Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

The Exigency of Truth. 17
his words put
out of the Communion of the
Eoman Church, and possibly even died in that
condition, and is nevertheless admitted to be a
Saint. That when he writes to Popes he calls
them his brethren, thus :
Cornelius, greeting."
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Cyprian to his brother
Eoman Catholics would
do well to bear always in mind that every
quotation which they make from the Fathers is
judged of in quite a different manner by
Anglicans from the way in which those of their
own Communion regard it. And Anglicans
ought certainly always to remember that there
is a view of the Unity of the Church with which
the Pope is very intimately connected, that is
universal in all approved writers from the fourth
century downwards.
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If, then, we are ever to come together, this
can scarcely be by our ignoring what is truly
Divine in the Eoman system, nor by Rome
insisting on our accepting what is only human
in it. The accretions have come to assume such
a magnitude that they utterly obscure the
primitive beginnings of it. And yet these very
additions have come to be proposed as the
sine qua non of intercommunion. If S. Cyprian
could, after Pope S. Stephen had pronounced the
restoration of Basilides, declare in an African
synod, and carry the synod with him, that re
storation to be void, it seems hard that the only
terms of our restoration to Unity should be
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