SECT. 6.-The Canon Law of the Church on Fasting Communion considered, in a Review of a recent Treatise on the subject, by the Rev. H. Mr. Kingdon's protest against the "Rigorist " theory, enforced by Mr. Oxenham-an exami- nation of the Canon Law on the subject, (1) as to lay obligation; (2) no authority in the Church of England; (3) at one time a general though not universal custom; (4) now super- II. The whole Eucharistic Service, a pleading of Christ's Sacrifice before God III. First beginning of a change of language about the third century seen in the writings of - IV. The testimony of Scripture as to the na- ture of our Eucharistic service v. Testimony of Scripture, that there was NO oblation of Christ's Body and Blood at the VI. Testimony of early Liturgies and Fathers to the true nature of the Eucharistic Oblation, in comparison with the change of language in the later Liturgies, indicating a gradual diver- gence from the primitive doctrine-As a proof, - 395-6 on earth in the Heavenly Worship II. THE MAN-WARD ASPECT CHRISTIAN COMMUNION. (Concluding Treatise.) SECT. 3.-OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE AND COMMU- NION IN CHRIST, BY THE POWER OF HIS REsur- RECTION, IN THE SACRAMENT OF HIS LAST SUP- PER, THE TRUE BOND OF CHRISTIAN UNITY- THE TRUE "EIRENICON."-Written expressly by Real Unity admits not of compromise or How is this Christian Unity to be attained? But in addition to that command is attached the promise of His Gift of Eternal Life, on the faithful fulfilment of it-The promise twofold: to our immortal souls now-to our bodies after death, at the Resurrection-Our fellowship with Christ in His Incarnation, through His ap- pointed sacraments, and the sustenance of our souls therein by His Spiritual Body and Blood, 401 402-3 But this Heavenly Gift can only be discerned and embraced by faith, with the aid of the Holy Spirit; through Whom, by the Will of the Father, we are brought under the power of Christ's Resurrection-And with the mystery of godliness will work the mystery of iniquity until the end of the world-But though fore- warned of a great apostacy from the faith, the ultimate victory will be with Christ and His Church-The high vocation of the Church is to evangelize the World, and unity with her- self, in fellowship with Christ, is a necessary condition for the fulfilment of her great Mis- sion and duty-" Eucharistic Restoration "* is the means, then, for the attainment of this end-The sustenance of our souls, by all par- taking of the One True Bread of Life, is the 404-5 · 406-7 * This subject has been already treated at length by SUPPLEMENT TO PARTS X. XI. and XII. ordinance, viz., our spiritual union with Him.— and condemned by the Church of England- Serious consequences of the practice - The three features of the system, as taught in the Roman Church stated, viz., Universality, Periodicity, and Formality-the two latter fea- tures now largely practised in our Church— tending to its erection into a permanent ordi- Formal Confession unauthorized in Holy Scripture, and contrary to the order of the Prayer bock-however specious and beguiling, the system is opposed to God's Word, and The solemn warning of St. Chrysostom- concluding with an earnest expostulation from SECT. 4. THE DOCTRINE OF SACRIFICE. The terms "Altar," and "Table of the Lord," synonymous-Definition of Sacrifice, its 423 and the service of men, (Burnt-offering and Meat-offering); 3. Thanksgiving and Praise, (the Peace or Thank-offering)—Each of these Sacrifices fulfilled by Christ, and He alone able to offer any of them acceptably to God Christ's Sin-Offering and Burnt-Offering, made once for all, can never be repeated, but are pleaded by Him now-His Thank-offering is the sacrifice of Praise which He does offer continually, for, and with His Church-Reflection on the worthlessness of all human sacrifices, except in their reference to, and as deriving their efficacy from the One Atoning Sacrifice of Christ-Sacraments, a higher means of grace than sacrifices, either under the law or the Gospel-the one speaks to memory, the other spoke to hope-each having a God-ward aspect of worship, and a man-ward aspect of edification SECT. 5.-EUCHARISTIC SACRIFICE. PAGE · 423, 4 - 425, 6 In what sense is there a sacrifice in the Eucharist, or is it in itself a Sacrifice ?