred years ago, that their Church is not everything which she ought to be, not immaculate, not infallible. Men such as Hyacinthe and Ffoulkes are honest men, who, seeing error in the bosom of their own fold, are not ashamed or frightened to point it out. They are not isolated individuals, but representatives of an extensive party; and their appearance on the horizon at the present moment is the healthy sign of a new era which is dawning slowly but surely, when superstition shall give way to the onward march of civilization, and Roman intolerance shall be a thing of the past. These will die hard, but they will die none the less.

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Pulpit Literature: Memorabilia, Anecdotes, etc., of Celebrated Preachers, from the Fourth Century of the Christian Era to the Present Time, (James Hogg and Son)-is nearly all that is necessary to a description of its contents; and of the manner of presenting them it may be said that it is judicious, practical, earnest, and in good taste. The volume is handsomely put forth by the publishers, and an elaborate engraving of the new pulpit in the author's Church of St. Mary, Stoke Newington, adorns the title-page. As to the object of the volume, beside the interest and improvement of the general reader, it is to present to the preachers of to-day examples from the whole range of pulpit literature, both of failures and successes, which may serve respectively as representative evils to be avoided and excellencies to be imitated. Biographical sketches of various preachers from the fourth century to the nineteenth are made to alternate with frequent extracts from their Sermons. The peculiarities of the ancient preachers-the vivid illustrations of current life that marked St. Chrysostom; the soft and delicious eloquence of St. Basil; and the terse and argumentative style of St. Augustine, are either noted or illustrated. Afterwards, and in greater detail, the author proceeds to describe and to exemplify the quaintness, the directness, and the vividness of the mediaval preachers, who, in the words of Mr. Baring-Gould, "did not make long extracts, but with one light sweep brushed up a whole bright string of sparkling Scripture instances." Then follow anecdotes and reminiscences of celebrated French, Spanish, German, and other foreign preachers since the era of the Reformation, with specimens of their piquancy, tact, faithfulness, zeal, grotesqueness, and impertinence. The great French preachers of the 17th and 18th centuries are in possession of an exclusive chapter, and examples of the style of Bourdaloue, Bossuet, and Massillon are placed before the reader, whilst to move them half-a-dozen of smaller reputation, short biographies are accorded. Nor are the grand masters of the British pulpit forgotten. The devices of American back-woods Evangelists, in order to arrest the attention of their uncouth audiences, form a most striking and amusing portion of "The Curiosities of the Pulpit.' The remarks of the author throughout the volume are made with tact, good-feeling, and discrimination, and give all along a conviction that he is speaking of what he knows and understands; and they add much to the charm of a volume which is as pleasant and engrossing as it is full and suggestive.

Dr. Lee, true to his well-known sound principle that Conservatism and Catholicity should go hand in hand, publishes his Sermon preached on the Twelfth Anniversary of the A.P.U.C. He entitles it The "Sour Grapes" of Disunion, (Hayes) and embodies in it an expression of the principle in question in the following practical passage. All Reunionists should obtain and preserve this Sermon: