The Question of Anglican ordinations discussed.
Publisher: Burns and Oates
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: CHAPTER I.; title: INTRODUCTORY.; title: Statement of the Question — Anglican claim for a recognition of their Orders by the Catholic Church — Present inquiry intended as an examination of such a claim — to be conducted on Catholic principles — the Catholic doctrine of the Sacrament of Holy Order assumed as the basis of the inquiry — Essentials of Ordination — Discussion in the Council of Trent — General opinion of theologians — Principles of evidence by which the inquiry will be guided, as far as concerned with historical facts i; title: CHAPTER II.; title: ORIGIN OF THE CONTROVERSY.; title: Catholic doctrine of the priesthood — never questioned within the Church — Opposition arose from without — Manichees — Waldenses — Wickliffe and Lollards — John Huss — Luther and his followers — Summary of their teaching on the subject — Bucer and Zuinglius — Canons of the Council of Trent — English Reformers — Tyndall — Lambert — Questions on the Sacraments — Cranmer and Barlow — Compilation of Anglican rite — Queen Mary's Articles — Secret history of reconciliation of kingdom — Dispensations granted by Cardinal Pole — Bonner's testimonial in favour of Scory — Ordinations conferred in schism recognised, but pronounced alias minus rite — Cardinal Pole's Legatine Faculties — two classes mentioned therein with regard to Holy Orders — cases of Thomas Barlow, Roger Barlow, Matthew Carewe, and John Gwynne — ditto in diocese of Bath and Wells — ditto of George Aynsworthe, and George Marsh — Bonner's Visitation Articles — Parkhurst's ditto — Hethe Archbishop of York — objections by Burnet and Elrington — Cases of Latimer, Ridley, Ferrar, Hooper, and Bradford — Testimony of Gardiner and Bonner 12; title: CHAPTER III.; title: HISTORY OF THE CONTROVERSY.; title: Queen Elizabeth's reign — the mere question of fact of comparatively little importance — William Barlow — his history — his embassies to Scotland — his election to St. Asaph — to St. David's — confirmation — assumed the episcopal style, though only 'elect* — Cromwell's warrant — Precedence in House of Lords — Premunire — opinions of Cranmer and Barlow about consecration — whether favoured by the King — Discovery of Grant of Temporalities — published in a defective form by Mason and the important part suppressed — its form and effect discussed — Objections — Summary of the case — Parker — his opinions on consecration — nominated Archbishop — his election — First Commission — state of embarrassment — Minute with Cecil's and Parker's notes — Second Commission — Dispensing clause — Kitchen, Hodgekyn, &c. — Consecration at Lambeth — Machyn's Diary — Reasons for believing the fact — Bill for 'making of Bishops' in Parliament of 1559 — The Register — grounds of suspicion — difference of form — Paper among Foxe's Mss. — Whether cause for suspicion that the present register is not the original — Theological discussion of effect of Barlow's non-consecration — Summary of facts proved, and of alleged facts not proved — Dr. Pusey's statement about Chichele — Story of Earl of Nottingham at the Privy Council — Catholic writers who refer to Parker's consecration — Bonner's case — Harding — Sanders — Stapleton — Anglican writers — Jewell — Fulke — Pilkington — Whitaker — Hooker — Inferences from them — Numerous converging probabilities — Testimonies as to Anglican Orders, how treated in Catholic Church — Process at Rome against Queen Elizabeth — Allen — Bristow — Parsons — Supplication to King James I. — List of Anglican clergy reconciled to the Church before 1704, and afterwards ordained — Cases alleged in opposition — William Rainolds — Cressy — Dr. Goffe — Sir H. Trelawney, &c. — Conclusion to be drawn from these facts 60; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: HISTORY OF THE CONTROVERSY.; title: Anglican position — Ordination retained as a regulation, but not as essential — Thirty-nine Articles — Cases of Whittingham, Morrison, and Travers — Rise of High Church School — Opening of the controversy — Nag's Head story — The four Catholic priests inspecting the Register at Lambeth — First stage of the controversy — Kellison and Fitzsimons — Mason — Champneys — Cosin and Prior Robinson — Gordon's case — Second stage of controversy — Morinus — Talbot — Bramhall — Lewgar — Burnet and