The Church's Creed Or The Crown's Creed? A Letter To Archbishop Manning (1869) (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: scended to have recourse to any subterfuge that you would have condemned in him, but would have confessed yourself answered. Allow me, therefore, for the time being, to personate your Anglican friend: conceive that it is he who speaks: imagine him accredited to speak in the name of all those whom you have addressed through him, as well as his own, and to rejoin as follows:? " I might admit every word that has fallen from you on the power exercised amongst us of the Church of England by the Crown in Council, without being the least obliged to follow you to your deductions from it, for this simple reason, that' two blacks don't make a white.' There has been, and is, too much of the ' Crown in Council' by half, if all that I hear is true, in your Communion as well as our own. In my humble opinion, we may fairly claim to have learnt our lesson from you, to have copied the example which you set us in our infancy, and to have faithfully followed out your own principles, according to the circumstances in which we were placed. I will not inquire whether, in virtue of the well-known Sicilian monarchy, the descendants of King Roger have not, or at least might not- have, exercised the same authority ' in all causes, and over all persons, ecclesiastical as well as civil,' by favour of the Pope, that the descendants of Henry VIII. have ever succeeded in exercising, in spite of the Pope : but answer me this one question honestly. The creed which you and the Archbishop of Canterbury recite still in common at each celebration of the Lord's Supper, is it the Church's Creed or the Crown's Creed ? I will tell you the grounds which have convinced me irrevocably that it is the latter. I have read somewhere, and seen the original authorities cited at length in proof of it, that this is its history. ...