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THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 149
into the opinions of the first English Reformers, and
their connection with the Continental divines. It was
also the occasion of a very careful comparison of the
respective dates or periods when the English Articles
and Formularies were first arranged, and when the
Calvinistic and Arminian systems were first generally
agitated. The controversy has of late years almost entirely ceased; and it is now very generally conceded
that the Articles of the English Church (with which, in
fact, the controversy is mainly concerned) were framed,
not with a reference to the systems known afterward
distinctively as Calvinism and Arminianism, but with
a reference to previous systems maintained in the
Churches of the East and of the West prior to, and at
the date of, the Reformation. Their object was primarily to elucidate the ancient doctrines of the Christian Church, and to expose many errors of the Church
of Rome; and not to decide upon questions which had
hardly begun to be controverted by the Continental
Protestants.
Not to enter upon a discussion of the sense of the
Articles, we wish to state that there always have been,
in the Church of England, both Calvinists and Arminians of every grade in full communion with that Church
and in the discharge of its highest offices, clergymen
and laymen; and that their respective systems have
been very freely and extensively treated and disputed,
without subjecting any of the controversialists to discipline. Now, in the Church of England, every clergyman is obliged to subscribe the Articles " willingly, and
ex animo, and acknowledge all and every Article to be
agreeable to the Word of God." At the same time each
| 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 | 00000153 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 149 into the opinions of the first English Reformers, and their connection with the Continental divines. It was also the occasion of a very careful comparison of the respective dates or periods when the English Articles and Formularies were first arranged, and when the Calvinistic and Arminian systems were first generally agitated. The controversy has of late years almost entirely ceased; and it is now very generally conceded that the Articles of the English Church (with which, in fact, the controversy is mainly concerned) were framed, not with a reference to the systems known afterward distinctively as Calvinism and Arminianism, but with a reference to previous systems maintained in the Churches of the East and of the West prior to, and at the date of, the Reformation. Their object was primarily to elucidate the ancient doctrines of the Christian Church, and to expose many errors of the Church of Rome; and not to decide upon questions which had hardly begun to be controverted by the Continental Protestants. Not to enter upon a discussion of the sense of the Articles, we wish to state that there always have been, in the Church of England, both Calvinists and Arminians of every grade in full communion with that Church and in the discharge of its highest offices, clergymen and laymen; and that their respective systems have been very freely and extensively treated and disputed, without subjecting any of the controversialists to discipline. Now, in the Church of England, every clergyman is obliged to subscribe the Articles " willingly, and ex animo, and acknowledge all and every Article to be agreeable to the Word of God." At the same time each |
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