-The question answered by considering it in reference to the threefold aspect of Christ's One Sacrifice -1st. What is done in it as regards His SinOffering, and 2nd., as regards His BurntOffering and Meat-offering-They are pleaded by us in the Eucharist, but cannot be repeated 426, 7 Almsgiving, our "meat-offering," only an accessory sacrifice-3rd. What is done as regards Christ's Peace-Offering-This is the Eucharistic sacrifice which we offer continually through Him-Our Communion Feast becomes Christian Sacrifice" in being our highest united to Christ therein, and partaking of His Sacrifice - 428,9 - 429, 30 Concluding summary-erroneous teaching and superstitious practices of the ultra-Ritualist school - 430, 31 Remonstrance against the designation of the One Sacrifice of Christ as a "continual offering"-Contrasted with the emphatic words, and entire argument of St. Paul to the contrary 433, 4 The "Eucharistic sacrifice," and the sacrificial character of all Christian worship, as maintained in this work, vindicated as the teaching of the Primitive Catholic Church 435, 6 III. CONCLUSION :-CONTAINING A LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM THE LATE REV. DR. SEWELL ON THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT LATELY MANIFESTED IN OUR CHURCH; AND THE QUESTION, HOW IS IT TO BE DEALT WITH? - 436-41 APPENDIX I. Note A. 1st part:-The Primitive doctrine of Eucharistic Sacrifice. 2nd part:-As regarded by the later Fathers. From "Exposition of the Articles," by the present Bishop of Winchester Note B. The "Real objective" theory of Eucharistic Sacrifice. From "The true doctrine of the Eucharist' by Dr. Vogan 442, 3 - 443 A question for consideration raised on the subject, in a letter addressed to him by 'X.' Letters from Dr. Goulburn to the Editor in answer to it A letter also in answer to it from the Rev. J. Le Mesurier, treating fully on the doctrine of Christ's High-Priestly office in Heaven POSTSCRIPT. 454-6 solemn warning to the Church 448 448-50 451-3 Note. This original hymn was inserted at the end of Part III., but it will not be so printed again in a future edition. "Gone Home."-from Dr. Monsell's last "Fight the good Fight of Faith." (Hymn for Ascension-day) 456, 7 poem 457 458 B Anglo-Catholic Principles Vindicated. PART I. AN EXPRESSION OF TRUE SYMPATHY IN THE REVIVAL OF HER CATHOLIC PRINCIPLES, WITH SOME WORDS OF FRIENDLY WARNING, FROM AN AMERICAN BISHOP TO THE ENGLISH CHURCH. * 66 England arise! Thy day of Grace THE times call for great plainness of speech. They are times of confusion and anxiety. On the one hand we have disturbers in the Church, who would remove its very foundations, with Dr. Colenso; on the other, among those who should be "striving together for the faith of the Gospel," there are great divisions of feeling and of purpose. I am convinced that even among good men there is a want of clear thought upon the great questions of the day, and that mischievous men are more mischievous than they mean to be, because they confound terms, and fail to distinguish between the genuine and the spurious in what claims to be Catholic. For myself, having been for many years concerned very little in other things, and having found the historical Church of Christ the most interesting of all objects upon earth, even in its dust and ruins, I may truly say that I have thought night and day upon the restoration of its Unity. I am distressed, therefore, by practical mistakes that tend to retard so blessed a result, and thinking that I see clearly where such mistakes begin, I am anxious, if possible, to point it out to others. Having succeeded, especially with young divines, in explaining some matters which bave much embarrassed them, I have been slowly led to believe that I may do good, to many others, by stating in simple terms the truth which will enable them to discriminate, in these times, between what is sound and what is spurious, in professed Catholicity. The Victorian Epoch will be marked in history as that of a great revival and restoration in the Church of England. But, in reformations, generally, there are evils as well as good things; and in this great Revival of Catholicity, it is not surprising that some, having lost their way, have misled others, and made great confusions. When we speak of Catholicity, let us be understood as using the word in its legitimate sense; as all the world understood it before it became Occidentalized even by Occidentals. It means that Constitution of the Church, and that Profession of Faith, which were recognized, not invented, by the Council of Nicæa, and by the great Councils following; and which were so recognized, as from the beginning and as wholly Scriptural. The use of the word to which, in common with the Easterns, I oppose the usage of all Antiquity, is that which can only be admitted, by conceding that the Latin Churches are the whole of Catholic Christendom, and that the Bishop of Rome is the centre of Unity. But, this is to concede that there was no Catholic Church, for all the primitive ages; because, in those ages, there was no such idea, and because the Oriental Churches, which never had it, are the oldest, as they were for centuries the fore • From "The Criterion," by the Rt. Rev. A. Cleveland Coxe, Bishop of Western New York, (whose "Christian Ballads," and other works are well known to many an English Churchman). New York: Durand. 