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Les cartes, pienches, tableaux, etc.. peuvent Atre filmis i des taux de reduction diffirents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour itre reproduit en un seul clichi, il est filmi i partir de I'engle supirieur geuche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'imeges nicessaire. Las disgrammes suivents illustrent le mithode. 1 2 3 32 X 1 2 3 4 5 6 THE RESOLUTIONS •#• OF THE VINCIAL OD CSfcAiW-jST OBEDI&NCE TO The. Ornaments Rubric. B Y A Thus and Loyal Church of England Man, PRICE B CENTS. ®orottt0 : CAXTON PRESS : T. HILL & SON, PRINTERS, COR. KINO AND JARVIS STKKET8. 1881. » THE ^^^olutian^ of the f tavinml ^jjnod AGAINST, OBEDIENCE TO "The Ornaments Rubric," I Those who took any interest in Church matters in 1867 and 1868, will readily recall the agitation which was at that time awakened in the minds of sincere but ill-informed Churchmen, on the subject of Ritualism. An organized campaign was inaugurated among the Low Churchmen of the Diocese of Huron, su])i)orted by their sympathizers elsewhere. The clergy who were not in accord with this movement will be able clearly to recall the feelings of annoyance they experienced at finding their parishes flooded (often by a secret agency which they could not always de- tect), with untrue, exaggerated, and inflammatory papers, containing the most alarming statements of the treacherous and dangerous designs of the High Church clergy. Every effort was made to secure in the various Dioceses such a representation in the Provincial Synod, which was to meet in Sept., 1868, as would secure the adoption of some such legislation as would put a check upon their supposed inten- tion to Romanize the Church. The Churchmen of Toronto, who were perfectly aware of the nature and objects of the attack which was to be made upon them at the Provincial Synod, resolved to meet it in a generous si^irit, and endeavour to disarm the approaching conflict of anything like bitterness. They knew quite well that the Toronto delegation was in their own hands, and that they coidd send as their representatives whomsoever they pleased. With a magnanimity, more generous perhaps than wise, they j)laced the present Dean of Toronto where he has never stood before or since— high on the list of clerical delegates. They sent Dr. Fuller (now Bishop of Niagara), the late excellent Mr. Givens and others who they were quite aware were pledged to the anti-ritual agitation. When the time arrived for the meeting of the Synod, the discussion, which every thoughtful person regarded as sure to be productive of harm, seemed likely to be postponed. The alarming illness of the Metropolitan, Bishop Fulford, filled all minds with anxiety, and his death a few days after- wards, cast for the moment an awe and solemnity over the members of the Synod, in common with the whole commu- nity. Still, the minds of all were filled with the thought of the exciting topic which was to be brought under discussion, and which apparently no consideration of feeling or propri- ety could postpone. The strength of the excitement may be measured by the fact, that as soon as the body of the Metropolitan had been consigned to the grave, one so full of love and gentleness as the late revered Saltern Givens, should have precipitated the debate. How that debate raged for days, it would be as painful as it is unnecessary, to tell. It was marked by very stron^^ feelmg, and the journal affords humiliating proof of the incompetency of the Provincial Synod of that day to desd under such circumstances with the subject. This retrospect is necessary to show the animus out of which its ultimate proceedings grew, and to afibrd additional proof of the worthlessness of its final decision. 6 We hIuiU now proce^nl to examine the cliiuacter and weigh the binding force of that decision itself. 1. The Provincial Synod has repeatedly declared that the Church in Canada is an integral part of the Church of Eng- land. If the Provincial Synod is prepai-ed to abide V)y that declaration, it must be content to accept its consequences. It is one only, out of a considerable number of " Provinces," which make up the Anglican Communion, and one which can hardly be regarded as a very important })art of so great a body, whether we consider the number of its clergy or the extent of their theoloyical and ecclesiastical learninjr, or the wealth, social influence, opportunity of observation or spiritual attainments of its laity, who occupy so power- ful a position in her Synods, yet if the anti-ritual resolu- tion of 18G8 is to be regarded as binding on the consciences of the clergy, it is deay, that the effect of the rough and ready action of this insignificant "part," is, to repeal the law and usage of the '* whole," a law and usage which have existed from time immemorial ; and though for a time the usage was allowed to become obsolete, yet the law itself, after all the struggles' of the Reformation, still exists, and in " perfectly unambigMous language," stands to-day in the very fore-front of eveiy cojjy of the Prayer I^^ok of the English Chui-ch. When the Legislature of a t ;)lony, is acknowledged to have by its own assumj)tion, the power of freeing its inhabitants from the obligation of obeying an Imperial Statute binding upon the whole Empire, then we may be disposed to consider the power of the Synod of a single Province — and that of no very distinguished cliar- aeter — to abrogate the Ornaments Rubric, which has been accepted by the whole Chui'ch, and thus alter the Prayer Book. 2. From this general consideraton we now pass on to 6 lixamine briefly the principles of the Provincial S3'notl itself, as set forward with great solemnity at its first formation, and since continually repeated in its autho- rized Reports. " We acknowledge the Book of Common Prayer and Sacraments, with the 39 Articles of Religion, to be a true and faithful declaration of the doctrines con- tained in Hol3'^ Scripture ;"" and this declaration (as set out in the Prayer JJook) the Synod with great emphasis asserts • that it will transmit to posterity — and then, for unsound reasons, supi)orted by inconclusive arguments, and glaring misquotations, which are the fruit not of dishonesty but ignorance," the said Synod with a most wondrous inconsis- tency proceeds in a hurry and panic to alter in very impor- tant particulars the very Prayer ]3ook which it had just declared to contain a true and faithful declaration of the doctrines contained in Holy Scripture, to every letter of which, every clerical member had declared, ex animo, his unfeigned assent and consent, and which they had just asserted their firm and unanimous resolution to transmit to their posterity. It would be simple dishonesty to try to escape from this ludicrous dilemma by saying that the Reso- lution was against ritual and not against doctrine because, by the confession of all parties, the struggles of la^e years derive all their importance from the fact that ritual symbo- lizes and expresses doctrine. . 3. But we are not yet finished with the *" Declaration." Surely no one ought to understand its proper duties and functions, together with the limits of its power, as well as the Synod itself. Here then are its own views on these points : " It is our earnest desire and determination to con- fine our deliberations to matters of discipline, to the tempo- ralities of the Church, and to such • regulations of order and modes of operation as may tend to her efficiency and ex- 1 tt'iiHioii. " And tlicii it proeeedH to act in a way whieli plainly i-oiitnidictH this "desire and detcM-niination," by pro- ceodinju; to pass ri'solutions on a snhjt'ct entirely beyond the liuiits to whicli, Hccoi'dinj,' to its own statement it resolvetl to eonHnu itself, thus adding a second self-contradiction to the first, and practically proceeding to alter that which it proi)os(>d to h'lnd