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A Guide to Ecclesiastical Law for Church-Wardens and Parishioners
A Guide to Ecclesiastical Law for ChurchWardens and Parishioners Author:Henry Miller 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: an effectual sign of grace, by which God works invisibly in us, but only in such as worthily receive it—in them alone it has a wholesome effect—and that, without... more » reference to the qualification of the recipient, it is not in itself an effectual sign of grace, that infants baptized and dying before actual sin are undoubtedly saved; but that in no case is regeneration in Baptism unconditional. On appeal to the Privy Council, their Lordships ruled that the doctrine held by Mr. Gorham is not contrary or repugnant to the declared doctrine of the Church of England as by law established. The Real Presence. 201.—Sheppakd-v. Bennett. In this case the Privy Council judicially affirmed that— 1. " The Church of England holds and teaches affirmatively that in the Lord's Supper the Body and Blood of Christ are given to, taken, and received by the faithful communicant. She implies, therefore, to that extent a presence of Christ in the ordinance to the soul of the worthy recipient. As to the mode of this presence she affirms nothing, except that the Body of Christ is 'given, taken, and eaten in the Supper only after an heavenly and spiritual manner,' and that ' the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten is faith.' Any other presence than this—any presence which is not a presence to the soul of the faithful receiver—the Church does not by her Articles and Formularies affirm or require her ministers to accept. This cannot be stated too plainly." 2. "The Church of England by the statement in the 28th Article of Eeligion that the Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Lord's Supper, only after a heavenly and spiritual manner, excludes undoubtedly any manner of giving, taking, or receiving, which is not heavenly or spiritual." See C. A. Tracts 25, 94, 108 and ...« less