The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

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NOTICES

Claims of the Church to the Love of her Children ; a
Sermon, preached in St. James's Church, Latchford,
by the Rev. James Wright, incumbent. Warrington ;

Booths

This temperate discourse will commend itself to all en-
lightened members of our natiinal church, as affording a
clear but scriptural statement of the claims which that
church possesses on the sympathies and support of all
her faithful adherents. The words on which the sermon
is founded are, " My house is the house of prayer ;" and
from these words Mr. Wright enlarges on the antiquity of
the church, her apostolical character, and her protest
against Rome; the character of her services, the conduct
which becomes her members, and on several objections
urged against her. As respects one feature in the cha-
racter of her services, we may make the following extract :
Is there a time when the doors of the church are
blic worship, that the word of God is
May no the poor and the un-
iCts tt,a9d..,haßLO,Vlß
knd may we not hope of many such worshippers

thrown or

not read to the people

wbo frequeqt her courts. ' that their faith standeth not in
the wisdom of but in the power of God In the
in the Lessons, in the Epistle and Gospel, those
who assemble in the house of God, hear him teaching in
his Holy Word. And for this honour done unto God in
his Word,' saith an eminent prelate of our church, ' which
doubtless has brought down, and will continue to bring
down, a blessing upon her from Him who has declared,
"Them that honour me I will honour ;" for this honour
to God's Word, and for the provision made thereby to
teach the people infallibly out of it the whole counsel of
God, independently of the defects, and errors, and re-
are incident to the human teaching that they
, I am sure, to be thankful, if we had
else in her public services to rejoice in or to be
kful for.' "

serves whiel

receive, we ought

In reply to an objection frequently raised against the
urch, the following is worthy of observation :

" It is objected that doctrines similar to the worst doc-
trines of Rome have been lately taught by some of the
clergy of the church. It is with unfeigned sorrow we ad-
mit the truth of this objection. Such doctrines have been
broached, and though but partially, still to the perversion
of a few enthusiastic spirits, to their wilful excision from
the church, and to their union with Rome. Admitting
the full force of the objection, it is yet but just towards
the church, to ask, if it be fair or reasonable to judge the
church by the unsound and authoritatively-condemned
statements of a mere fractional part of her ministers ?
They went out from us, but they were not of us.' Are
we not to judge of the church, by her Articles, her Ho-
milies, her Formularies ? And if these, with one consent,
condemn those dangerous opinions, then does the church
condemn them. We never take the opinions of a few
discontented and noisy individuals for the voice of the
nation, neither should we take the condemned aninions of
a few erratic divines for the voice of the church. The
church has not changed, though a score or two of clergy-
men, out of a body of sixteen thousand-, have chaneci.
Their present continuance among us, to our impatient
minds, seems long; but what will be the brief period of
this agitation, when looked back on at the distance of fifty
years, and through the records of ecclesiastical history ?
A dream, when one awaketh.' The church is still, as
she has been, thank God, from the beginning, ' The pillar
and the ground of the truth.' "

The House of God : its beauty and its claims. A sermon
by the Rev. R. P. Buddicom. Liverpool. Newling.
Little need be said in a town which has profited so long
nnd so greatly as this by Mr. Buddicom's faithful minis-
Scriptural positions maintained in
which was preached in the parih church of
St. Bees, in behalf of the ineorporat- •

trations in proof of the

this sermon

building, and repairing

the hous,

of pra

the house