What Is the Meaning of Subscription?; A Question, Respectfully Proposed to the Ministers and Members of the Church of England - Softcover

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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. 1841. Excerpt: ... with his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, continued on various subsequent occasions, which will be found below. And here I beg to remark, that no one can object more decidedly than myself to the common practice of publishing correspondence between individuals on matters relating merely to themselves; thus appealing to public opinion on questions with which the public has properly no concern. The present is a very different case; it relates strictly to a public question, one affecting the whole Church, and indeed all Christians in the nation; namely, the extent of the obligation implied by those tests which the Church requires from all its ministers--the interpretation of its Confession of Faith. The letters of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, are formal answers from the Spiritual Head of the Church, to a stranger requesting an authoritative opinion on Subscription. They prove, from the highest official authority, that the Church can neither speak nor deliberate on such a point. The question, moreover, has become one of public discussion in Parliament, where it had not been debated for seventy years. My own case and difficulties were twice mentioned in that discussion; and the true force and meaning of the speeches then delivered, the nature of my own difficulties, and the embarrassment of the whole question, in the present state of the Church--increased, as it is, by the discordant opinions delivered in Parliament in May last--can only now be understood by laying open the hardship and perplexity entailed on an individual, who has vainly endeavoured, for thirteen years, to ascertain what Subscription means. It will readily be seen that the publication of the following letters might long ago hare materially altered my position, with reference to t...

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