The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

CLAP-TRAP OF THE ALBION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—How very coolly the Albion of this morning " tells a
stretcher," to use an expressive vulgarism I
Did you read the editorial notice in the " Localities" ?
The description of a scene in the Exchange-room after the
receipt of the news of the defeat of ministers, is so falsely
given, that I think it as well to notice it.
The author of the paragraph in question says that, au at-
tempt was made to get up a cheer by a band of monopolists (!),
but that it signally failed, and that three cheers were proposed
for ministers and "free trade," and enthusiastically re-
sponded to. This is false, in toto. The enthusiastic cheers
were proposed by a thorough conservative, for the majority
of one, and as lustily taken up by the assembled merchants,
who are as much advocates for free trade as ministers or
their ignorant party are ; but free trade principles upon the
foundation where ministers would feign build, can never be
popular with practical men such as our merchants are, for it
is well known that the present men in office have thus sud-
denly formed their notions uponreturns furnished to the
committee on import duties, which returns are false, or at
least very far from the real state of the case.
Once more, with reference to the paragraph in this morn-

iug's Albion. The word "monopolist" is used—and if op-
position to the present foolish and headlong measures of the
whig administration, by threee-fourths of the merchants of
of this great commercial town be monopoly, then indeed are
we all more or less monopolists, and as these clap-trap whig
papers would style us, " grinders of the people" ; but the
truth is, Liverpool is tory, her merchants are tory, and last
though not least, the Exchange-room proved itself, as usual,
completely tory, last Saturday, when three cheers were en-
thusiastically given for the majority of one, which ebullition
of conservative spirit, the Albion this morning most falsely
interpreted, when it states that they were given for " free
trade." I am, &c.,

.
A SUBSCRIBER TO THE EXCHANGE-ROOM,
AND A SUPPORTER OF PROPER
FREE TRADE PRINCIPLES.

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THE ONE CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC

CHURCIL"

TO THE REV. J. B. WCREA

SlR,—Having now obtained your admission that you en-
tered into negociations about obtaining orders in our church,
I shall not pursue that part of the subject farther than to
say, that it is of very little consequence with whom the pro-
posal originated. The question could not have been enter-
tained by you if you believed that episcopal ordination was
not an institution of Christ.

With regard to my own sentiments I beg to say, that I
have no sympathy either with the pectiliaritie.r or the ten-
dencies of the Oxford Tracts. They contain heltapies which
obscure the true gospel of Christ ; and Is ith respect to
church authority, they so exaggerate the scripture view of an
ordained ministry and its powers, as to substitute the priest
and his ordinances for the Saviour and his grace.
On the other hand I could not be a consistent minister of
the christian church and believe that the jarring multitude of
sects with which this land is disgraced, have any claim to
the character of christian churches. Every Sabbath I pub-
licly declare my solemn belief that there is but " ONE Catho-
lic and Apostolic Church ;" the people unite with me in
praying, " From all heresy and scnlsm, good Lord de-
liver us."

I have not yet learned to despise the solemn admonition,
" I beseech you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
there be no divisions amongst you."—" Mark them that
cause divisions, and avoid them." I dare not forget that
" sects" are mentioned amongst the " works of the flesh,"
and that " those who separate themselves" are denounced
as " sensual, having not the Spirit:" My Bible has taught
me that the will of our blessed Lord is, " that they all may
be one as thou Father art in me, and I in thee"—that is one
in external operation, as well as in internal affection. That
same blessed word teaches me that there is ONE BODY as
well as one Spirit, and that to rend that body would be to
" divide Christ." That body is an external visible society
under one united government. " The body of Christ" the
church is that external society which is governed by the law-
ful ministry, God bath set some in the church, first
apostles," &c.
Men may call it illiberal or not, but I have too much re-
Terence for God's word to shrink from stating his truth.
That there are many pious persons in England not in com-
munion with the church is true. With many of them I re-
loice to hold profitable intercourse. 1 number them amongst
my dear friends, and look forward to spending eternity with
them. But as I neither believe in Protestant nor papal in-
fallibility, I can reconcile this with the firm conviction that
such persons are living iu sinful schism, in being united with
unscriptural sects. I believe they are like an esteemed
teacher of old, who, though "eloquent and mighty in the
scriptures," " instructed in the way of the Lord, fervent in
the Spirit, speaking and teaching diligently the things of the
Lord," yet needed an Aquila and Priscilla to " expound to
him the way of God more perfectly."
A church in scripture is an assembly of persons collected
together and ruled over by a lawfully ordained ministry.
From the time of the apostolic commission, in Mat. 28, 19,
to the end of time " all nations" are put under the apostles
and their successors, consequently there is no room for other
bodies not governed by apostles.
The apostolate was not a temporary office, nor was it con-
fined to the twelve. By a reference to your Greek Testa-
ment, you will find that the office was delegated to others,
and intended to be permanent.
" He gave some apostles, &c., till we all come to the mea-
sure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."—Eph. iv. 11,
&c.

Epaphroiitus was the apostle of the Philippian church.—
Phil. ii. 25. " Your messenger."—(Greek—Apostle.)
•

Silvanus and Tirnothy:are-expressfy declared .to be Apos-
tles of Christ.-1 Thess. i. 1. and 2., 7.

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Timothy exercised his apostleship in Ephesus. Titus ex-
ercised the same office in Crete. To him war committed
the care of " ordaining presbyters in every church," and of
" stopping the mouths of unruly and vain talkers." Having
thus the charge of the churches of Crete, it would obviously
be sinful for any one to intrude into the office of the mi-
nistry unordained by him.

There is not a single example of any other ordination or
mode of church government in the New Testament than
apostolicul, or in modern phraseology episcopal. You will
in vain look for a presbyter ordaining his fellow presbyter.
The " presbytery" spoken of by the apostle, included the
apostles, as you will find by comparing 1 Tim. iv, 14, with
2 Tim. i, 6. Indeed the word is no where else used in scrip-
ture, but for the highest ecclesiastical court, including the
high priest. _ _

A scriptural ministry must be threefold :
Apostle or Angel 1
In modern Bishop
Bishop or Presbyter Priest
Deacon language. Deacon
_ _

If a layman cannot ordain a minister, apostolic succession
is essential to an ordained ministry. An ordained minister
must have received that ordination from other ordained
men, and those again from others, and so progressively up to
the apostles.
That the Church of England is a church of Christ you ad-
mit.

Scripture teaches that the church is one body ; therefore
she is in this land The Church of Christ. I call upon you,
Sir, to show me the other body which can claim to be a
christian church, with its scriptural ministry and scriptural
government.

- The present question is not one a doctrine, it is simply of
discipline. I beg again to repeat, that I do not unchrislianize
my brethren in Christ, who, through false teaching, have
fallen into the sin of schism. Of some of them for zeal, for
self-denial, and devotedness to the Lord's service, I shall
ever desire to be a humble imitator. But this shall never,
I trust, delude me into an approval of their sinful schism.
That He may speedily come who is to be the repairer of the
breach and the restorer of paths to dwell in ; and that in that
day we all may find mercy of Him, is, Sir, the earnest
prayer of your obedient servant,
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JOSEPH BAYLEE

ROMISH CONTROVERSY