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OCCASIONAL PAPER, No. V. ■ IS THEBE NOT A CAUSE 7 J The Mtion taken by the Church Association is based upon ttie conviction that, although much has been for some years past done m this Diocese, and throughout Canada, towards educating tAurohmen in Sacerdotal and Saeramentarian views and Eitual- Mtic notions, yet that this work has not gone so far but that bv a stogng and determined effort it may be stayed; and the mem- . of our Church may be brought once more to rejoice in that nmplicity of worship, purity of doctrine, and humble faith in the ^^ work of Christ, which were marks of the Primitive ♦I.. ^^^TJ^ ? deliberate design among a certain party in tt»e Church of Enghmd to subvert the prmcip^es of the KTfoma- tjon^ already been pressed on our notice by the highest au- ttonta^m the Church. In furttier pro6f of tlOs tfere has been ^n^^T^X ^"? V" """^ Canadian capital of Ottawa, this montt, the first of a promised series of Church Tracts, " by Cana- dum Laymen, m which Luther, Zwingle, Mekncthon, Bucer. * the notonous Cranmer," and others— the fathers of the Reform! 1^'^^?^ li as bigamists, adulterer?, drunkard^, &c. ^iS^♦*l^^^^°"^?°"' *^ ^P^ ^i^l< ^ denounced, r *v^ ^thout the guidance of the Church." The story of illf\f.,??*^^®"?**^ ^y *^® accidental discovery of a Bible is cjdled "tks precious Ue 1" and "the period which followed the iiS w if^-^'^T '," ^ ^^^d " ^ •«« w^<% ^ery bght Was the blackness of darkness." Fimdly the o|iwa Ritualists, whwe excesses have akeady led to the apostacy of one of theii clOTgy to Rome, and have driven out of our Church a laree and influential body of Laity, invite their fellow-churchmen to exTt ^^ves to prevent " the so^jaUed Church Association from '^y"8 ^« co urse of the CatMie JRevival, and peroetu- Agar —that is, of " the Blessed Reformation." Jk?S^^ ^^ ^ ^^J?' J^\ ^- "^ ^^ Aasiciation ; and tUiOfiit NMon enough for deaooncing out ozposure of the I, p li r Path of Holiness," immecTte?. after one of t^"*^°^ "/ '7^^ had performed Evening Servicf wal the ' 1 A"'^, '^''^^ on his own responsibility " We W« «^ f, ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ tion took place so far £k as 18?2 tT- ^^'t ^^' ^^^'"^"- books of like kind were Sin/disS^^^^^ *^"*.'?"^' y^^^' only since we exposed the n!tnt« if f^ v f ^f P^"'^«« ^ ^^a* dmVn from the chU^en and tLf « ?,? ^''^J^T ^l ^««« ^^th- been found to be on^in ot cL-b 7^" -^ '• ^'°^ ^'' tinuestobeinlargeXiand T, «i?.K^'?^^^^ ^""^ *^°n- offers this reolv -«'In^nn, ^^V^' *^® ^«^'- Mr. Ford Church As^cStion Usee^TZ" t^'-'^r'T'^''^' '^'^- up, and others ordered" m *^' ''^^^^^ ^" **^^«V«^« -^^^ht are th^^XeSfpri^^^^^^^ °.^ ^^y--" 'bat had sent 1« us ttdCTthf ntm^^^^^^^^ Sif-^r vent. A.1) 1873" TnVi,L i^' ^^''^ion;" and dated, "Ad- muktheSntam of^Sl?- J^" I""'"* trifles which Reformation have become hatfif.Vl M^ !? l. ^'^'^^'^"^ and Protestant Church ofE^lnd^ ./? penrer^ed ears ; and the like terms siStlveoS^^^ «' by Church of fiTe " tITv l^lt^ f*^T ^'^^^ ' ^'**^^"^ ' his series of par^rs now pSin^n ?« v ? ' .^""'^/ ^""*«« **»i« "^ racterizes it as " most dlC^i- " \^ !'' .^^'"^r^hrnan," and cha- name of " ' Amrl^ritnS^ i?^i chummy that many favor the thenaSeofl!^^S.t^'Vat^t?^^ ^'"P^'^-t^ laity rit\ZL7Xr:7ZuI^>T^'^^'^'^ Canadian Cjergj in arresting the insidious poison which a clergyman culpably— though, as h| pleads in mere careless ignorance-was i^tiUing into the minds of children entrusted to his charge, on the very fr5r'*'''/^''^w.^y ^^'^^^' of guarding them from th^ teaching ofRomish Convents and Popish error. The insidious f^''„n?