Life of the Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce: D.D., Lord Bishop of Oxford and Afterwards of Winchester, with Selections from His Diaries and Correspondence, Volume 2John Murray, 1881 |
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Page 36 - Catechism, severally contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland.
Page 37 - Gorham appears to us to be this — that Baptism is a Sacrament generally necessary to salvation, but that the grace of regeneration does not so necessarily accompany the act of Baptism that regeneration invariably takes place in Baptism ; that the grace may be granted before, in, or after Baptism ; that Baptism is 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 reference to the...
Page 381 - wherein are contained by way of question and answer these damnable positions, contrary to the Book of Common Prayer, and the Liturgy of the Church of England, — that is to say, in one place you have thus written — "
Page 412 - Oh ! it is impossible to say ! Time must show and new combinations. I told John Russell that what I wished to see was, him in the House of Lords at the head of the Government and Gladstone leading the Commons.
Page 353 - It is neither Disestablishment, nor even loss of dogmatic truth, -which I look upon as the greatest danger before us, but it is the loss of those elementary principles of right and wrong on which Christianity itself must be built. The present position of the Church of England is gradually approximating to the Erastian, theory, that the business of an establishment is to teach all sorts of doctrines and to provide Christian ordinances by way of comfort for all sorts of people, to be used at their...
Page 36 - After litigation had thus commenced, and Mr. Gorham had called upon the Bishop to state why institution was refused, it became evident that the reasons must be considered upon legal principles, and it was perhaps reasonably to be expected that both parties would require a strict and formal proceeding, in which what was the particular unsound doctrine imputed to Mr. Gorham would have been distinctly alleged which constituted his alleged offence. " Unfortunately this course was not adopted. The Bishop...
Page 239 - The question then before me is this ; are these errors, as I esteem them, of so grave a character as to render it my duty to allow my office to be used to promote an attempt to eject you from the ministry of the English Church...
Page 211 - I cannot but think that in contending for a truth you have been led into an exaggeration of its proportions. Will you, then, suffer me to try whether I can aid you to make that truth more plain ? " (1) What, then, I understand to be charged against you is this : That you teach ' that the revelation of God's love given to us in the Gospel is incompatible with His permitting any of the creatures He has loved to be consigned to never-ending torment; and that you therefore do, with more or less clearness,...
Page 324 - It is high time that there should be a careful argument upon the justice and morality of late ecclesiastical proceedings ; that the Archbishop should be awakened out of his fool's paradise, and made to understand that, though reverence for his office has up to this time, in a wonderful manner, kept people silent about his proceedings, yet the time has come when a beginning must be made towards describing them without circumlocution in their true colours ; and it must likewise be shown how judicial...