Sincerity And Subscription: a Plea for Toleration in the Church of England
Sincerity And Subscription: a Plea for Toleration in the Church of England
Hensley Henson
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307-342), who was less hostile to the Creed itself, but equally adverse to the damnatory clauses : and Dr. Hort (v. Life and Letters^ vol. I., p. 458 : vol. II., pp. 128, 140), who thoroughly disliked the Creed, and refers to it with marked contempt. 2 In May, 1873, the Convocation of Canterbury adopted a Synodical Declaration, which is printed in the Life and Letters of Dean Stanley y vol. II., p. 231. SINCERITY AND SUBSCRIPTION 31 I think, be unfair to press the language of the " proper prefa...ce " for Whitsunday, as if the clergyman who used it were thereby pledged to a particular interpretation of the narrative in Acts ii.i These instances will, perhaps, suffice to indicate both the fact and the character of the general understanding that does undoubtedly exist among us as to the measure of obligation attaching to the Anglican formularies. But, when all is said, we must face the Creeds. Here, at least, the mass of men are disposed to think there can be no margin of divergence. The Ordination Candidate, it is contended, must give an ex animo assent to every article in its obvious literal sense ; but it is precisely in connection with the Creeds that the present difficulty has arisen.
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