Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

1636 ond 1866. 12T
"
They agree/ lie writes at vol. i., p. 207, of
Clarendon s State Papers,
"
in all the doctrine
of the Trinity, and Incarnation and true deity
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of our Blessed SAVIOUR ; in the points of
Providence, predestination, justification, neces
sity of good works, co-operation of freewill with
the grace of GOD. They admit the first four
general councils, the three authentic Symbols of
the Apostles, Nice or Constantinople, and of
St. Athanasius, as they
Roman, dhurch ;
arc received in the
thcv reverence the Primitive
,
Church and unanimous consent of the ancient
fathers, and all traditions and ceremonies which
can be sufficiently proved by testimony of
antiquity ; they admit a settled Liturgy, taken
out of the Roman Liturgy, distinction of orders^
bishops, priests, and deacons,
in distinct habits
from the laity ; and divers other points, in
which no transmarine Protestants do agree."
Thus is learnt how faithful a statement of
the position of the Church of England Father
Leander made. Notwithstanding the depreda
tions of the Reformation, and the unbridled
licence which many had been glad to witness
and participate
in ; enough remained, then as
now, to mark cff with a division-line strono-~
and easily distinguishable, the ancient National
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Church (altered in some of its relations and
modified in certain details of its
practical
polity), from the Calvinistic and Lutheran