^'T°/'*'^'"f ^/'^'^ "Priests" is more dangerous even than that of convent schools. At a future time we may enter upon the not uninteresting and not unmstructive question of the origin, in this Dibcese, of ' a state of matters so opposed to the general feeling of Chui^h- men throughout its bounds ; but for the present we simply d€- su-etocall attention to the general tendency of the teaching, and to show that under a specious plea for union with the Eomanorthe Greek Church, the process of assimilating our principles and practices to those of these bodies has been com- plated '' ° '*™^'^ °'' ^^^"^ extent little contem- We desire not to attack individuals, butihe system whicli has been inaugurated. We care not Avhether this edti(iation has been commenced by a -^priest," who leaves it to his guUds, con- ^tjTl I' ^""^ sisterhoods, to bring to perfection the see.l which he has sown ; or whether he himself completes the work to which 18 due the chorister, monk, or sister 6f mercy. It in no way lessens the pain experienced by the T)arent who sees his t^J^r^l "^T" ^r^^s?^"* religion, to be told that she has gone further on the path to Rome than Mras contemplated.- . that the clergyman whose ministrations she attended desired to halt at a place somewhat more distant from this goal : but that the more advanced of his congregation, educated so far by him refused to res,t short of a complete Romish service under an Anglican name, and that in such company his child has wandered We rejoice that the evil has not become so deep-rooted but that we may hope to prevent its further growth. But if the struggle IS to be successful, the faithful members of the Church must face the foes within her household, and not be mere look- ers on at the battle. . Again let us urge the necessity and duly . -esmmj coiKid^ wTiatisgomgonaFtfie present day in the reliflious world. Churchmen were warned of the dancer their daughters were exposed to by the teachings of sectarian and convent scho^. A Qhurch school was accordingly owanized. where under Episcopal and Clerical oyersight they wnld rely on ^eirchildwnbemg protects frpm all false teaching. Yet/itis m this yeiy ^hool that tfie. responsible Clerical 3«jiin««ir i, found xntroducmg a work which in its whole teSiSSf ^ the very root of Protestant arid Scriptural taX^L?^? ? but for the interi-erence of a parent,^* la^^l.™?„J^^' contmued in use up to the present it^ tTw ^tl tw assured has ceased to be used as the sXol TexTwT. assure Churchmen it has not. ceaseS to K XS^ ^{^-Tl^ ascertained that it is one of the special booSi3!!in ^® ^r mand, alike in Church Depositori^^^ b^JecSC^^^L^^ '^'' A ghmce at its contents y^Bho^hoVL:X^t^^^Z Anti-Eeformation views of the Ottawa EituJista «..5 i. TS?r*?rrr '' ^^ -trodu^tioi^^'ui^totT Toronto Church School as "A Key to the Prayer Ck'C totel ignomice of Its extreme Anti-ProtesUnt Zr^r* M the beginni^, Mr. BJunt clearly discloses the chan^r of 4 mon Prayer] was adopted, but with some important chan^ ' TV/ ^T' ^?^t^P' * ^^ amount of a«-^J^t 4^ ;rfter the pattern which God Himself revealed to S onM^^t Smai, to IsaiaJ and Ezekiel in their visions, and, ZTb ku to St. John in the Book of the Eevelation. If we went I! X/J? chiefly for the^sake of being teught by t^e ^^f'S Scnpture and th^preaching of sermons, we ne^^Uttie ^t! mony ; but the Prayer Book principle is, that we go t W to wo^hip God, and m worship of (L mLt necessity ^""o/a hyhlyeerenmtal character, whether offered by Angelsandre- deemed Samtsm heaven, or by ourselves on earth. ^^ thTeeJ^. ^^^''1^'*'^"'*^"^^^^^ o"8^* therefore to iK. tradition from preceding generaiions, such as turning to the Altar at the Creed, . . . uting the gign of the Cross howZ monlton^Wif-* * * v ' -«hould always be said in a ^fSr ^T** ^' ^ ®^® uniform musical note." (») *vA?