The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-13

the Roman position within the compass and scope
of her appeal.
The claim of Anglicans: THAT the Reformation
was the act of the Church of England in her cor
porate capacity and not of Henry VIII" has been
shown by the more recent researches of her own
Anglican historians to be a baseless fabrication,
which the real facts of the case fatty contradict
Dr. iames Gardeners book, 'The English Reforma-
ton from the Accession of Henry VIII to the
Death of Mary" does not leave the time from ira
dition leg to stand on. A review of this book in
the "Fortnightly Review" (Feb. -93) says:
The historian has made it clear that it was
not the English people; it was the king and the
court party that forced the Reformation on the
people. Engishmen were dragooned out of their
religion by the king, an adulterous murderer; and
by the nobility gorged with church plumber, and by
foreign mercenaries"
Angelicanus appeals to the Council of Aries, A.
D. 314, to support his contention. Now what are
the facts, for there is no better index to the mind
of any section part of the church in any age or
country than the legislative acts of its bishops as
sembled in representative councils. At Aries, the
residence of the papal legate (note this) council
was held in 314 and the early British church
represented by three of her principal bishops. We
know this because their names are subscribed to the
DEGREES sent to Rome for the approval of Pope Syl-
vester, and in the synodical letter accompanying
the DEGREES occur these words:
1--WE have thought of providing for our do
ceses in the presence of the Holy Ghost and his
gels certain regulations. But is is our opinion
that as you have wide jurisdiction it is your duty
to promulgate them to all the faithful" (Gotes-
linus, Hist. Major G. xxi. See also Archaeological
Cambrensis, vol II, p. 3OS.)
Here the British bishops, acting in concert with
the bishops of France, and recognizing the wider
jurisdiction" of the Pope, believe it to be part
Of his duty promulgate" the regulations they
have made in a provincial council, thus making
them binding on the whole church. Surely these
bishops would not have appealed to Rome did they
not believe that the Pope had jurisdiction the
whole church, the British church included
With tour de soupesse" admirable in its in
genuity, Anglicanus says MY omission of in
dezes to my quotations . was due to my as
sumption that you were familiar with the early
fathers of the Christian Church." As there are
twenty-five vols octave (Clark's edition. of the
anti-Nicene fathers, our correspondent flattered
our memory and industry. Well, let us see what
Angehcanus knows of the fathers. In his letter he
writes: "Ihe eloquent Tertullian, writing A. D.
1871, says that districts of Britain inaccessible to
Roman arms had been subdued to Christ ESSAY
against Marcion, PIP. 1919. What this extract
has to do with his claim for the independence of
the British Church. even if the quotation was cor
receive cannot for the life of us understand. We
of the opinion that learned friend is using
secondhand authorities against us The work,
from which the passage he cites is taken, is not
Tertullian's Essay Against Marcion," but the eli
tation is from his admirable work. entitled "De
Proescriptionibus adversus Haeritcos' work our
correspondent would do well to read and digest.
Tertullian uses against heretics the argument of
prescription and confounds them by proving they
have no claim to Apostolic Christianity. If An
gelicanus were familiar with Tertullian we doubt
very much that he would have touched him even
with a forty-foot pole Again, we remind
that his assertions are yet unproven and
MS quotations verified. In his letter today, he
gives Jewel the Anglican divine, as his authority
for saying that the bishops and clergy of the early
British Church refused obedience to Augustine"
Jewel p. 81. Now Jewels writings covered eleven
volumes. In which one of these are we to look
for the statement Our space viii not today en-
courage us to treat the Augustine episode or the
Magma Charta clause of liberty. We-will take up
next week the paragraph marked No 1 in the letter
# Angecanus. All the same. we may remind our
that the claims advanced and |
answers to them have been so thoroughly covered |
~ such scholars Stubs, Bright, Overton, Hunt,
Collins and Hole the one side, and Breen, Bird
yett Clifton and Loughnan the other, that there
S nothing left for writer's such Angicanus and |
ourselves but to consult their writings We may
lso add that in the washington Cathedral Hand
ook' all that correspondent brings out in favor
f his claims may be found and that the book has
cen discredited by such divines as Whatham, Jones
nd James of his own church.
PRISON LABOR.