The Principles of Divine Service, an Inquiry Concerning the True Manner of Understanding and Using the Order for Morning and Evening Prayer, and for the Administration of the Holy Communion in the English Church. 2 PT. [In 3]. (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. 1857. Excerpt: ... We may safely appeal from Hooker seeking for peace, to Hooker asking after truth; from the heart of the man yearning over the divisions of Christendom, to the testimony of the faithful Priest and Doctor of the Church, handing on the traditions of Catholic Christianity. And the truth is--with all respect for so great a name be it spoken--that the subject of the Holy Eucharist had not been mastered by Hooker in all its bearings: as clearly appears from his attaching little importance to it in its oblationary or sacrificial character; for which he is taken to task even by so moderate a writer as Waterland1. Had he been more fully acquainted with this side of the subject, more especially as it is presented in the Liturgies, he must have acknowledged the necessity of holding to the ancient views and language as to the consecrated but as yet unreceived Elements. Lastly, the view now under consideration finds no real countenance in the formularies of the English Church. Of this a sufficient demonstration, perhaps, has been given in the historical examination of them made in the course of these pages. Even the Second Book of Edward VI., since it recognised the doctrines of the First, cannot be successfully appealed to: and subsequent Revisions did but bring out these doctrines with more distinctness. This is beginning to be admittedm by the more intelligent and candid upholders of the Calvinistic theory. 1 "The Fathers call usually the ministry of the Gospel Priesthood in regard of that which the Gospel hath proportionable to ancient sacrifices, namely, the Communion of the Blessed Body and Blood of Christ, although it have properly now no sacrifice." (See Notes to Keble's Hooker, V. lxxviii. 3.) These words do not absolutely exclude the view of the Eucharist bei...