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Price Five Cents. ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA fiE^ ERAL SYNOa ARCHIVES m¥ T^jC>. \ THE PRINCIPLES OF THE REFORMATION. A LETTER, &c. Oentlemex, In the London Times, 19th Nov., appeal's an interesting letter from Mr. G. Brodrigk, who was present at Ottawa during the debate which ended in the resignation of Sir John Macs DONALD. Mr. B. refers to " the extreme lengths to which party warfare is carried, at the instigation of a inost virulent, unscru* pulous Press." Then he goes on to say : — " Even when the hitting was hardest and wildest, what Lord Du^^erin aptly calls * striking below the belt,' was very rare." " The whole temper of the debate was distinctively English, and not American." Now, gentlemen, it has pleased you to publish in the Globe, Mail, and Leader, a long letter, which amounts morally, if not legally, to a malicious libel. The clergy and laity of Holy Trinity Chui-ch are not mentioned, but all who know the city must see that we are pointed at. I wonder much, whether any of the laymen, thus shamefully held up to public icqxn, intend to take up the matter. But for my part, I believe that good may be got out of this unprovoked attack. We have difficulty in rousing sufficient interest in religious questions, unless a personal element be intro- duced. The Globe has published a brief letter of mine to Chief Justice Draper, but the Mail and Leader have declined ; the Mail inserting, however, a Iettf;r from Mr. Darling. Seeing that Chief Justice Draper is not my Judge, I am careless as to . what may be his private opinion of me and my doctrine. But he and his friend Mr. Homer Dixon have been guilty of au open insult to our " beloved Church," in thus publicly insulting some of her Priests. If Mr. Homer DiXON will turn to -the Uiad of the other Homer, he will find the first word, one that means lasting wrath. What wonder if the clergy are sometimes roused beyond cfiJiirance ; not so much on account of personal calumny, but because he that despiseth God's minister, despiseth Christ Himself. In his published letter, Mr. Darling has dealt with the question of our unfaithfulness, and thus shown clearly who are the traitoi-s. It seems to me, that a crisis is at hand, similar to that under which our Sister Church in tioe States is beginning to suffer. Bishop Cum- mins has roused the courage of his opinions, and openly organized » new Church. It is not probable that you, gentlemen, will follow that example. I only wish that our Bishop felt himself strong enough to follow the course of Bishop Whitehouse, in the matter of Mr. Cheney. If the Dean of the so-called Cathedral of S. James, thought fit to organise a similar Church, no doubt his devoted followers would amply repay any pecuniary saciifice entailed. At all events, I know he would gain the respect of many honest though obscure Churchmen in this diocei^e. I am obliged to listen to many a bitter sarcasm directed at the present system pursued in that " pure and refoimed " congregation : sarcasms which I would never allow to be uttered in my hearing, unless I felt them to be, alas ! alas ! all too true. These are matters which I would shrink from, drawing public attention to, were I not forced to ask the Public Opinion of intelligent Churchmen in out-spoken Canada? to consider whether it is seemly for these men to come forward as public accusers of their brethren. Clearly, they come under the reproof of the Fstilmist, in that they have sat and slandered their own mother's son : their mother Iteing tlte Chtirch of Christ, and her sons myself and others. One thing more, before I proceed to speak about doctrine When this new Association was formed, a very beautiful and eminently Christian letter was addressed by the Bishop to it, signed by him as President of the Church Union. But no such courtesy as an answer, or even formal acknowledgment, was ever vouchsafed. The Church Union implored them to consider whether they could not join us on the broad basis of the Church of England, as existing in the several congregations in the city. It is greatly to be wished, that the letter should be published, in order that the Public might see, whether Vice-Chancellor Blake was justified in denouncing the Union as he did in Synod. But now as to doctrine. 1st, of Bajitism ; and, 2ndly, the Supper of the Lord. Whether the doctrine of new-birtli in Baptism be true or not, can any honest man doubt that the Prayer Book teaches it > You laymen have never been called on to give youv unfeigned assent oiid consent to that book, and witli hII solemnity to declare your belief, that the Prayer Book contains nothing contmry to God's word. But the clergy have solemnly declared this, in the sight of God and His Church. We hav« promised and vowed to teach, that the baptized are the elect, the election being to privileges, not to actual possession. Nor do«'s this inteifere with conversion, but ratlier is the cause of it. It is because we are sorts that we pi-odigals, feeling the movings of grace, arise and go to our Father. If we are ever to oppose the Antinomian