A Second Letter to the Rev. William Maskell, M.A. Some thoughts on the position of the Church of England, as to her dogmatic teaching

It may be well to draw out even a little further still, some of the thoughts suggested by the foregoing observations. It is plain that, if it shall come to pass that we have to...

You may be curious to learn upon what basis I think myself able to sustain so direct a challenge to the whole principle and bearing of your second letter; and, strange to say, I...

“But it will be said—it _is_ said, ‘although the decision, if wrong, will not bind us, it will _bind the Church_, and if the Church should commit itself to heresy, our course wo...

I know well, analogies and similitudes may be made on all sides, and in support of almost anything. I know also, however useful as illustrations to clear our meaning, and to ans...

Here, however, I wish merely to observe, that my former letter did not deal with this extension of the subject; did not go into the general principle of the dogmatic teaching, o...

In the certificate of the due baptism of children privately baptized, when brought to be received into the Church, (and Sir H. J. Fust has very properly pointed out that “this i...

Or, again, look at the state of things among us, as to the confession of sin; I speak not of regular systematic confession; nor of self-sought confessions on the part of a distu...

“Now comes the question which presses most on my mind. Having stated my reasons for the opinion which I deliberately form, and conscientiously entertain that this has never been...

“Is, then, the Church of England so isolated from the Universal, that the faith of the Church Universal has no influence into its theology?”—_A Letter to the Right Rev. the Lord...

There can be no doubt that what the Convocation considered to stand _not_ with this foundation, they lopped off and pulled down: what, therefore, they left, _of what was in thei...

I have spoken of the proviso in this act of parliament (25 Hen. VIII. c. 19) as confirming generally the canons precedent to its enactment. Of course I have not forgotten that t...

It appears to me that in some sense, i.e. in reference, at any rate, to posterior legislation, _the pre-reformation doctrines_ may be called the _common law_ of our Church; and...