The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1882-01-14
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e alter the English Reformation. The MOD
y of worship differed in national churche
G and even in some cases in different die
o ceses France had the Gallican Use
s Italy the Roman, Milan different one
e Spain another, Armenia another, Will
/. England had several the most promi
Z. nent OF which We're the Sarum, Yorl
!. and Hereford Uses. At the Reformation
$ this Sarum Use was modified and ad
: opted. So you see that even our prayer
s book has come from an ancient source
: and Independent of Rome. The domin
Q alton of Rome, as say, never touched
, the doctrine of the English church mol
its mode of worship, save in a few par
: ticulars which We're accepted by England
of her own free will and accord.
, Among these We're the addition o1
"Filioque" to the Nicene Creed. an addi
:. ton which even the Methodists accept
, and others which were trivial. What
then, was the domination of Rome the
power OF the Pope, the obedience OF
England-of which we hear SO much
Why, simply in secular matters such as
are now divorced from all non-state
churches, and in occasional preferments
to office, and III such ecclesiastical mat
ters as are distinguished from doctrinal.
| The secular domination lay in all mat
ters of wills and inheritance wherever
dispute arose, all matters relating to cor
rection of morals, schools and school
| property, trusteeship, comprising large
class of civil actions, at law; and the
J domination" was the requiring all suits
in these matters to be carried to Rome
on appeal. That is, all legal matters in
which as a State Church the church was
involved with the State, these on appeal
had to be carried to Rome for final de-
cision. The ecclesiastical domination"
was in such matters as divorce suits, &C.
clesiastical trials guardianship Of children
| alienation of church property and similar
matters in which in State Church--the
State was involved with the church. In
the one class of suits the preponderance
| was on the civil side, in the other on the
ecclesiastical side. In all cases where
the State was not concerned, that is, in
purely religious matters. such as are the
sole powers of any church in this coun-
try-in all these Rome had no concern.
They were always decided as they are
now, by the undisputed authority OF the
two convocations of Canterbury and
York. And such domination as Rome
held was not fully established until the
year 1910, when King John needed the
Popes help to seize and hold the throne.
In the year 1915 there was a debate in
Parliament ON the extraordinary growth
of Papal primacy into Papalsupremacy"
and the grievances set forth were precise
ly those which / have described The
Romish Missal was not used in England,
for England had the sarum and other
Uses" of her own Romish doctrine
then comparatively pure had no hold in
England beyond the true faith held now
and expressed in the three great Creeds.
Romish ordination did not affect Eng
land, for she had her own ordination all
along. England had her own succession,
her own "Use" in worship, her own or
dination, her own everything that we
now consider essential as u Church.
But she could not discipline her own
laity if they chose to appeal to Rome. |
She could not dissolve her marriages she
could not sequestrate her property, she |
could not nominate to certain offices /
within her gift, such as have the Queens
now, she could not try her
own clergy when they became corrupt.
Many things which in this free country
appertain to the State then appertained
to the Church, and all of these Rome |
claimed and seized-The fog that has
gathered over this question lies in the
fact that men do not understand the his
tory of those times, Or the political con-
struction of Church and State. They
project the church of to-day back into
the past, and then to understand why
their forefathers hated Rome SO intense
|y are obliged to make Rome far worse
han she was. 1t is not until a man
srasps the fact that the Church was then
/ coordinate political power with the t
State, that he. is able to understand the ID
history of those times, or the domination t
II Rome. We have three, departments t
IL our government, the Executive, the t
legislative, the Judicial. Then there :
vas another equally powerful, namely, G
he Religious. And to this department. g
II the State was referred all questions e
bearing upon religion, education, morals I
nd the family. On these questions the /
Jhurch Legislated. In them she was S
lersef-Executive, Legislative and Jud- a
CdI. IOlllc SGlLctl tuUsG puTtS Vi lllC Il
jhurch's power which were civil or le- @
al not those of doctrine or worship. We o
n this country are so accustomed to the t
jhurche's having only spiritual power t
nd jurisdiction, that when we read of In
tome'sdomination we are apt to refer it to t
spiritual domination. But Rome herself A
i'd not then teach as obligatory doct- Il
ines which are now held by her--most n
t them being additions to the Faith Il
nade in our own day. Such usurpations II
s Rome did succeed in forcing upon Il
England by aid Of the kingly power, u
,ere never submitted patiently by the s
English Church or people. Ample proof o
I this exists in countless appeals to Par
ament in which grievances were set Il
orth, in the debates in Parliament, and
n remonstrances drawn up by Parlia- s
lent. And so when in the course oftime u
King and Pope, became quar- 6
elling King and Pope, the Church saw a
er opportunity and sprang forward to d
improve it, When Henry VIII pro- =,
lained himself head of the English p
'hurch il was in the same sense that the Il
ope had exercised headship: that is in ii
law and in those parts of n
ivil law which the union of Church and IL
tate, dcvolved upon the church. Such h
s we know nothing about in this coun- D