death to be remembered and named of the priest at divine service; but never to be invocated or called upon."-2 B. vii. 2.

43. "Thus you see that the authority both of Scripture and also of Augustine, doth not permit that we should pray to them."Ibid.

44. "To temples have the Christians customably used to resort from time to time as to most meet places, where they might ... receive His holy sacraments ministered unto them duly and purely."-2 B. viii. 1.

45. "The which thing both CHRIST and His apostles, with all the rest of the holy fathers, do sufficiently declare so."-Ibid.

46. "Our godly predecessors, and the ancient fathers of the Primitive Church, spared not their goods to build churches."Ibid.

47. "If we will show ourselves true Christians, if we will be followers of CHRIST our MASTER, and of those godly fathers that have lived before us, and now have received the reward of true and faithful Christians," &c.-Ibid.

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come unto the material churches and

temples to pray. whereby we may reconcile ourselves to GOD, be partakers of His holy sacraments, and be devout hearers of His holy Word," &c.—Ibid.

49. "It [ordination] lacks the promise of remission of sin, as all other sacraments besides the two above named do. Therefore neither it, nor any other sacrament else, be such sacraments as Baptism and the Communion are. -2 Hom. ix.

50. "Thus we are taught, both by the Scriptures and ancient doctors, that," &c.-Ibid.

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51. "The holy apostles and disciples of CHRIST. . . the godly fathers also, that were both before and since CHRIST, endued without doubt with the HOLY GHOST, they both do most earnestly exhort us, &c. that we should remember the St. Paul crieth unto us after this sort. . . . Isaiah the Prophet teacheth us on this wise. . . . And the holy father Tobit giveth this counsel. And the learned and godly doctor Chrysostom giveth this admonition. But what mean these often admoni

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tions and earnest exhortations of the prophets, apostles, fathers, and holy doctors?"—2 B. xi. 1.

52. "The holy fathers, Job and Tobit."-Ibid.

53. "CHRIST, whose especial favour we may be assured by this means to obtain," [viz. by almsgiving]—2 B. xi. 2.

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54. "Now will I show unto you how profitable it is for us to exercise them [alms-deeds]... [CHRIST's saying] serveth to prick us forwards. . . to learn. . . how we may recover our health, if it be lost or impaired, and how it may be defended and maintained if we have it. Yea, He teacheth us also therefore to esteem that as a precious medicine and an inestimable jewel, that hath such strength and virtue in it, that can either procure or preserve so incomparable a treasure."—Ibid.

55. "Then He and His disciples were grievously accused of the Pharisees, because they went to meat and washed not their hands before,... CHRIST, answering their superstitious complaint, teacheth them an especial remedy how to keep clean their souls, . . . Give alms," &c.-Ibid.

56. "Merciful alms-dealing is profitable to purge the soul from the infection and filthy spots of sin."—Ibid.

57. "The same lesson doth the HOLY GHOST teach in sundry places of the Scripture, saying, 'Mercifulness and alms-giving,' &c. [Tobit iv.]... The wise preacher, the son of Sirach, confirmeth the same, when he 6 that says, as water quencheth burning fire,'" &c.-Ibid.

58. "A great confidence may they have before the high GOD, that show mercy and compassion to them that are afflicted."-Ibid.

59. "If ye have by any infirmity or weakness been touched and annoyed with them. . . straightway shall mercifulness wipe and wash them away, as salves and remedies to heal their sores and grievous diseases."—Ibid.

60. "And therefore that holy father Cyprian admonisheth to consider how wholesome and profitable it is to relieve the needy, by the which we may purge our sins and heal our wounded souls."--Ibid.

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61. "We be therefore washed in our baptism from the filthiness

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of sin, that we should live afterwards in the pureness of life."2 B. xiii. 1.

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By these means [by love, compassion, &c.] shall we move GOD to be merciful to our sins."—Ibid.

63. "He was dead,' saith St. Paul, 'for our sins, and rose again for our justification'... He died to destroy the rule of the devil in us, and He rose again to send down His HOLY SPIRIT to rule in our hearts, to endue us with perfect righteousness." -2 B. xiv.

64. "The ancient Catholic fathers," [in marg.] Irenæus, Ignatius, Dionysius, Origen, Optatus, Cyprian, Athanasius,

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were not afraid to call this supper, some of them, the salve of immortality and sovereign preservative against death; other, the sweet dainties of our SAVIOUR, the pledge of eternal health, the defence of faith, the hope of the resurrection; other, the food of immortality, the healthful grace, and the conservatory to everlasting life."-2 B. xv. 1.

65. "The meat we seek in this supper is spiritual food, the nourishment of our soul, a heavenly refection, and not earthly; an invisible meat, and not bodily; a ghostly substance, and not carnal."-Ibid.

66. "Take this lesson . . . of Emissenus, a godly father that thou look up with faith upon the holy body and blood of thy GOD, thou marvel with reverence, thou touch it with thy mind, thou receive it with the hand of thy heart, and thou take it fully with thy inward man."-Ibid.

67. "The saying of the holy martyr of GOD, St. Cyprian."2 B. xx. 3.

Thus we see the authority of the Fathers, of the six first councils, and of the judgments of the Church generally, the holiness of the Primitive Church, the inspiration of the Apocrypha, the sacramental character of Marriage and other ordinances, the Real Presence in the Eucharist, the Church's power of excommunicating kings, the profitableness of fasting, the propitiatory virtue of good works, the Eucharistic commemoration, and justification by a righteousness [within us,]1 are taught

"By inherent righteousness," First Edition.

in the Homilies. Let it be said again, it is not here asserted that a subscription to all and every of these quotations is involved in the subscription of an Article which does but generally approve the Homilies; but they who insist so strongly on our Church's holding that the Bishop of Rome is Antichrist because the Homilies declare it, should recollect that there are other doctrines contained in them beside it, which they should be understood to hold, before their argument has the force of consistency.

§ 12.-The Bishop of Rome.

Article xxxviii." The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England."

By "hath" is meant "ought to have," as the Article in the 36th Canon and the Oath of Supremacy show, in which the same doctrine is drawn out more at length. "No foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm."

This is the profession which every one must in consistency make, who does not join the Roman Church. If the Bishop of Rome has jurisdiction and authority here, why do we not acknowledge it, and submit to him? To say then the above words, is nothing more or less than to say "I am not a Roman Catholic;" and whatever reasons there are against saying them, are so far reasons against remaining in the English Church. They are a mere enunciation of the principle of Anglicanism.

Anglicans maintain that the supremacy of the Pope is not directly from revelation, but an event in Providence. All things may be undone by the agents and causes by which they are done. What revelation gives, revelation takes away; what Providence gives, Providence takes away. GOD ordained by miracle, He reversed by miracle, the Jewish election; He promoted in the way of Providence, and He cast down by the same way, the Roman empire. "The powers that be, are ordained of GOD," while they be, and have a claim on our obedience. When they cease to be, they cease to have a claim. They cease to be, when GOD removes them. He may be considered to remove them when He undoes what He had done. The Jewish election did not cease to be, when the Jews went into captivity: this was an event in Providence; and what miracle had ordained, it was miracle that annulled. But the Roman power ceased to be when the barbarians overthrew it; for it rose by the sword, and it therefore perished by the sword. The Gospel Ministry began in