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Some Remarks on the Essay by Dr. Lightfoot on the Christian Ministry

Some Remarks on the Essay by Dr. Lightfoot on the Christian Ministry

Wordsworth, Charles

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ISBN10: 145887043X
ISBN13: 9781458870438
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... IN ALL ORDINARY FUNCTIONS. 35 spoken, is to be found at all; 'Episcopacy still lies beyond the horizon.' (p. 196.) Now certainly this is not the view which English Divines, under the teaching of the Fathers, have been accustomed to take hitherto; and so far Dean Stanley is quite correct and justified in pointing to Dr. Lightfoot's Essay as the commencement of a new era in the Anglican treatment of this question. They would have granted to Dr. Lightfoot that 'the functions of the Apostles and the (Prelatical) Bishops were not identical'; that they 'differed widely';--not so widely, however, but that the latter office was substantially a continuation of the former, so far as circumstances widely different (the founding and building up of Churches) admitted and required. They would not have allowed that the Prelatical Episcopate was 'a development from the subordinate office' (p. 194); if this is to mean that the subordinate office had ever the right or the possession of supreme Government, or of Ordination, or of Confirmation; nor admitted it in any other sense than that men were commonly Presbyters before they were made (Prelatical) Bishops, whether directly by the Apostles, or by other (Prelatical) Bishops whom some one or more of the Apostles had previously consecrated as such. And I cannot but think that the Scriptural proof is as clear to this effect, nay clearer, than it is to the 'firm and wide establishment of the two lower orders of the threefold Ministry' which Dr. Lightfoot allows (p. 193). Where, indeed, we may ask, are those two Orders seen without a Prelate to ordain them first, and to guide and govern 36 THE CASE OF EPHESUS them afterwards 1 Nowhere! Where are they ever found as self-sufficient for their own government, or thenown propagation...

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