heresy, it must be by teaching, as the Apostles all did, that we are answerable for grace already given. I solemnly appeal to men who can think, and I ask* them to judge for themselves, which doctrine is most liable to be perverted to our destruction, and which chimes in most readily with our cori'upt leanings. The Chureh Universal, in all her branches, says this to us : — " You are brought into a state of salvation, which is not absolute, but has to be worked out in fear and trembling. You have been translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son ; for aa many as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ, Kemember that God, having saved tlie people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them who believed not. Already you are in some mysterious way a partaker of the Holy Spirit : grieve Him not, or at last you may quench Him !" Or shall we say to sinners : — " When grace is given you, it will be irresistible : if you have not felt that grace, you have not pai*taken of it. You have only been baptized with water ; seek the baptism of the Spirit, and all will be right. You will be justified ; all your sins will be forgiven, and you wid then begin to live to God." Do we not know practically, that hundreds go beyond what the teacher intends, in the same direction, and say, *' Well, then we will wait God's time for our conversion. What part have we a« yet in David 1 What interest in Christ? Let us live to the world till God takes our salvation into His own hand ; and by working in us this change, gives us a hope which now we have not." Do you not know how this teaching is as dangerous as any Roman teaching can be 1 The Chureh Universal tells the baptized sinner, living carelessly, that unless he repent, his condemnation will be that of one wfto hag received the grace of God in vain. The Chureh never dares make her teaching even imply, that we may continue in sin that grace may abound. But, 2ndly, as to the Supper of the Lord. You, gentlemen, a FALSELY, and in a moat unchrUtian spirit, charge us with nnfaith- fulness, because we use the term Altar, and call ourselves in some sort " Sacrificing Priests." In reply, I will briefly indicate the line of argument I have used in teaching publicly. If my doctrine be false, you are at liberty to prosecute me openly. When our Service Books had to be translated into English, what word did our Reformers use, to render Sacerdos intol They might have employed in all places, as they did in some, the term Minister or Pastor ; but as they adopted the term Priest, I suppose they intended to preserve the ideas attached to the word at the time. At that very time, the Presbyterians rejected the word Priest, on account of the ideas belonging to it. As I have beforo stated, the Reformation took three distinct lines. In England, Bishops, Clergy, and Laity combined in the movement : the succession was unbroken, and the Church system remained entire and cleansed from some defilements. But in Germany, Luther, a priest was joined only by priests, and so was driven to a new doctrine, that priests can ordain priests ; while in Geneva, Calvin, not being in priest's ordei-s yet receiving the income of three livings, was also driven to another new doctrine, viz. that we can do without priesthood or sacraments. Christ, he said, was the mdy Priest of the New Testament ; and to say that any one, even an Apostle, was a Priest, is to take from the honour due to Christ alone. This is like saying, that no king can have an ambassador at another kin(;;'s court; whereas, S. Paul says, we are ambassadors for Christ. On the same principle, Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, can have no Justice or Chief Justice in Canada; which is a con- summation devoutly to be wished, if they are all like Chief Justice Draper, aUmderers of their brethren. But Calvin had also to get rid of the sacraments, and most effectually has he done it ; if, alas ! that remarkable book be true, called "A Presbyterian Clin-gyman in Search of the Church." They must be called " bare signs ;" symbols of grace, but not conveying grace : let us separate the sign from the thing signified. The faiiih of the receiver, not the act of consecration, must be the cause of grace : which is like saying, " Believe the sun is in the sky, it is there : believe it is not, and it is gone." In future, every man must be his own priest. The name and o£Blce of priest, then, which the English Church has consistently retained, and the Calvinists as consistently rejected, is the token and seal of our distinct systems. Let then an enlightened public discern (as no -m^'^m^mm^asm'^. doubt will be the case sooner or later), whether we or our accuHera nre the more faithful to the existing pure and refoimed Church of England. < But let me briefly indicate the line of proof whereby we show that ours is the Bible doctrine. We admit that the term liiereus, or priest, is not applied in the New Testament to the office-bearers. But we look for the idea; because the priestly system of Divine worship was spread everywhere in a few years. A true priesthood attaches to all Christians, but there is also a true ministering priesthood. Our blessed Lord is most cei^tainly the Priest of the New Co^^enant ; but as there was a line of priests leading up to His first advent, so there is also a line. of priests following it, and preparing for His second. In fact, there are three classes of Scriptures on this doctrine. 