The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-25 00:00:00

THE "ESSAYS AND REVIEWS"

PROSKJUTIONs.

JuTanAL 001 WITTIE OP THE PRIVY COUNCIL
(THIS DAY.)
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[Present—The Lord Chancellor fiord ,Iced
Ringedown, Lord Chelmsford, the Arebbihop of
terbury, the Archbishop of York, and the Bishop a
Loodoo.l
WILLIAMS V. THE BISHOP OF fiLLISBOBT.

At the opening • gof the court this morning,
Dr. Williams, before resuming his argument, observed
that when he drew up his notes he thought that what be
had to defend himself against was simply the judgment ~,
the court below, and he had therefore some difficult,
to addressing himself, in accordance with the ise.
mations which fell from their lordships on the previous
day, to the charges as set forth in the articles. Referring
to the three main points of the charge, be said that epee
the subject of propitiation he should have to point out Wu
important questions erase ea to his relation with Beret
Bunsen. He had not raised the question with regard It
inspiration, the difference between him and the author hi
was reviewing upon that subject not being sufficiently mate
via:, but upon the doctrines of propitiation BA,
justification he was discussing in his away cobs.
ther Bunsen might or might not be • Christiat
I sad he expressly laid dawn that he might be .
I Christian even though his work contained some opinion
1 which might possibly be open to doubt. Passing to de
point at which his argument was interrupted oo the previous
day he justified the expression "a fiction of merit by tram.
fir," by reference to the words "phantasy of faith" ie the
"Homilies" and in the works of Bishop Ridley "phantasy
of faith." His argument in reference to justification was thu
having the righteousness of Christ was the same as having
forgiveness, and he relied for his interpretation upon the
authority of Bishop Bull, Bishop Pearson, and Jeremy
Taylor. It had appeared to him that undue disparagemeot
bad been heaped upon Bunsen by writers in this country,
and that induced him to take up the cause of Bunsen
more warmly perhaps than he should otherwise have done.
The Make consisted of 40 pages ; it discussed a vast number
of subjects, earthly and heavenly, and it was remarkable
that the only ground they found for the charge was in the
two pages where be was dismissing whether Bunsen was or
was not a Christian, and be asked the court to bear the pun
pose in mind in pronouncing judgment upon his words. de
was about to refer to the sixteenth article, which charge
the defendant with accepting the views of Baron Bona:,
but
The Lord Chancellor observed that the article in rineetim
contained no charge, but consisted only of vague gets
ratios, and it was not therefore aecesesry that the apps:.
lent obould trouble himself with it.
Dr. William* said in that case he should have no blithe
argument to offer. Either he was, io the ecclesiastical ens
of the word, guilty, in which case a retrectation wee dal
from him of the particular doctrines which were °booties,
or he was caught in a verbal trap, in which case the scums
should have been merely formal ; or he was ecelesiut caL.
innocent—the construction which be held to be the true me.
The Queen's Advocate said he appeared in both thee
cases to maintain that the judgment of the Dean of Ardis
was in all material respects in accordance with the law /
the church and the law of England, and ought not to le
altered or reversed by their lordships. Doe of the nary
difficulties under which he laboured in bringing forward 6
uses was that he was addressing a court not intimate
acquainted with ecclesiastical proceedings, and he though;
it necessary to state that these proceedings Wee
taken in the form of " the office of the judge promoted'
in the one as by the Bishop of Salisime
, against • clerk in his own diocese, and in Wa
1 other by a proctor for convocation, under letters of mins
I from the Bishop of Ely. There were two modes of price°
mg, one extremely harsh and the other extreme.,
lenient, which were open to the prosecution. *r.
they had proceeded under the statute of Elizabett.
and one iota of the charge had been proved, the yelp
would have bad no option but to proceed to us
extreme penalty, but he thought it more fitting the objes
of these prosecutions, which wee to purge the church of s
supposed heresy, that the proceedings should be lath
under the general ecclesiastical law, by which the Unlit
, would be enabled to apportion his sentence according to Le
exigeocies of the case.
(The case was proceeding when we went to preas.]
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