Prayers for the departed : purgatory, pardons, invocation of saints, images, relics ; some remarks and notes on the twenty-second article of religion / by Eustace T. d'E. Jesse.

  • Jesse, Eustace T. d'E.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Prayers for the departed : purgatory, pardons, invocation of saints, images, relics ; some remarks and notes on the twenty-second article of religion / by Eustace T. d'E. Jesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reject the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, yet neither do we look upon them as essentials of saving health, or legacies of the Church and Apostles, but in a mean as pious opinions fitted for the preservation of peace and unity, neither do we oblige any man to believe them, but only not to contradict them.” Here is evidently meant, as a whole, those Articles which peculiarly affect us, for our opponents cannot truthfully assert that, for instance, we do not hold the first five as absolutely of Faith. As in times past certain Articles were omitted when the danger from certain sects ceased, because they had lost their power of affecting the Church, so may it happen again in the future. The dictum of the learned Judge Stowell is worthy of notice, spoken by him and worded in a legal manner : “ These Articles are not the work of a dark age, they are the production of men eminent for their erudition and attach- ment to the purity of true religion. They were framed by the chief luminaries of the Reformed Church with great care in Convocation. ... It is repugnant to all rational interpretation to contend that the construction ” {i.e., ex- planation) “of the Articles should be left to the private persuasion of individuals.” And when we remember that the declaration that the Articles should be taken “ in the literal and grammatical sense ” was inserted by Archbishop Laud himself, and also that such pious and learned men as Bishops Bull, Hall, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor—not to mention others—could accept them with quiet conscience, we need not hesitate to do likewise. With regard to those deriving so much of their form from the Augsburg Confession, many people require to have their attention drawn to this fact, (i) that the “ Protestantism ”
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