Vindication of Anglo-Catholic Principles e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Under the title of Anglo-Catholic Principles Vindicated, this Work, first published as Special Supplements to the English Churchman, is now being re-issued in a series of Numbers. It will contain select portions and extracts from the works of cotemporary authors, (having their permission), with special reviews of recent doctrinal works, and other contributions, forming a Catena of concurrent testimony to those great Principles of the English Reformation - alike Scriptural and Catholic, - of which, by God's blessing, there has been such an earnest revival in the Church of England during the last thirty years.<br><br>The selections are chosen with the desire to give full expression to the Divine Truths of the Sacraments, and other essential truths, (on which there are still such lamentable differences among sincere Churchmen,) in the bona fide spirit of the English Prayer-book, - neither shrinking from the full recognition of the Catholic doctrines of our Church, as had been too generally the case before the revival of Church principles, nor subverting them, in effect, by a disloyal attempt (which is now being made by some among us) to strain them beyond their true meaning and intent.<br><br>The Parts of this Series from the 1st to the 6th are now completed. A short review of the Revival of Church Principles of late years in the Anglican Church, by the Bishop of Western New York, was selected for the first Part, as forming an introduction to the entire Series; and we are much indebted to him for the means of giving to our fellow Churchmen in England such an earnest and grateful acknowledgment of the results for good to the Church, for which we cannot be too thankful, and also for his friendly warning against the errors and excesses that have grown up with its progress.<br><br>In the second Part we have endeavoured to set forth, in the impressive and eloquent language of the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Western Ne