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152 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH.
and laity, are at liberty to hold any opinions they may
see best on these systems, and are also at liberty to discuss their opinions as they may please, and at all times,
with one exception. This exception regards the public
preaching of the clergy. The writer supposes that no
minister of this Church has any right to advocate either
of the controverted systems, as such, in the pulpit. Else
these Articles are not Articles of peace, and will not accomplish uniformity in the public ministry. If one
minister may argue for, or declaim against, the one system, another minister has an equal right to argue for, or
declaim against, the other system ; and thus the pulpit
may be contradictory, and the Articles be made, contrary to their design, Articles of contention. The writer
supposes that, in the purpose of this Church, no minister is to be known in his pulpit as a Calvinist or an Ar-
minian; that he has no right there to preach the one or
the other system, or to condemn the one or the other as
such. He has a right to explain the Articles, as the decisions of the Church, or to preach on any of their topics
as Scriptural, in the pulpit. He may advocate a philosophical system out of the pulpit as he may see fit. But
in the Protestant Episcopal Church, the entire preaching of the minister, and all the instruction he may communicate to any in his ministerial or official character,
must be purely Scriptural. The office of the ministry
in this Church is solemnly, and singly, and jealously devoted to the heralding of the Word of God.
A few extracts from the Ordination Services will
sustain our assertion. In the exhortation in the Ordination of Priests is the following decisive passage :
" Forasmuch then as your Office is both of so great
| 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 | 00000156 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 152 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. and laity, are at liberty to hold any opinions they may see best on these systems, and are also at liberty to discuss their opinions as they may please, and at all times, with one exception. This exception regards the public preaching of the clergy. The writer supposes that no minister of this Church has any right to advocate either of the controverted systems, as such, in the pulpit. Else these Articles are not Articles of peace, and will not accomplish uniformity in the public ministry. If one minister may argue for, or declaim against, the one system, another minister has an equal right to argue for, or declaim against, the other system ; and thus the pulpit may be contradictory, and the Articles be made, contrary to their design, Articles of contention. The writer supposes that, in the purpose of this Church, no minister is to be known in his pulpit as a Calvinist or an Ar- minian; that he has no right there to preach the one or the other system, or to condemn the one or the other as such. He has a right to explain the Articles, as the decisions of the Church, or to preach on any of their topics as Scriptural, in the pulpit. He may advocate a philosophical system out of the pulpit as he may see fit. But in the Protestant Episcopal Church, the entire preaching of the minister, and all the instruction he may communicate to any in his ministerial or official character, must be purely Scriptural. The office of the ministry in this Church is solemnly, and singly, and jealously devoted to the heralding of the Word of God. A few extracts from the Ordination Services will sustain our assertion. In the exhortation in the Ordination of Priests is the following decisive passage : " Forasmuch then as your Office is both of so great |
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