A Collection of Papers Connected with the Theological Movement of 1833 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Some account of the Churchman's Manual. No inconsiderable portion of our time at the Conference at Hadleigh was occupied in revising the Tract entitled "The Churchman's Manual." As this was the first " Tract" systematically put forth to meet the exigencies of " the Times;" as its preparation apparently gave rise to the series known by that designation; and as it is the only Tract, which was submitted to and received the approval of all immediately concerned in promoting the Theological Movement of 1833, it will be at once interesting, and not without importance, to annex it to the foregoing statement. And as the care bestowed upon the preparation of that Tract, probably, exceeds that which any other Theological publication in the English communion has received for a very long time, an account of it will not be undeserving of record, for those who are interested in ecclesiastical matters. It will serve also to show, that the foundation of the Movement in 1833with which only the late Mr. Rose was connectedwas laid with all the care and circumspection that reason could well suggest; and thus much is due to his memory. The object of " The Churchman's Manual" was to supply a defect in the public instruction of the Church, which in other times has been the subject of lament among her sons ; namely, by affording information as to the source and grounds of the authority by which the ministers of God act, in speaking in God's name, and in administering the Sacraments on His behalf: that is to say, whether the authority is from Heaven, or of men ? and if from Heaven, by what channel conveyed ? It is true that in the preamble to the Ordination service, and in her Articles,and especially when these are compared with one another, and taken together,all this is plainly...