Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

294 The True Basis of Re-union.
laid aside. That creed must be adopted and
as it
accepted, without addition or subtraction,
was formally promulged.
2. The decisions, decrees, and declarations
of the seven (Ecumenical Councils must be the
alone basis of Corporate Re-union.
But before any such basis of agreement could
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be accepted, that is before the British Churches
could be received to treat for Re-union with
Orthodoxy ; 1, all doubts as to their sympathy
with Calvinism, and Lutheranism, and Liberal
Protestantism, must be frankly and voluntarily
removed by acknowledged authority. 2. Se
condly, the fact of the inefficiency
of the form
and substance of Episcopal and Presbyterial
ordination at the Reformation-period of British
Church History, must be amply and plainly
brought
though
out. Here it should be remarked that
the Orthodox Churches allow the suffi
ciency of Western forms, the largest portion
of Western Christendom disputes the sufficiency
of the Anglican form of 1549. On this
point,
and its kindred details,
all doubt must be re
and those more immediately interested
moved ;
must remove the doubt.
While, in the meantime, therefore, the hope
ful, the anxious, the learned, and the high-inposition
must carefully prepare the minds of
devout Englishmen which we here solemnly
in GOD S Name charge them to do for acknow-