1866. B most, in Christendom, all the Catholic Councils having been Eastern, in place and character, and in no respect Latin, like the pseudo-Council of Trent. The chief source of the confusions which now exist has been a misunderstanding of this word Catholic, and the thing Catholicity. The words have been so misused that their abuse is the scandal of literature, and they are still so confounded by popular writers, and also by divines, that even learned men, who may not be blessed with analytical powers equal to their other faculties, often add to the confusion by a correct use of the words in one sentence, and a mistaken application of them in another. At last, a party has become visible in the Church which purposely confounds them; a party generated by the mistakes of some and by the craftiness of others, and which threatens to destroy the peace of the Church, if not to uproot much of the good that has been planted among us, during the past quarter-century. Whatever its origin, it is a very mischievous party, and, I am sorry to add, a very unscrupulous one. It browbeats and intimidates; it "rages and is confident;" it overthrows old landmarks; it rails at the Episcopate, and exalts nothing but itself and its friends. 1 Sound and sober men are in the immense majority; but just now there seems no one among them to rise up and rebuke the silliest and shallowest faction ever bred in the Church of England. Hence it claims to have everything its own way: it certainly seems to lead the popular mind, among certain classes in the Church. It conciliates the vain and selfsufficient, and leads captive the imaginative. Their triumphing, however, must be short: the only fear is that in the indignation they will kindle and the re-action they will stimulate, much that is good will perish with so much evil. In this country there is a small but busy class of persons, who have opened correspondences with some of their own sort in England, and who have been active in transferring to totally different scenes and circumstances, a plague that is bad enough where it has some historical pretences for its existence. Our Church is a missionary Church, founded among a new people, and has enough to do in teaching them the fundamentals of Apostolic religion, without 1 See the Christian Remembrancer, London, January and July 1866. exciting and shocking the prejudices of millions, by things indifferent in themselves, and alien to their habits and history. The faction that thus disturbs and hinders the work of the Church is small, but, as I have said, it is busy, and it is working a great deal of mischief, far and near. I am sorry to say the evil is getting headway. The faction boasts, I hope not truthfully, of the countenance and patronage of some who have heretofore enjoyed the confidence of their brethren. It has used the press freely, and is scattering the seeds of discord. I am unwilling to see it grow into importance, for want of being met at the beginning with a little resolution, and disagreeable as it is to incur anybody's ill-will, I feel it to be my duty to resist this party, before it gathers support enough to be formidable. Almost the worst thing that could have been the precursor of a genuine Catholic movement in the Church of England, was such a political blunder as what was called "Catholic Emancipation." That unjust measure, while it disturbed the foundations of the English throne, and admitted a Trojan horse into Society, led the popular mind to a very false view of Romanism, and identified the word Catholic with the cause and with the spirit of the Romish religion. Before this agitation was lulled, the Oxford movement, so called, was inaugurated. I am not too young to have been a deeply interested observer of it, from its beginnings, as I have been, from the most tender age, of all that concerned England and its Church. Beginning in such confusions, and enlisting from the outset men of widely different antecedents and views, it is not to be wondered at that it has lacked unity and consistency from the first. There was yet lingering a class of old divines who kept up the line of the great Caroline doctors; men who knew what Catholicity means, and who stood just where the sons of the Church of England should always be found. But, there was also a younger class, who began to imagine themselves Catholics on purely reactionary principles, "starting aside like a broken bow," and disgusted with principles they had formerly professed. As time went on, a 1 About two years ago somebody caused Tract No. 90 to be republished here, at a time when nobody thought about it, and when it was supposed to be dead and buried. |