Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

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Introductory Essay.
doing the work of the Roman Church which he
of what
assails, and dreaming that the rejection
has been for a thousand years the expression
of
our faith as to the mode of the existence of Al
mighty GOD would be the substructure of
this new building of a portion of His Church.
Blind leader of the blind ! If any should, in
default of more accurate information, be shaken
by his confident statements, it is morally cer
tain that, with the exception of a few not very
wise individuals, they would not begin the
enlargement of their faith by the abandonment
of that which has, all their lives through, been
the expression of it, as to one very central
truth ; and even while they believe (as the
Council of Florence said) that the Greek and
Latin Fathers under different terms held one
and the same faith, they w T
ould not drop the
term which expresses the Eternal Procession
of the HOLY GHOST from the FATHER and the
SON, or from the FATHER through the SON.
For such an act would probably involve in
them the disbelief of the Eternal Procession of
the HOLY GHOST altogether. The Greeks, re
taining the ancient unenlarged form of the
of Anglican ordinations." P. 71. But it has been shown
that the precedent upon which our priests have been reordained
was grounded, in part at least, on the lying
fable of the Nag s Head Ordination, and so has need to be
reconsidered. (See Haddan s note on Bramhall s works,
T. 3, p. 114, ed. Anglo-Oath.)