A Statement Relating to Facts Which Have Been Misunderstood; And to Questions Which Have Been Raised, in Connexion with the Consecration, Trial, and Excommunication of the Right REV. Dr. Colenso (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.1867 Excerpt: ... METROPOLITICAL JURISDICTION. 35 the duty, to try my Suffragan. I said (Judgment, page 4), "If there were reason to think that jurisdiction in a legal sense was not conveyed by the formal instruments which profess to give it, --which is at least uncertain, inasmuch as no constitutional government had been established in Natal at the period of their issue, --there can be no doubt that the Church, after long and careful deliberation, resolved upon the appointment of Metropolitans over Colonial Churches, and sent me out in that capacity; or that the Crown co-operated with the Church in such proceeding, and gave its full sanction--of whatever value that sanction may be--both to the establishment of the office, and to the appointment of the individual who holds it; or that the Bishop recognized both the office and the jurisdiction, and elected the Metropolitan as his judge, in accepting his Letters Patent; or that he bound himself by a solemn oath to render due obedience to the See of Capetown, and the Bishop thereof; or that he has repeatedly, throughout his episcopate, as has been proved by the documents put in at the commencement of this trial--even on a charge of supposed heresy preferred against him some time ago, by two of his own Clergy--submitted to the judgment of his Metropolitan; or that, in the letter which he has requested may be considered as his defence, he has acknowledged that he stands in the relation of a Suffragan Bishop to the Metropolitan of this Province, of which he admits me to be the Metropolitan, with the powers and authority of that office." Next as to the Sentence. I should not myself have drawn up the sentence in the form in which it appears. I employed J egal advisers to do so, in consequence of the language of the Judicial Committee ...