«f "'^''^'^' • •. • • • It is a very ancient and ft vjiy proper ceremony to incline the head at the first half of this hymn, as a humble gesture which recogniws the glory of ''At tion of th The prayer is- upon His commend parted, at iutercessu of prevaiJ used by tl can trace ' drawing c profess ou taiiuhgth( posed to e. the headin living and "Fes 4a3's by Pi il Manag«r is ingsiziket at ; and which, —might hav^ •k we are now l)ook ; we can 8t. "We have ale and in de- r bookaelleM. it reflects the ^ ; and how use into our Br Book," in laracter, At ■racter of his ok [of Com- ant changes, illy as to de- ' which the ' drive out of ^ the teach- He thus in- is the chief mial is used, les on Mount ibove all, to nt to church Qg of Holy B Uttle cere- go there to "ily be of a igels and re- ^ the cere- J to be de- nmtousby to the Altar '088, hotoing mcient and tst hiOf .of « gloij of God in three Persons, and which foUows the example set by the Holy Angela when they veil their faces with their wings as thev smg to the glory of the Trinity in the vision of Isaiah." (D ' The Psahns are to be said (in mongtone) by the minister and the congregation alternately." (2) There is no doubt, how- ever, that the whole of the Litany, as it is now used, was often sung at a faldstool in front of the altar as at present, and that the l^cession itself usually ended with the singing of the latter part ot the Litany in the same manner." (3) "He also arranged other Processions for public use: but> Henry VIIL would not aUow their publication, and they have now been lost. (0 ^ » ^ " Unction, however, had been used from the time of the Apostles, and probably it had always been used mth the sign of theUrosH ; so tJiat its disuse was a great innovation upon the custom of the Church." W • -^ "The particular form in which ' special confessions ' are to ' bo made is not laid down in the Prayer Book, but the followincj is commonly used :— For these and aU my other sina which I can- not now remember, I humbly beg pardon of Almighty God, and grace to amend J and of you, my father, I ask penance, counsel and absolution'' («) Here, as elsewhere, the reader may recog- nize not only the same teaching, but the same words as in " The Path of Holiness." , • "/^ ?''* *^' passport to the other world ivill bo the absolu- tion of the Priest attending upon Him." 0) The Praysr for the Church MiHtant— " The object of Uiis prayer IS— 1. To commend to God the gifts which are then lyinir upon His Table, both 'alms' and 'oblations;' and also, 2, To commend to Ilim the whole body of the Church, living and de- parted, at a time when the oflfering up of the Eucharist makes intercession a special duty of love, and gives to it a special hope ot prevailing power— such intercessions at such a time have been used by the Church of Christ from the earliest ages to which we can trace Christian customs, and they are one chief means toward drawing closer that Communion of Saints in which we so often profess ourMicf^^^e^diaevAlheftdiag- of aispmyercon^^ taming the phrase ' Church militant here on earth,' l^b^n sup- posed to exclude the depaded ; Imt the very prayer from %hich thelieadmg (or 'oremus'J is taksn, mentions all tfui faithful living and departed, Just as the present prayer does.