The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

.rerce to goternmen

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The Church 111is,:onary Sceirty maintains a

pure principles of ecangel.cal truth in govertin,ent, and
teaches tt.ose principles in &aline. One of the first
principles of pure etengt-lical truth in goy, rnment is this

con,,equentiv, Christian men must
wrath, but al,o for cons fence rake

be subject riot only for
. Tlyere the witlcst

noss4rle peratation h tweet, r vergelicail truth at d radical
it:subordittation. Anotl-., t tundaturntal tr-nciple of evan-
relieal truth in the matter of government is' this—
God who has orda tied the pnwer has

Iso relealed the

manned all parties, tl e gore roor tied the governed, to
take herd to His law. The t owt r, tht refore, is not abso-
lute or arbitrary, but eof a given law. This

so plies ,0 all ccn.tit used :,uthoritv, civil and eceles.a4ti, al.
Civil rulers, it flume( d b‘ evrrigtlical Mill). would not,
cou!d not, desire to t e absolwe ; because tliev must de-ire
that 't he 1.,w of 'heir C(11 may be known by their Mijects,
and th yct uld not rarest their fUti-CtB 10 n:ent to !my

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tooth, would nor, oak! tot, con-cut to abFoitir • sultnis•
sion to the I.urnan ruler, irresi ective of the Di‘it,e hivr,
Thus, one of the rure principles of evangelical tru!h
enrghtt ned suborditiation ; t r, in other words, sarnissior

red cs a wiole

e rated

e ruler

ordain, d d pay, due practical attention to the law
resealed hl God, all is easy and crderly. The same is
true of r cleaiastical ruler,. They ate ot daired of Cod ;
but lle who hao: rdaiocd the rower has also revealed II e
law under which that Dower is to govern, and has com-
manded all risen, whtther in authority or under authority.
to SeSidi the Scrioures. The l oaer, therefore, is not
aLsolute, but adminiatrative. li,hopr, it flnenced by
esat gt lies! truth, aculd not and cculd net w i,,h to be ab.

don- h to he at qua7tord with holy sorpture, and they
could not. expect the rn r.. eoti,eto to pm- violation of holy
script u, e. Mentribt of the clAircb. it flounced by e.rwi-
-04,1 truth. would not and could rot ettitsent to be rbso-
lately submissive to rt Visitor, tin rt e:•tive of the Bible.
Thus, one of the rune ptinciplcs of e, flop-heal truth is
etilieliter.ed subordination; or, in oihsr words, subiniss•on
to God's author ty c( ti-id. r. d es a telole, both to that
part of it a holt is untb: d ed in the Lishou. and to that
part of which is txprtsstd in the Bible. While the
bishop otd,ined of (40d I.its due practical rtgald to the
revehlrd law of God, all is ratty ;nd orderly. Evangelical
trulh is safe, and evil gel cal n to are uhednnt ; thankful

for tl e t xe( wive c ffieacy of Ihe epi:ercal ffite

eti•envey

An ftbsolnte e

co pacy can

etert nee

cause ern.L-rrasHmell and vixaliun awl annoyance; and
therefore sin anxir:us des re of such au Euiscovaoy trust

ever be to klen the Bible, as much as pos!Ale, from tte
meniters of the Cl.utch ; or so to mingle it %ith inte-

Fnisnini,Arative

ey cannot dis

The liib!e I. at ont e the warrant and the litniocion of its
authority ; the chatter and the boundary of its jurisdic-
tion. It cant,ot but ilesid the one, it desires not to ex-
cued the other; and therefore it inculcates on all the

Here we rrcognise the Church Of Etishrd. It is un-
happily too ti ue that there is a parry in :be Church, of
FoLlantl, who in drfi,nce of her plainest declarations,
have become t! e advocate s of au absolute Episenp:teY ;
but I t. ust, Sir, thht t,eiil er you nor I, ocr the Church
Nlissionary Society, in any branch of is anrninistiat.cn.

Scriptural claim. We art: Fpi;cepalians, conscientiously
and heartily so; hut cur Bishops are Bishot s. with and
he low the Bible; and not I 'shops without above the
Bible. This is the pure principle of the Eyanuelical
truth, in the natter of government, on which the Church
Mtssionary Society has ever acted. Deferring with un-
feigned s.tistartion to the Ppiscopal office ; rejoicing in
the ortler, sobriety. and stability secured by its dignified
deciwens, and • xecutive efficiency ; anxious in every
thing a h cle does not interfere with revealed truth, to
place it-elf. its nniss.onat les. and all its operations, under
the pater! jutistliction of onr Right Reverend Prelates;
but still tmenibeting that God has spoken to the tnem-