Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
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"that by, the ministry of GOD S Word he may
receive the benefit of Absolution," much less is
she committed to the act of a single Bishop.
Rather this Society recalls to our minds what
we would fain forget, that there is a very grave
difference between the Anglican Church and
that of the United States, and that it is verv /
desirable that before any closer union is formed
with the Church in the United States, what it
has omitted from the Prayerbook should be
restored.
The commendatory letter of Archbishop
Howley is of so much importance, as shewing
the animus with which an Anglican Bishop was
sent to Jerusalem, that I reprint it.* The
English Church was indeed neither consulted
o
nor implicated in what was the act only of
individual Bishops. But the letter shows that
even those Bishops would not have concurred
in the measure, could they have foreseen how
their intentions would have been set at nought.
*
I have retranslated Bishop Blomfi eld s Greek trans
lation of the Archbishop s letter, as being the document
actually sent to the Eastern Orthodox Bishops. The
original letter of the Archbishop, as well as the translation,
" were published in a Statement of Proceedings relating to the
establishment of a B shopric of the United Church of Eng
land and Ireland in Jerusalem. Published by authority."
"
They were republished in The Bishopric of the United
Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem Considered,
by James K. Hope, D.C.L., 1842."