of prevailing error, who adopt a maxim unsanctioned either by the Gofpel or experience, that false opinions, if let alone, will die of themselves. These are patterns of discretion, after which I feel no wish to copy. The Bible has taught me, what it will teach every man who is difpofed to learn, that there can be no compromise between truth and error. If, therefore, the doctrine maintained in my book respecting the church, as a fociety of CHRIST's framing, be true; the conclufions drawn from it must stand their ground, how unpalatable foever they may be to thofe Chriftians, who, "instead of drawing living water for the use of the fanctuary from the fresh Springs of antiquity, take up with fuch as comes to them at fecond or third hand from the Lake of Geneva.” The cause I have taken in hand, I am well aware is not a popular one. That weak and temporizing conduct, by which many of the cabinets of Europe have contributed to the fuccefs of the defolating fyftem of French policy, feems to be the conduct which is judged to be beft fuited to the present circumstances of the church. The confequence, it is to be feared, will be, that that deluge of fectarianism which is now inundating our land on every fide, will in the end fweep away every barrier which the constitution of this country has to oppose to its deftructive progress. This idea, however, is not likely, at this time, to be generally adopted. The loofe habit of thinking, which conftitutes one of the characteristics of the prefent day, must be unfavourable to an advocate for established order. But that minister of the church who is not prepared to go through evil report, has undertaken an office for which he is unqualified. "If they have called the mafter of the house beelzebub, how much more fhall they call them of his household." MATT. X. 24, 25. When I confider what the church of England has been, and what she now is, (to make use of the strong language of a very great man) "like an oak, cleft to fhivers with wedges made out of its own body," it is not without anxiety that I look forward. When I confider, moreover, that the established church of England, an undoubted branch of the church of CHRIST, furnishes the beft fecurity for the prefervation both of Chriftian doctrine and the peace and happiness of my country; my earneft prayer to GoD is, that she may be restored to Apoftolic purity. Should it, however, be the will of that Being who ruleth in all the kingdoms of the earth, that, in judgment for the defertion of her profeffing friends, or the general unworthinefs of her members, the enemies of the church fhall be permitted to lay her honour in the dust, as a minister fincerely attached to her caufe, I feel no wish to furvive the fatal event. OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS. AUGUSTIN PAGE 3, 8, 125 49 63, 64 ANDREWS Bishop, on the Name of Bishops Apoftles and Bishops diftinguished Authority of a Text generally brought in Favour of Presby- terian Ordination, denied by CALVIN Articles, Homilies, and Liturgy confiftent AUGUSTIN ST. on Divine Decrees Article, Ninth and Tenth, Doctrine of 74 172 Eleventh, Doctrine of Seventh, Doctrine of Seventeenth Articles, Anti-Calvinistic ANDREWS Bishop, on the Minifterial Commiffion Article Nineteenth -particularly quoted ANDREWS Bishop, on the Corruption of the Gospel BURNETT Bishop, his Comment on the Nineteenth Article Baptism of Diffenters Bishop and Presbyter, distinction between 36 37 47 Babel, the City of Confufion, applied by Bishop ANDREWS 353 Broad-bottom Chapels 438 BACON Lord, his Confeffion of Faith 479 CALVINISM, not the Standard by which to judge of Chriftians Charity, the great characteristic of Chriftianity Church, the Candlestic Pillar and Ground of Truth Church Government, built on the commiffion originally deli- CLEMENS CHRYSOSTOM, fpeaking of IGNATIUS 3 S 13 13 27 CALVIN'S Judgment of Diffenters from the Epifcopacy of the Church of England CLEMENT ST. on Epifcopal Government CRANMER CALVINISM deemed Heresy CHRIST's Church, feparate Branches of Church, independent of the Civil Power Condition of Episcopal, in Scotland and America and State, not neceffarily connected of CHRIST, a vifible Society 44 ΙΟΣ 153, 173 168 106, 107 93 94 III 113 CALVINISTIC Doctrine, not the genuine Senfe of the Church Church of England Service not out of the Church CARTWRIGHT, CAMPBELL CLEMENT ST. Diffenter, Judgment of, left to GOD not to be filenced Doctrine and Establishment of the Church, equally effential |