Prideaux — Courayer — Condemnation of his works at Paris and Rome — Le Quien and Constable — Present stage of controversy — Archbishop Kenrick — Canon Raynal — Rev. A, W. Haddan — Canon Williams — Dr. Lee — Review of the whole 147; title: CHAPTER V.; title: ANCIENT RITES OF ORDINATION.; title: How far parties agreed — Imposition of hands and prayer sole essentials — Question at issue, What is to be the prayer ? — Ancient rites consulted — Greek and Oriental rites — Traces of connection between them in the similarity of prayers used in different rites — Evidence of antiquity and a common tradition therefrom — Antiquity of Latin rite — Points wherein all agree — The grace of Holy Order — Catholic doctrine of sacramental character — maintained also by Anglicans — Decree of S.C. of the Inquisition in the case of Abyssinian ordinations in 1704 and i860 — Effect of this Decree on the argument — Decision of S.C. of the Council as related by Pope Benedict XIV; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: EXAMINATION OF THE ANGLICAN RITE IN REFERENCE TO THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDER.; title: Theological principles involved — Courayer's principle examined — Principles stated by various theologians with regard to the forms of sacraments — Doctrine of Book of Common Prayer on sacramental grace — Confirmation — Anglican rite of ordination — its Lutheranism — the preface — compared with the ancient rite, so as to show the alterations, with their effect and intention — Exclude the idea of sacramental grace — Catholic authorities — Gregory Martin — Broughton — Franciscus a San eta Clara — Leander a Sancto Martino — Arch-bishop Kenrick — Objections answered — Anglican writers — Jewell — Whitgift — Hooker — Andrews — Jeremy Taylor — Bramhall — Rev. Mackenzie Walcott — Questions addressed to the Ordinandi and Bishop-elect — Objections answered — Summary of argument 194; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: THE ANGLICAN RITE IN REFERENCE TO THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE EUCHARIST.; title: Importance of this question — Former modes of argument — Decisions of the Church in reference to the delivery of the chalice with the formula Accipe potestatem , &c. — Considered practically essential — Whether would this rule involve Anglican rite or not ? — Lutheran objections to this formula — The Bishop of Brandenburg — Arch-bishop Herman of Cologne — Anglican rite — Alterations from the ancient rite on this point — Thirty-first Article — Meaning of word * priest* in Book of Common Prayer — Examination of same Book with regard to doctrine of Holy Eucharist — Canon of the Mass — Luther's tenets as to Holy Sacrifice and Real Presence — English Reformers — their tenets derived from Wickliffe — Cranmer — Latimer — Coverdale — Ridley — Order of Communion — Book of 1549 — Comparison of it with the Sarum Missal — Further changes — Bucer — Peter Martyr — Hooper — Grindall — Jewell — Catholic doctrines denied in the Book of Common Prayer — Objections on Anglican side — Mr. Haddan — Replies to them — Declaration of doctrine of Holy Sacrifice drawn up for the Council of Trent 260; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: POPE PIUS IV. AND THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.; title: Anglican story of the Pope's offer to Queen Elizabeth — A parallel to the Nag's Head story — Evidence for it — Coke — Andrews — Abbot — Camden — Letter of the Pope — Fuller — Heylin — Twysden — Bartholomew Clerke — Bull — Evidence on the other side — Parsons — Fulke — Percivall Wy borne — The real facts as far as ascertained — Came's despatches — John Sheres' information — Letter of the Abbate di San Salute (Vincenzio Parpaglia) — The Nuncio not admitted into the realm, and the Pope's letter never delivered — Reasons for dis-believing the alleged offer from the Pope — Catholics said to have frequented Protestant churches — Statement in Parliament proving the contrary 354; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: CONCLUSION.; title: Review of the argument — Conclusion arrived at — Summary of reasons for it — Objections answered — Dr. Newman's argument — The tuquoque replies to it inapplicable — Do Anglicans in general appreciate the real importance of the question ? — Involves the whole doctrine of sacramental grace 371; title: Additional Notes 38; title: Errata 382; title: