The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-09-11

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Edwardlne ordinai.s asor otherwise "tne
sink would indeed faye been emptied
to no purpose; we had suffered
to no purpose dfRe had suffered
Those oily, shaveins portly hypocrite,
we have sent baehs to Rome. from
whence, we first inperted them; for
we require our bsshops to be"-not
"prissts,' but . apsltors, laborers AMI
watchmen' (zurich Letters, No. 22).
With the i've ysArk Of Marys reign
given them to;feaiissS that the Edward
inc ordinal was invalid the Eliza
bsthan.. '.Reformsry -neverthsless de-
liberately adoptsd ut! Why? Be-
cause the corrslatiye of priest" is
Sacrifice" ana m therefore, as they de-
MED that the Cathdic Mass is a sac
rince. 80 they logioally denied that
a Catholic minister Scould be a priest.
Az Edwin sandys, the Elisabethan
Archbishop Of York said: "rhere, can
be no sacrince without priest; az
there can be no prlsst where there Is
no sacrincs." Then ne denies that
the Catholic Masssijs sacrifice; from
which it follows that thsre can be 40
Catholic priests: .ssvhere the Popish
priesthood taketh septtng. and In what
ground the foundation thereof is laid,
I cannot flnd In thu Scriptures. Anti
christ is the author of that priest
hood; to him they sacrince, him they
serve" tsermons xxi. ,. 441.)
There is not single "Reformer' in
the Tudor period b4t denied the Sac
rinoe Of the Mass md therefore, de-
MED the priesthood Of the minister.
The Anglican priest therefore. is a
priest only ii, ,thsssf sfnse that paper
flower is 4 howersnr that the Angli-
can church, ID a church. The Anglican
church, or."Establishment. p is nothing
more than 4 civil department; and the
Anglican cleric iss simply an officer OF
the state. is It Aatirs to say that?
Well, at any rst1t sanmsr. the Pro-
testant ArchbishSpM M Canterbury, said
it. Here de hisakords: 'The min
listers Of aods wssd. under His Ma
jesty,s, bs btsS Sps, .pars sans; Wears,
ana Such u ippolnf-
"a BY His id insstra-
ton, i. All the said officers
and minister's, ,as well Of thesone sort
as Of thesnthsr. be appointed assigned
and electsd by the laws and orders OF
kings and princes For the admission
of many OF these officers -be divers
comely ceremonies and asolemniti,s
used which.sbe not Of necessity, bu:
only fora good order and seemly
fashion; sforeif such offices and min
istrations were committed withou.
such solemnity they were neverthe-
less truly committed. And there is no
more promise Of God that grace j.
given In the committing OF the ecclesi.
astical office than it is In the commit
ting ofSthe civil oflce.' = (Cf. Pocock'a
Burnet, 1868, w., p. 1879
The '.Reformers" denied the Sacri-
nee Of, the Mass, and therefore most
logically denied the priesthood. The
then Bishop of Exeter, who ministered
in the cathedral under the shadow Of
which I am now speaking, and who
was himself leading promoter Of the
Edwardine Ordinal said: Wherefore
call they the Mass sacrifce?s Even
because (say they) in the Mass, Chris:
this Son Ii offered up unto God HI.
Father. oh, what great blasphemy
is this; yea, to be abhorred Of all vir-
tuous men. Why, then, do they call
1t sacrifice seeing it is but remem-
brance Of sacrifice" ?" (Works, 1.-THE
Defense OF Christian Man." PIP. 40
AL
Let me end with the evidence Of the
present Bishop of Hereford, who IL
only repeating the official teaching oi
the Establishment. In his 1908 ad.
dress at the Advent ordination III
Hereford cathedral, His Lordship said
THE kingdom of Christ has no sacer-
dotal system. 1t interposes no sacri-
hcial class between God and man, nc
Glass by whose Intervention alone GUf
.is reconciled and man forgiven. ~
| And this absence of any sacerdota
order from the Christian church
rightly understood, is deserving OF al
the more careful attention, because
of the tendency in q section OF ou.
/ Church Of England tosdrift back to.
| wards the erroneous and misleading
Roman doctrine of sacrihcing priese-
hood. ("Tablet," Feb. sl3, 1909, p
5247.) ~
In face OF all this accumulation O
evtdence--and have given but 9 little
OF the whole-do 1t not pass com
prehension that High Anglicans should
\ enlarge and write pQmphIets on tIls