" George Tyrrell, who had had his own experiences, ex- claims: “Peace is more necessary even that Sacraments, which men can give and take away at pleasure, and use as a whip." ("Life," by Miss Petre, ii, p. 305). Мо words could better show Tyrrell's emancipation.
6 “An answer to my Lord of Winchester's Book," 1547, in "Early Writings of Bishop Hooper," Parker Society, p. 129.
" “That the Almighty has given it a charter, like an in- surance company, of a monopoly of salvation in this portion of the Universe, and agreed to keep his hands ой”--ав Mr. Winston Churchill not unaptly puts it (‘‘The Inside of the Cup pas):
^5 “The Rule of Faith," 1912, pp. 240ff. Cf., what is said of the Church in the Romish system by H. Bavinck, Het Christendom, 1912, pp. 33, 36: “АП this superabundant grace (and truth) Christ has committed to his Church for distribu- tion. In it he himself continues to live on earth; it is the perpetuation of his incarnation; in the Mass he repeats in an unbloody manner his sacrifice on the cross; through the priest he communicates his grace in the sacraments; through
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the infallible mouth of the Pope he leads his Church into the truth. The Church is thus, above everything, the institute of salvation, no assembly of believers or communion of saints, but in the first place a supernatural institute es- tablished by God in order to preserve and distribute here on earth the saving benefits of grace and truth. Whatever may be lacking to believers in doctrine and life, the Church abides the same, for it has its center in the priesthood and sacraments and in them remains partaker everlastingly of the attributes of unity and holiness, of catholicity and apostolicity" (p. 33). “The Church alone can break the power of the seduction (of the devil and his angels), and it does that in the most manifold ways, by its sacraments and sacramentation, by holy actions (blessings, benedic- tions, exorcisms) and by holy things (amulets, phylacteries, scapularies, etc.); so long as the natural is not hallowed by the Church, it remains profane and of lower rank ” (p.36).
? Conc. Trid. Sess. xxii, ch. 2.
? We do not pause to inquire how far, in the modern Romish system, the Pope has absorbed into himself the functions of the Church, and become, as George Tyrrell would say, in a separate capacity, the representative and substitute of Christ on earth. Cf. the “Joint Pastoral of the English Catholic Hierarchy" of Dec. 29, 1900, and the controversy which arose from it, a good brief account of which is given by Miss Petre in her "Life of Tyrrell,” vol. ii, ch. vii, pp.146-161.
51 Symbolik, pp. 332, 333.
52 Conc. Trid. Sess. vii, Proem.
55 Op. cil, p. 244.
5414.
5 «His Divine Majesty," London, 1897, р. 191ff.
% Dr. J. Armitage Robinson has taught modern Anglicans to translate Eph. i, 23 : “Тһе Church is the completion of Him who all in all is being fulfilled": and those of sacerdotal
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tendency have not been slow to utilize this understanding of the text in its entirety. Cf. W. Temple in “Foundations,” 1912, pp. 340, 359.
xA J. Knox Little, ‘‘Sacerdotalism,” 1894, pp. 46, 47.
58 “Outlines of Christian Dogma,” 1900, pp. 107, 123.
9 p. 149.
® A. G. Mortimer, ‘Catholic Faith and Practice," 1897, i, pp. 65, 82, 84, 100, 114, 120, 122, 127, cf. 130.
1 Cf. p. 130: “By the Incarnation and Atonement of Christ, human nature as a whole was taken into God and as a whole was saved. But’’—As if there could be апу "but" after this!
? Query : Is there any such thing as the "race" apart from the individuals which constitute the race? How could the Incarnation and Atonement affect the "race" and leave the individuals which constitute the race untouched?
@ Title of a volume of Lutheran polemics by the late Dr. CG E Кта
“Е, F. Karl Müller, Die Bekenntnischriften der reformirten Kirche, 1903, p. 451.
9? Samuel Huber, born 1547, died 1624, Professor at Wittenburg 1592-1595, was the standard example of a “‘holo- predestinarian” for the next age. But the relevant teaching of this “embittered martyr of universalism” seems to have begun only in connection with the Miimpelgart Colloquy (1586). А good accountof him may be found in A. Schweitzer, Die protestantischen Centraldogmen, 1854, i, pp. 501ff; see also G. Müller's article in Herzog. How the matter is dealt with by the Seventeenth Century dogmaticians may be seen in Hollaz, Exam. Theolog. Acroam. 1741, p. 643, or in Quenstedt, Theologia Didactico-Polemica, 1715, ii, p. 72. Quenstedt tells us that Sebastian Castalio was the architect of the error of universal election and was followed by Samuel Huber, who absurdly taught that “Election is universal, that God chose all men really, properly and unambiguously
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to salvation, without any regard to faith." He adds that Huber had no followers and that his error was extinct.
9 Edinburgh 1904, р. 282.
% London and New York, 1912, рр. 310-313.