^'W " F^tivals "-« They are also distinguished from ordinary ^ys by Proper Hymns and by changes in the color of the Altar i G^^ring, and THE SACERDOTAL VESTMENTS 7. . these latter ohservances form ««../ Jw- ^'^oiAijt^NTS ; hut proprieties of ChuZ'Jtol W>/ a'^ '"'f'^V "'^'^^''^'^ <^ '^« in Sie Church of^i'^^^^^^^ " '^^^ «'/^-^^««' universal I^ thi. generJ statemonl^" mf Swio "j-,?'"!? ^.'8i«» with connect, the Daily Office with ^^^dy ^^t^^^^^ a)P.180; («)p.m ; (8)p.l85; (Op:81 ; (6) p;82. 'NTS; Imt ention to the nt universal * T/ig inven- ling of our 6 " ! ! ! (2) ^the day oh «t's Cross to at Jenisa- his Anglo- Jh supereti- y names of ach "false rry peop/e, teaching is »g extract : Vssiblyjbe lan cannot the child, dissenting 1 with the iion frgm 8 perceive into one ' outward lip of the Y came to sctrine as ' perused '^er in the ?ins with st ritoL of 9ek, and Lord By a ladder ' the day the cele- bration of which it is borrowed ; and tl^s it is a link between all the praises and prayers of matins, and the great Sacnfire on whose mngs they are carried up to Heaven" ,0) ' " The Lord's Prayer is said here . ., . with a special object. . . - . Ihe celebrant uses it for himself .. ... as a prevaHine intercession connected with his particular duty, that he mav be ioxmd not unworthy to represent his Lord, the Chief Priest of the Church, m tlie offering of the Holy Eucharist. It should be heard and mentally joined in by the people with the same special object, smce the offering to be made is made by them in coh^ S* ^?tor " S^"* ^^**^^'' "''*'' "'''"''* ^' '^''* ^"^ ''' •^'■'"*' ^^ mo t1^**^ ^v® ^^^"^^"^ ^^"^ celebrant again takes his place before tne lable of the Lord, for the purpose of making a solemn cffer- ing of the bre^d and wine which are afterwards to be conseci3sif .... . UntU the time of the offertory it is customary rthe custom being significant, but not essential,) t» keep the bread ' and wine standing on a credence-table, at the side of the chancel and not upon the Lord's Table., This custom, (or any other bv which the elements are brought to the altar a^ the moment when th^y are to be offered) makes tl^e oblation of the ' elements ' a plain and importaiit ceremony, as it has always been from the tune of the Primitive Church. The bread is first placed upwi the altar, then a little water is added to the wine (in accol-dice^ with a practice as old as the Church itself), to signifv the umon of the Divine and Human Natures in Christ, and as a lively memorial of Him who ' did shed out glHis most precious teAJttrm'' ^"^ ^^°'''^ ' '''''^ '^'* "^"^^ '' "^'^ P^<^ ^ . 1' THE SACRIFICE " ! ! !-" Our Lord's words, ' This do Z/^*"!r ?"^''-^'^^'' '^'^^*' ' ^^^ ''ff^^'f^ « memoHal of me before tU Lord your God: The word here translated i do' in mre than fifty places in ihe HolyBiUe, is translated ' offerJ and thm rnMiui' do sacrifice.: as in Jer. xxxiii. 18. The Holy Eu- chanat is therefore consecrated before'it is partaken of : and the cmsecraiwn is a memorial offering or sacrifice of that which the oreaa and wine became by consecration— the Bo.?« ^T^ ^^^« ^^^ « thus near to thoughtslxd wo4 alriZ Him .i'^^'^iJ ^? "^^^ ^^ «««*^>^««> those of the man who is Sod "ii ''"'" ^'^^ "^^ ^^°°d «e S Deacons who a^ offidaUy prtTnt Thi •^'' f?""'^ *^^ r^AurcAe., the other Gommun£^t« «.. • '" "'"^^ ''^r/^a^ef^ first, the Choir, as eSnate'LTw in thT""^' '^l"' the me^i, and lastly the women " c^)'^''''^^'^ »^ <^^« service, then 'i?ea; P re^^nc '\ roUr T.ff ^^w It^'^ ^o recognize the --commumcaSrrseDaratelv rl'i^^ t*"®*? rratoration each- VThe body^f ^tfS^j^3 J^?"f *VV^^^* J^« ^^ceives is and « Ae blood of o^ S J^i^^^f ^ »?