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THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. §7
3d. There is no such right in any Church as that
of excommunication in the absolute sense. The highest
right of punishment in any Church is that of suspension
(until penitence allows the return of the offender), and
then only in the case of individuals. It can never be
exercised by one Church toward another. This is the
doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, as expressed in the Rubric prefatory to the Order for the
Administration of the Holy Communion and in the 33d
article.
4th. The true state of the case is this. The Church
of Rome never had any canonical or lawful authority
over the Church of England. The influence which
that Church exercised for a period, in the ecclesiastical
and secular affairs of England, was obtained altogether
by usurpations which depended upon various circumstances in the history of the times. This is understood
by the objectors as well as the respondents; and Protestant Episcopalians think no more than the objectors
of the excommunications of the Pope of Rome beyond
his own diocese, i. e., the city of Rome and a small tract
around it in Italy. Now the Church of England was
always a regularly organized Church by itself, and could
not possibly become a sect or schismatical, unless it
could separate from itself, which is impossible. In the
light of the Reformation it proceeded to reform itself;
and as one item in this reformation, it discarded the
usurpations of the Roman Church; it refused to allow
that foreign Church any longer to interfere or have a
hand in its concerns; it cut or broke off its connection
and correspondence with that Church. It never destroyed itself; it simply reformed or changed some cir-
| Title | The comprehensive church |
| Creator | Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard) |
| Publisher | Appleton |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000091 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. §7 3d. There is no such right in any Church as that of excommunication in the absolute sense. The highest right of punishment in any Church is that of suspension (until penitence allows the return of the offender), and then only in the case of individuals. It can never be exercised by one Church toward another. This is the doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, as expressed in the Rubric prefatory to the Order for the Administration of the Holy Communion and in the 33d article. 4th. The true state of the case is this. The Church of Rome never had any canonical or lawful authority over the Church of England. The influence which that Church exercised for a period, in the ecclesiastical and secular affairs of England, was obtained altogether by usurpations which depended upon various circumstances in the history of the times. This is understood by the objectors as well as the respondents; and Protestant Episcopalians think no more than the objectors of the excommunications of the Pope of Rome beyond his own diocese, i. e., the city of Rome and a small tract around it in Italy. Now the Church of England was always a regularly organized Church by itself, and could not possibly become a sect or schismatical, unless it could separate from itself, which is impossible. In the light of the Reformation it proceeded to reform itself; and as one item in this reformation, it discarded the usurpations of the Roman Church; it refused to allow that foreign Church any longer to interfere or have a hand in its concerns; it cut or broke off its connection and correspondence with that Church. It never destroyed itself; it simply reformed or changed some cir- |
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