APPENDIX.; title: NO.; title: I. Decision of S.C. of the Council respecting the Ordination of a priest, as related by Pope Benedict XIV. i; title: II. Lutheran manifestoes on the subject of Ordination ix; title: III. Opinion of Zuinglius on the subject of Holy Order xviii; title: IV. Letters Patent granting Barlow the temporalities of the see of St. David's, 26th April, 28 Henry VIII., 1536 xix; title: V. Letter from Barlow to Cromwell, 23d May 1536 xxiii; title: VI. Warrant from Sir Thomas Cromwell to Sir Bryan Tuke to pay Clarenceux King-at-Arms his 1 dietts,' for attending the King's Ambassadors to Scotland, 12th June 1536 xxiv; title: VI. Extracts from the Journals of the House of Lords xxv; title: VII. Register of Ridley's consecration, 3d Sept. 1547 xxvi; title: VIII. Register of Ferrar's consecration, 9th Sept. 1548 xxvii; title: IX. Note of an Inquisition as to the vacancies of the bishopric of St. David's, and the disposal of the temporalities during the same, 17th April 1550 xxviii; title: X. Minutes of Privy Council committing Hethe Bishop of Worcester to prison for refusing to subscribe the Book of making of Bishops, &c., z2d Sept. 1551 xxix; title: XI. Letter from Henry Pyning to Cardinal Pole, London, 19th Sept. 1553 xxxi; title: XII. Letter from Cardinal Pole to Pope Julius III., 30th Sept. 1553; title: XIII. Dispensation from Cardinal Pole to Robert Wharton, called Bishop of St. Asaph, White, Bourne, Brookes, Cotes, Morgan, and Griffith, Bishops designate, 17th March 1554 xxxvi; title: XIV. Letter from Goldwell to Thomden Bishop of Dover, 16th June 1554 xxxviii; title: XV. Dispensations from Cardinal Pole to Thomas Thirlby, called Bishop of Norwich, 19th Aug. 1554, and to Tunstall and other Bishops xl; title: XVI. Extract from Gardiner's sermon, 2d Dec. 1554 xliii; title: XVII. Intelligence sent from England to Rome, 28th Jan. 1555 xliv; title: XVIII. Faculties granted to the Bishops by Cardinal Pole, 29th Jan. 1555 xlvi; title: XVIII. Dispensation from Cardinal Pole to John Hodgekyn, of the Order of Preachers, 27th March 1555 li; title: XIX. Dispensation from Rome to Hethe Archbishop of York, 30th Oct. 1555 liii; title: XX. Confession of George Aynsworthe, 2d Oct. 1555 lv; title: XXI. Dispensations from Cardinal Pole to Thomas Barlow, Roger Barlow, John Gwynne, and Matthewe Carewe, 31st May 1557, &c. lv; title: XXII. Letter from Vincenzio Parpaglia, Abbate di San Salute, to the Bishop of Vercelli, Nuncio at Venice, 8th Sept. 1560 lviii; title: XXIII. Extracts from the Process against Queen Elizabeth, and the Sentence of Pope Pius V. thereon decreed, 6th Feb. 1570 lix; title: XXIV. Extracts from the first and second volumes of the Diarium of the English College at Douay, 1577-1601 lxii; title: XXV. Examination of John Chapman, Seminary priest, 7th Aug. 1582 lxvi; title: XXVI. Confession of John Vyvyan, Seminary priest, 8th May 1585 lxxi; title: XXVII. Letter from Sir Francis Knollys to Sir Francis Walsingham, 20th March 1588 lxxii; title: XXVIII. Extracts from the Archives of the English College at Rome, 1606-1704 lxx; title: XXIX. Mandate of the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris condemning Courayer's works, aist August 1717 lxxv; title: XXX. Extracts from Censure of French Bishops on propositions extracted from Courayer's works, aad Aug. 1727 lxxvii; title: XXXI. Extracts from Pastoral Instruction of the Cardinal Arch- bishop of Paris on the same, 31st Oct. 1727 lxxxv; title: XXXII. Brief of Pope Benedict XIII. condemning Courayer's works, 25th June 1 728 xcv; title: XXXIII. Comparison of parallel passages in the Greek and Oriental forms of Ordination xcviii; title: XXXIV. Decree of the S.C. of the Inquisition on the Ordinations of the Monophysites in Abyssinia, 9th May i860, reciting a former Decree of 9th April 1704 cviii; title: XXXV. Rite of conferring Sacred Orders among the Monophysites in Abyssinia cxi; title: XXXVI. Decree of S.C. of the Inquisition in the case of John Clement Gordon, 17th April 1704 cxv; title: FACSIMILES.; title: Minute of proceedings necessary for the Consecration of an Archbishop or Bishop ; with Notes in Cecil's and Parker's handwriting, 1559 To face page 86; title: Part of the draft of the Letters Patent for Parker's Consecration, with the autograph signatures of the Civilians, 1559 To face page 88; title: Memorandum in a contemporary handwriting of Parker's Consecration Frontispiece