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Appeal from tradition to Scripture and common sense
Appeal from tradition to Scripture and common sense Author:George Peck Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sufficiency of divine revelation to set forth and prove the doctrines of Christianity. Their fundamental principles are the same, their mode of development somet... more »imes differs ; but the discrepancies between the leading teachers of the two schools are scarcely so great as those which are discoverable between leading and learned doctors of each school respectively among themselves. SECTION IV. Pretended Distinctions between the Rule as held by the Church of England and by the Church of Rome. It is not a little annoying to many high-Churchmen to hear it said that they agree in all essential points with the Romanists. To meet the imputation of Romanism, they sometimes undertake to make distinctions where none but themselves are able to see the least difference. Mr. Goode shows most conclusively that the Oxford divines have, in several instances, in order to prove themselves anti-Papists, most miserably misrepresented and caricatured the Romish theory. On the same ground Archdeacon Manning raises three great questions upon which he makes a radical difference between Anglican and Roman Catholics in the use they make of tradition. I shall just glance at these points, and see what the essential difference is between the archdeacon and his brother Catholics of Rome. The first question is, " Whether there exists any living, infallible judge of controversy." Upon this question the archdeacon takes the negative. But bya careful examination of all he has said, it will appear that he considers the Church to be a judge of controversy, from whose decisions there is no appeal—that her authority is divine, and her determinations final, but that she is still not quite " infallible." I give the following as specimens of the character and offices of the " living judge :"— " Although it i...« less