The Irish standard., 1909-09-11

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Edwardine ordinal..sfor otherwise "tne
sink would indeed have been emptied
to no purpose; five had suffered
to no purpose; ifss&e had suffered
Those oily, shavean sportly hypocrites
We have sent back to Rome. from
whence. we first imported them: for
we require our bishops to be"-not
priests" but pastors. laborers AMI
watchmen" Zurich Letters, No. 22).
With the. five years Of Mary's reign
given them to realize that the Edward
inc ordinal was invalid, the Eliza
bsthan. 'Reformsrs,. nevertheless de-
liberately adopted it! Why? Be-
cause the correlstiye of priest" is
Sacrifice" and therefore, as they de-
MED that the Catholic Mass is sac
rihce. SO they logically denied that
a Catholic minister could be a priest.
As Edwin sandys. the Elisabethar
Archbishop Of York, said: There can
be no sacrifice without priest; az
there can be no prizes where there Is
no sacrifice." Then he denies that
the Catholic MASKS q 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,
cannot find in the Scriptures. Anti
christ is the author of that priest
hood; to him they sacrit1ce, him they
serve" (sermons xxi., p. 441.)
There is not single "Reformer' in
the Tudor period but denied the Sac
rifioe Of the Mass, and, therefore, de-
MED the priesthood Of the minister.
The Anglican priest therefore, is a
priest only In the<slnse that paper
flower is q flower, Or that the Angli-
can church Is a church. The Anglican
church, or "Establishment," is nothing
more than civil. department; and tho
Anglican cleric is simply an officer of
the state. Il 1t satire to say that?
Well, at any rats.i Gsanmsr, the Pro-
testant Archbishop.of Canterbury, said
it. Here are hisssRords: 1.-THE min
listers Of Coos word, under His Ma
jesty, be they bishops, parsons, Wears,
and such dthsr .pris9 d i 81 d slppoimr
ed by His Hishnss.ss toa L .min,stra.
ton. :. - All the said officer.
and ministers, ,as well Of the one 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
comely ceremonies and solemnities
used; which be not Of necessity but
only for a good order and seemly
fashion: for If such offices and min
istratione were committed without
such solemnity. they were neverthe-
less truly committed. And there is nc
more promise Of God that grace !.
given In the committing of the ecclesi
astical office than it is in the commit
ting Of the civil Office" (Cf. Pococls',
Burnet, 1858, w., p 1879
The Performers" denied the Sacri.
flee Of, the Mass, and therefore mos,
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 a leading promoter of the
Edwardine Ordinal, said: "wherefore
call they the Mass a sacrince?. Ever
because (say they) in the Mass, Chris:
the Son ID offered up unto God HI:
Father. Oh, what great blasphemy
is this; yea, to be abhorred Of all viz.
tuous men. Why then, do they Cal;
it a sacrifice. seeing it is but remem.
brance Of a sacrihce?" (Works, 1.-THE
Defense OF a Christian Man." PIP. 47o.
471.)
Let me end with the evidence Of the
present Bishop Of Hereford, who il
only repeating the official teaching %
the Establishment In his 1908 ad
dress at the Advent ordination il
Hereford cathedral His Lordship said
THE kingdom Of Christ has no sacer.
dotal SYSTEM 1t interposes no sacri
flcial class between God and man, NJ
class by whose Intervention alone Gu,
Is reconciled and man forgiven.
And this absence of any sacerdotu
order from the Christian church
rightly understood, is deserving Of al
the more careful attention, because
of the tendency in section OF ou
Church Of England to drift back TO-
! wards the erroneous and misleadin,
Roman doctrine of a sacrificing priesl
hood" ("Tablet" Feb. 10. 1909, p
247.)
In face Of all this accumulation 0
evidence-and have given but it'll
Of the whole-does 1t not pass com
prehension that High Anglicans shou.t
enlarge and write pamphlets on til.