The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-28 00:00:00

THE BATH JUDGMENT.-PROTEST.

The following declaration has been circulated amongst
the clergy :
We, the undersigned, priests of the one Catholic and
Apostolic Church, called by God's'providence to minister
in the province of Canterbury according to the Common
Prayer, do hereby, in the presence of Almighty God,
and in humble conformity with the tenor of our ordination
vow, as we understand them, make known and declare
as follows :

1. We believe (in the words used in the Book of Ho-
milies) that we " receive the body and blood of our
Lord Jesus Christ under the form of bread and wine ;”
and with Bishop Cosin, "that upon the words of conse•
cratlon the body and blood of Christ is really and
,sub-
stantially present, and so exhibited and given to all that
receive it ; and all this, not after a physical and sensual,
but after an heavenly and incomprehensible manner ;"
of which statement, Bishop Cosin says, " it is confessed
by all divines."
2. We believe in the words of Bishop Ridley, " that
the partakings of Christ's bodie and of His blonde unto
the faithfull and godlie, is the partakinge and fellowship
of life and of immortalitie. Alld, again, of the bad and
ungodlie receivers, St. Paul plainlie saieth thus :
that eateth of this breads and drinketh of this cupee
unworthilie, ho is guilty of the bodie and bloude of the
Lord.' He that eateth and driuketh unworthilie, eateth
and drinketh hit: own damnation, because he esteeweth
not the Lord's bodie ; that is, he receiveth not the
Lord's bodie with the honnure which is due unto Hytn."
Or with Bishop Poynet, " that the Eucha:i,t, so far as
appertains to the nature of the Sacrament. is truly the.
body aid blood of Christ, is a truly divine and holy
thing, even when it is taken by the unwoithy ;
however, they are not pArt.tkers Of its grace and holi-
ne..s, but eat and drink their own death and condemna-
tion."

3. We hold with Bishop Andrews, that "Christ
Himself, the inward part of the Sacrament, in and with
the Sacrament, apart trial and without the Sacrament,
wheresoever He is, is to be Worshipped." With whom
agrees Archhi,hop Brarnhag The Sacrament is
be adored, says the Council of Trent, that is (formally)
the body and flood of Christ,' say some of your
authors ; we say the same ; ' the Sacrament,' that is,
the species of bread and wine, say others—that we
deny."
We therefore being convinced,
1. That the doctrine of the real presence of " the' body
and blood of our, Saviour Christ under the form of bread
and wine" has been uniformly held as a point of faith in
the Church from the Apostolic times; and was accepted

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Formularies ;-
2. That the interpretation of Scripture most commonly
held in the Church bas been that the wicked, although
they can "in no wise be partakers of Christ," nor
" spiritually eat His flesh and drink His blood," yet de
not in the Sacrament not only take, but eat and drink
unworthily to their own condemnation the body and
blood of Christ, which they do not discern ;-
3. That the practice of worshipping Christ then and
there especially present, after consecration and before
communicating, has been common throughout the
Church ;
And, moreover, that the Thirty-nine Articles were in'
tended to be, and are in harmony with the faith and
teaching of the ancient and undivided Church ;
Do hereby protest earnestly against so much of the
opinion of his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, in
the case of Ditcher v. Denison, as implies, directly or in'
directly, that such statements as we have cited above
are repugnant to the doctrine ,of the Thirty-nine
Articles ;
And we appeal from the sail opinion, decision, or.
sentence of his grace, in the first instanco, to a free and
lawful synod of the bishops of the province of Canter-
buryc ; and then. if need be, to a free and lawful synod
of all the churches of our communion, when such 11
God'p mercy may be had.
BARTHOT,OMeW C C., MA., Perpetual Curate of St"
David's, Exeter.
BEIs NETT, W. J. E , M.A., Vicar of Frome.
CARTER, Thos. T., M.A.., Rector of Clewer, Oxon.
GRUEBER, C.E , Incumbent cf St. James' , gun"
alit'
HEATHCOTE, W. Beadon, 8.C.1., Precentor of S
bury Cathedrals
HENDERSON, T., M.A., Prebendary of St. 13041'4
Vicar of Messing.
KERLB, John, M.A., Vicar of Horsley, Winchester.
NEALE, J. M., M.A.,•Sackville College.
PLUMeR, C. J., M.A., Rector of ElBtree, Rochester._
POPHAM, J. L., 1V1.A., Prebendary of Salisbury, Rector
of Chilton Folliatt.
PUSEY, E. B , D.D , Regius Professor of Hebrew, COI°
of Christ Church, Oxford.
SCOTT, W., 8.D., Perpetual Curate of Christ Church,
Hoxton, London.
, et
STUART, E., M.A., Incumbent of St. Mary emeg---en
Munster-street, London.
WILLIAMS, 1., 8.D., Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire..
WOODFORD, J. R., M.A., Vicar ot Kempsford, Gl°u.°6ll.
tershire.
YARD, G. 8., M.A., Rector of East Torrington 'llt/1
Wragby, Lincolnshire.