Studies in the Roman Controversy (Paperback)

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. 1914 Excerpt: ...far simpler to get rid of Edwardine clergy on that ground, rather than on the ground of marriage. But all the evidence so far goes to show that they were not so regarded; on the contrary, the very fact that an Edwardine priest was deprived for marriage shows that so far his Orders were recognized, otherwise he would have been deprived as a layman, and there is no instance of any Edwardine clergy being so described at their deprivation; they are classed with the rest of the married clergy. So that in this part of the inquiry both positive and negative evidence leads to the conclusion that the Edwardine Orders were recognized; further inquiries will partly modify, but partly confirm that conclusion." 1 With this may be compared the words of the reply of the two Archbishops (Canterbury and York) to the Bull "Apostolicae Curae" in which Anglican Orders were condemned: "While many Edwardine priests are found to have been deprived for various reasons, 1 The Marian Reaction, pp. 109; 110. and particularly on account of entering into wedlock, none are so found, as far as' we know, on account of defect of Order. Some were voluntarily re-ordained. Some received anointing as a supplement to their previous Ordination, a ceremony to which some of our Bishops at that time attached great importance. Some, and perhaps the majority, remained in their benefices without re-ordination--nay, were promoted in some cases to new cures. Pole did not return to England after his exile until November, 1554, and brought the reconciliation to a conclusion in the fifteen months that followed. The principle of his work appears to have been to recognize the state of things which he found in existence on his arrival, and to direct all his powers towards the restoration o...