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278 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH.
to take into consideration the propriety of framing articles of religion." The committee of the whole reported to the house a
resolution, " that the articles of our faith and religion, as founded
on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, are sufficiently declared in our creeds and liturgy, as set forth in the Book
of Common Prayer established for the use of this Church; and
that further articles do not appear necessary." But this was
negatived in the house; and a committee was subsequently appointed to frame articles. They reported seventeen. But the
House of Deputies resolved that, on account of the advanced
period of the session, and the thinness of the convention, the consideration of them should be postponed; and that the secretary
should transcribe the articles into the journal, to lie over for the
consideration of the next General Convention. On this publication of the proposed articles in the journal, Dr. White remarks,
that " the bishops had no opportunity of expressing their sense
on the question of publishing the draft of articles which it (the
journal) contains. Such a publication was certainly very injudicious ; if for no other reason, because it might have been expected to be easily mistaken for the sense of at least one of the
houses of the convention. Indeed, it was so misunderstood,
whereas it was the sense of a committee only; not an individual
besides having delivered in his place any opinion on any article.
But this was not the worst. It tended to excite religious acrimony,
without any possible good effect at the present; and with the
probable bad effect of the greater acrimony, on an opportunity of
settlement in future." He disapproves of the application of the
term "priesthood," in one of the articles, "to denote all the
orders of the Christian ministry, and not confined to the order
of presbyters, as in the established ordinal; of the former of
which there is no example in the institutions of the Church of
England." And he adds: " It is not here designed to charge any
other fault on the articles proposed. They are, in substance,
what is contained in the thirty-nine articles, without any super-
addition, except in the particular stated. But the remarks may
serve to show that, in the work of clearing that code of what may
be thought unnecessary positions, there is danger of admitting
| 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 | 00000282 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 278 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. to take into consideration the propriety of framing articles of religion." The committee of the whole reported to the house a resolution, " that the articles of our faith and religion, as founded on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, are sufficiently declared in our creeds and liturgy, as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer established for the use of this Church; and that further articles do not appear necessary." But this was negatived in the house; and a committee was subsequently appointed to frame articles. They reported seventeen. But the House of Deputies resolved that, on account of the advanced period of the session, and the thinness of the convention, the consideration of them should be postponed; and that the secretary should transcribe the articles into the journal, to lie over for the consideration of the next General Convention. On this publication of the proposed articles in the journal, Dr. White remarks, that " the bishops had no opportunity of expressing their sense on the question of publishing the draft of articles which it (the journal) contains. Such a publication was certainly very injudicious ; if for no other reason, because it might have been expected to be easily mistaken for the sense of at least one of the houses of the convention. Indeed, it was so misunderstood, whereas it was the sense of a committee only; not an individual besides having delivered in his place any opinion on any article. But this was not the worst. It tended to excite religious acrimony, without any possible good effect at the present; and with the probable bad effect of the greater acrimony, on an opportunity of settlement in future." He disapproves of the application of the term "priesthood," in one of the articles, "to denote all the orders of the Christian ministry, and not confined to the order of presbyters, as in the established ordinal; of the former of which there is no example in the institutions of the Church of England." And he adds: " It is not here designed to charge any other fault on the articles proposed. They are, in substance, what is contained in the thirty-nine articles, without any super- addition, except in the particular stated. But the remarks may serve to show that, in the work of clearing that code of what may be thought unnecessary positions, there is danger of admitting |
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