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THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 151
Christian truth, and illustrate the general judgment of
the Church; and in this influence, as testimony, they
have great force. They are obligatory upon the clergy
just so far as they are embraced under the " promise of
conformity to the doctrines, etc., of the Protestant Episcopal Church." This obligation is, nevertheless, sufficient for the maintenance of concord, and of uniformity in the public instructions of the pulpit.
An interesting and succinct history of the discussion
of the Articles in the General Convention, and of their
final establishment in 1801, is copied into the Appendix
'No. C, from the " Memoir of the Life of Bishop White,"
by the Rev. Bird Wilson, D. D., Professor of Systematic
Divinity in the General Theological Seminary of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
From this history of their establishment it appears
that all efforts to make them speak more distinctly on
either side of the controverted systems of philosophical
theology were rejected, and that the Articles were
finally left without any reference to the more modern
controversies.
As a matter of fact, too, there are Calvinists and
Arminians among both the clergy and the laity of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, and
all are considered as perfectly justified in holding their
particular views.
The opinion of the writer, which he states with diffidence, as he has formed it from a consideration of the
history of the Articles in our American Church, as compared with the obligations assumed in the services for
baptism and confirmation, and in the ordination offices,
is this—that all the members of the Church, both clergy
| 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 | 00000155 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 151 Christian truth, and illustrate the general judgment of the Church; and in this influence, as testimony, they have great force. They are obligatory upon the clergy just so far as they are embraced under the " promise of conformity to the doctrines, etc., of the Protestant Episcopal Church." This obligation is, nevertheless, sufficient for the maintenance of concord, and of uniformity in the public instructions of the pulpit. An interesting and succinct history of the discussion of the Articles in the General Convention, and of their final establishment in 1801, is copied into the Appendix 'No. C, from the " Memoir of the Life of Bishop White," by the Rev. Bird Wilson, D. D., Professor of Systematic Divinity in the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. From this history of their establishment it appears that all efforts to make them speak more distinctly on either side of the controverted systems of philosophical theology were rejected, and that the Articles were finally left without any reference to the more modern controversies. As a matter of fact, too, there are Calvinists and Arminians among both the clergy and the laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, and all are considered as perfectly justified in holding their particular views. The opinion of the writer, which he states with diffidence, as he has formed it from a consideration of the history of the Articles in our American Church, as compared with the obligations assumed in the services for baptism and confirmation, and in the ordination offices, is this—that all the members of the Church, both clergy |
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