[116]Neale’s Few Words of Hope, p. 22.
[120]No doubt there are persons whose habitual view is so absorbed in the majesty of human law, that they appear to forget there is any higher law with which we have to do. “Sir, I have had the honour to receive your letter, in which you intimate to me your intention of violating the law,” was an answer of some celebrity in its day. Perchance the question had not presented itself to the writer’s mind,
“What law is that?’Tis not the law of God, nor yetaboveit.”
“What law is that?’Tis not the law of God, nor yetaboveit.”
[122]Convocations and Synods, by an Anglican Layman, p. 6.
[124]Convocations and Synods, p. 11–14.
[125a]Archdeacon Manning’s Letter, p. 23.
[125b]Ibid. p. 41.
[126]Manning, p. 23.
[127]Bramhall’s Works, p. 141. See also Manning’s Sermon on the Rule of Faith.
“The Church of England so far from submitting either the rule, or her decisions according to the rule, to the judgment of her individual members, will not submit them even to the judgment of particular Churches, or to any tribunal less than that to which all particular churches are subject, that is, a general council, of which either the members shall trulyrepresentthe Church Catholic, or the decrees be universallyreceived. * *“We therefore no more submit the doctrinal decisions of the Church to the judgment of individual minds, than the canon of Scripture itself. We do acknowledge an authority higher than either the Church of England, or of Rome in particular. What hinders an appeal to that tribunal, Dr. Wiseman knows as well as we. But if such a council, truly general, freely assembled, should meet to-morrow, the rule of its decisions would be, ‘non sua posteris tradere, sed a majoribus accepta servare.’”—Pp. 25, 26, note.
“The Church of England so far from submitting either the rule, or her decisions according to the rule, to the judgment of her individual members, will not submit them even to the judgment of particular Churches, or to any tribunal less than that to which all particular churches are subject, that is, a general council, of which either the members shall trulyrepresentthe Church Catholic, or the decrees be universallyreceived. * *
“We therefore no more submit the doctrinal decisions of the Church to the judgment of individual minds, than the canon of Scripture itself. We do acknowledge an authority higher than either the Church of England, or of Rome in particular. What hinders an appeal to that tribunal, Dr. Wiseman knows as well as we. But if such a council, truly general, freely assembled, should meet to-morrow, the rule of its decisions would be, ‘non sua posteris tradere, sed a majoribus accepta servare.’”—Pp. 25, 26, note.
[128]See Appendix H.
[131]Second Letter, p. 80.