1st. The notices by the way. 2nd. The terms of the original commission. And, 3rd. The direct statements. Under the 1st head we have this : — The support of the ministry being in question, S. Paul refers to the law of the sons of Aaron, "They who minister about holy things, live of the things of the temple ; even so hath the Lord ordained, that they who preach the gospel should live of the gospel." Upon which one may remark that, if report speaks true, the Dean of St. James's cathedral is fairly well endowed ; whereas the stipends of the Clergy of Holy Trinity, if rolled into one, and then multiplied by ten, would hardly surpass his share of good things. But the most striking of the incidental passages is from S. Paul to the Bomans. Dwelling on the grace given him for his office, he uses entirely the terms of the priesthood : '* That I should be the minister (in our translation) leitourgon in Greek, a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles, that the offering up (another word used in a Jewish saciifice), of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified (again a sacrificial term) by the Holy Ghost." Again, writing to the Corinthians, he urges an entire separation from idol-worship ; and, in so doing, speaks first of the cup of blessing, then of the bread we break, and then this: « Behold Israel after the flesh ; are not they who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar ) What say I then % that the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? But I say, that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils : I do not wish you to become communicants of devils." The table and cup of devils axe opposed to those of the Lord. They thought the demon was personally present, though 9 invisible ; Hiid the Apostl* winhes them to uuderMtttud, that what the heathen worahi|)])er believed to be the object of hia offering, ih uiaile i-eul in the Christian aaciilice, for that Christ is present in a heavenly and spiritual manner r a manner all the more real, l>ecause it is heavenli/ and gpiritual. I i-espectfuUy submit to tlie Clerical members of this great and good Society, that such is my own belief re8i>ecting this most holy mystery. But I pass, 2ndly, to the terms of the original commission, which we have to gather from scattered notices. Speaking of admission into the covenant, the commission runs, '* Go ye and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them, d, as St. John says we are, we had better work in our several parishes on our own plans. Nothing, in my view, can be more hollow and delusive than the pretence of working together. But in other matters, in social family life, and in urg- ing forward a better understanding of the ground we have chosen, something hais been attempted here in the City in our Church Union ; and the men who have refused to join us on the broad basis oi obedience to our church- head— our Bishop — ^have come forward now, and publicly made an attack on us, and ao worded it as to point the finger of scorn at the clergy and laity particularly of this congregation. We of the clergy are so accustomed to this kind of treatment, that we do not much lay to heart this charge against us a» clergy ; but we much grieve that our less instructed brethren through all thia Dominion should possibly be misled by that which is from beginning to end eniireiy false. This is my only reason for drawing attention to a public statement intended to hinder us in our up hill work. It is not my intention (I speak only for myself) to take farther notice cf this matter, but simply to say publicly that I repudiate the charge of being unfaithfal 12 to the prino^plea of the Reformation as expressed in the Pfaycr Booh qfthe Ckareh qf England. To the Calvinistic teaching which s«. ne of the clergy think fit to favour, I as publicly declare my unbounded hostility. As lonfi as I am permitted to teach here, I shall never cease to declare that the Prayer Book, in my estimation, cannot ba reconciled with that terrible heresy. We clergy have to give our unfeigned assent and consent to all and ever3rthing contained in that book, and that it contains nothing contrary to (Jod's word. If in our solemn times of study, and above all in the more solemn hour of ordination, we paUer with this question, let our Almighty Judge judge us, but let as reject at such times and for ever the judgement of any earthly Chief Justice." This much I publicly stated last evening to our congregation, and I have since added this in a letter to the Chief Justice : " 'Tis sweet to see an engineer hoist with his own petard ; so nothing cap give me more pleasui') than to sea a Chief Justice brought to the bar of an enlightened public opinion." I am, Sir, Yours obediently, Edwin Day. ■*?' ■4 Toronto, December 8, 1878 h i