The Irish standard., 1909-09-11

Edwardine ordinal,sffor otherwise "tne
sink would indeed have been emptied
to no purpose; live had suffered
to no purpose; ifss~e had suffered
Those oily. shavens sportly hypocrites
We have sent back: to Rome. from
whence. we first imported them; for
we require our bishops to be"-not
priests" but "paltors. laborers AMI
watchmen" Zurich Letters No. 22).
With the five years Of Marys reign
given them to realize that the Edward
inc ordinal was invalid, the Eliza-
bsthan,. "Reformsrss ,leverthsless de-
liberately adopted it! Why? Be-
cause the corrective of priest" is
Sacrifice" and therefore as they de-
MED that the Catholic Mass is a sac
rince. SO they loEtcally denied that
a Catholic minister could be a priest
As Edwin sandys. the Elisabethar
Archbishop Of York, said: There can
be no sacrifice without a priest; az
there can be no priest where there Is
no sacrifice" Then he denies that
the Catholic Mass,is a sacrifice; from
which it follows that there can be no
Catholic priests: Where the Popish
priesthood taketh roofing, and in what
ground the, foundation thereof is laid,
I cannot find in the Scriptures. Anti
christ is the author of that priest
hood; to him they sacrifice, him they
serve" (sermons xxi., p. 441.)
There is not . single "Reformer'' in
the Tudor period but denied the Sac
rihoe Of the Mass, and, therefore, de-
MED the priesthood Of the minister.
The Anglican priest therefore. is a
priest only in the%sSnse that paper
flower is q flower. Or that the Angli-
can church is q church. The Anglican
church, or "Establishment," is nothing
more than q civil department; and the
Anglican cleric is simply an officer Of
the state. Il 1t ,satire to say that :?
Well, at any rats,s5 csanmsr, the Pro-
testant Archbishopof Canterbury, said
it. Here are his words: 'The min
listers Of Coos word, under His Ma
jesty, be they btshsps parsons; Wears.
ana such dtner d . 81 appoint
ed by Hiss Hishnesss to4 Il ain,inistFa-
tion., ). >. All tho said officers
and ministers, as well OF thesone sort
as Of the other, be appointed, assigned
and elected by the laws and orders of
kings and princes. For the admission
of many of these officers be divers
comedy ceremonies and ssolemnitiss
used; which be not Of necessity, but
only for a good order and seemly
fashion; zforsif such offices and min
'strations were committed without
such solemnity. they We're neverthe-
less truly committed. And there is no
more promise Of God that grace Is
given in the committing of the ecclesi-
astical office than it is in the commit
ting Of the civil Office" (Cf. Pococl.a
Burnet, 1858, w., p. 1873
The "Reformers'' denied the Sacri-
flee 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 a sacrince? Even
because (say they) in the Mass, Chris:
the Son il offered up unto God His
Father. Oh, what great blasphemy
Is this; yea, to be abhorred Of all vir-
tuous men. Why, then, do they Gail
it sacrifice. seeing 1t is but remem-
brance of a sacrhce?" (Works, 1.-THE
Defense Of Christian Man." PIP. 400
471.)
Let me end with the evidence Of the
present Bishop Of Hereford, who IL
only repeating the official teaching vi
the Establishment. In his 1908 adj
dress at the Advent ordination in
Hereford cathedral, His Lordship said:
1.-THE kingdom of Christ has no sacer-
dotal system. 1t interposes no sacri-
fetal class between God and man, no
class by whose Intervention alone Guil
Is reconciled and man forgiven.
And this absence of any sacerdotu1
order from the Christian church
rightly understood, is deserving Of all
the more careful attention, because
of the tendency in section OF on:
. Church Of England to drift back to-
wards the erroneous and misleading
Roman doctrine of sacrificing priese-
hood" ("Tablet." Feb. 13, 1909. p.
247.)
In face OF all this accumulation Of
evidence-and have given but title
of the whole-does it not pass COM
prehension that High Anglicans should
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