Masters in English Theology; Being the King's College Lectures for 1877
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We cannot wonder that the great representative of the Angli- canism of the Stuart period should have endeavoured to secure so able a writer for the ministry of the Church of England, and have persuaded him to sign the Articles and to accept the Damnatory Clauses under the cover of the wide latitude for open questions offered by the King's declaration, written, it is believed, by Laud himself, and prefixed to the Articles, as if it were an authoritative expression of the meaning of subscription.... On the other hand, his position in relation to the Church of Kome is not that of the patristic Anglican. His charge against her is not that she has sinned against the tradition of the third or the fourth century, but that she has sinned against Scripture. His argument against her claim to speak with infallibility is not — or at least not prominently — that such and such Fathers are witnesses against it, that this or that Pope has been involved in acknowledged heresy, but that there is no a priori ground for expecting the guidance of a living infallible interpreter in addition to the infal- lible Word ; that there is no Scriptural proof of the appointment of such an interpreter ; and that if there were, as the Church of Rome teaches that men only know Scripture to be from God on her authority, men would still be treading in the circle of a vicious WILLIAM CHILLING WOKTH.
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