^^'" ^'' *^««'' thee;' «o ^/m^ notxcmei^l^fiT^ CSinst, ^ch was shed for , vnutno excuse 18 left for ignorant unbelief:' W i and loine God in the hod of -our i6lemn part ' people 171 hero as- the srd, "whose Ity. -- Hat words andj lements oj liing signi- Is and acts hi they say Little Of ty.' '\ however ixu nearer 18 near to gestures, Blood are * 'cr up for adise, or thej/ will I will to Blood of 3sts and egidated e order ; ice, then sons to mize the jives is >r thee,' hfidfor \ . " Whwi aU have received, the pemain* of the consecrated :\jl«ment« an cdVMed with a veil, that is, * a fair* or beavtiful "f^fin^th,' in f4verent tojcen that they are as much the Body mdBlocUof Cltrist when standing upon the Altar after Com- ' mnion, as when they were being administered to the Communf- c«^"0) Praters and Sacrificb fob t^b Dead !— " The Holy IwihaiiAi is essenUall%,a SQ^ificial act, (^ed^p for M England aa set forth in w^^ °^ *^e Church of which have thefroSyL^J'^ewlT- '?f ^^^^ ^^ teaching of the ChurchTi:Tr''*''' t^0 doctoae and pressed on and on n th^r T?^^ ^ ^'^^ number of his feleigy by the hand that should h^f 3 '^ 'mchecS and wheh at Wh ?he ^Z Tlu'^^t ^^""^ ^* *^^ o^^^; upbn his mind ?he Bi«hT^i ^^ ''*'^^^°'' ^*^ ^""y ^^^^ ~tSdS4:^^^^^^^ no- gladl^^have ^ , himself powerless to supnrl Zir t^ • '"^ mid-career, found return ti « the old paths "Tnwi ,''^««' ?' *<> compel their Prelate, within tKavs of hJ^" °^^^*"«^°^y «<^n8 did this that ov'erhung the tw an^ t'Tt' "^T" "^^'^ *^« «"«i« gladly he woSld have S.v? -"^f *®' 7^'" ^ ^*«' tow the We which w^t^ tew .T? ^ * ^'^ ^ff«^n<> P^^POse, It were with his dvina hwk • fPeafetn- Thus clearly, as Christian life This Wi Confession into a necessity of lieving thai private i^/""? '^^f^^ ^ ^^^'""^^ ^^^bit of^b^ Priest is insufficient. Tnl T? ^^.."^'^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ H^h ".an cannot Sfurf of pa^^^^^^^^ T''^^'' ^ « P^^««^- to God in the H^y S^ament ri^f^ cannot dmw near of nnmturilSLr^^' '}\ V^f^it is a system fraught, oith emUomM*^L^/r^''^'*'^ dnnMng, of the substitution of coSln"^; \'^ '^^^^^ng «hort heart to God tL» ,w ?• *^ ^^ ^^'^ ^^^ opening of the and wife, fitherind cE^ ., ^Sf ^-^^^ ^®*^®^ t««^nd ^/'«^ «.a4 cupula ^tnlc^'':^Z "''1'^\ 'fr^for regards the person to whomTSL^ ^'^*^ ^^ lastly, as watched sAm of ISv But T "" '^'t' '' ^^^^^ ^'^ * cei^sitates the terriblH^U of fai^nL 7 ,T<>'^. than this, it ne- with siw of uMkln^i ;/ i^ ^^""g "^'^t «"»' specially r v " ^;:T^T^ "t^^^g go' ^' ^t i ioes even tendintf to^ h« of U„ been v,^ p^S^ b^ttet^;;?. T """^ a)p:«-B, ■ fi'.fc-ttU. M^a 11 wise WiX^f r ^J"""^ Jow entirely this accords witt the iri84T!& f\ ^^ F^'^^P Blomfield, who, in his charge n 1842, speaks of Auricular Confession as "a practice utterlv l^7t^.t^%^'^''!^\S''''''^' ^"« '''^^ most ?3 ttr' S^ ^l ^°'^' ^'*.*^® '°"«^« °^ unspeakable abomina- ii o.,; n^T '^ "^^ '"' ^^?* ** *^®^^^ *i°^« when clergjTnen our Pn,. • ""T ^i* '^™^^°« *^^ Scriptural exhortation in sTonS Tr'°w®,T?5' ^^*° ^ «^«««« ^^' ^™^S the Confes- sional, Bishop Wilberforce tells us that he had fou^d it in his SeCpT^ experience as a bishop, the veiy source of' foulesr f7oX 4ri ^T"""^^ '^^^.''^ *^« minds iferiest and reopie. JSo honjest man can misunderatand themvitation in tolrrr^^"?'''.^ any who are troubled in conscience, h«^,.^. •"^''*^' for comfort and counsel. The same is tlie practice in every Protestant' Church; and is utterly at vanance with any idea of the confessional. ^ Again, as regards "Ritual," Bishop WUberforce says. 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