The most active controversy in reference to the question of ordination prevailing in the United States at the present time is between the high and low church- men of the Protestant Episcojjal Church. The former appear to have been advancing within recent years both in numbers and the assertion of principles of ex- clusiveness and intolerance. As a result a new organ- ization was formed in 1873, entitled the Reformed Epis- copal Church. That Church, organized under the su- pervision of the late bishop George D. Cummins, claims to represent the Protestant views and practices of the Church of England as understood and vindicated by the Reformers of the period of Edward YI, and prior to the papal reaction under Bloody Marv. While professing and practicing episcopal ordination, it does not deny the validity of other forms following Scripture prece- dent and applied to godly men. On the principle of succession, whatever of validity inliered in the orders of the Protestant E])iscopal Church was handed down to the Reformed Episcopal Cluircli by episcopal ordina- tions from the seceding bishop before the attempt to invalidate his authority bj' excommunication could be consummated. Thus a somewhat new form of issue
pertaining to the question of ordination is opened be- tween representative classes or grades of Episcopalians. VI. The literature of the subject of ordination and orders is mingled from first to last with that of the Roman Catholic and High-Church controversies, being rarely found in direct and separate treatises on either side. While an exhaustive list would require alto- gether too much space, the classified selection herewith given will be found sufficient for any ordinary extent of investigation.
1. Historical. — Schaff, Hist, of the Apostolic Church; Killen, Ancient Church; Mosheim, Hist, of the First Three Centuries; The "Apostolic Constitutions;" 'Siag-- hum, Antiquities of the Christian Church; Coleman, Christian Antiquities; Campbell, Zeciwres on Ecclesias- tical History ; The Bible, the Missal, and the Breviary.
2. Romanistic. — Bellarmine, Z^e Ordine; Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent ; Catechism of the Coun- cil of Trent ; Kenrick, On the Primacy ; id. On A n- glican Ordinations ; Wiseman, On High-Church Claims; Milner, End of Controversy.
3. A nii-Romanistic. — Beza, T>e Ecclesia ; Willet, Sy- nopsis Papismi ; Cramp, Text-Book of Pojiery ; Elliott, Romanism ; Barrow, On the Supi-emacy ; Palmer, Let- ters to Wiseman on the Errors oj Romanism ; Hopkins, " End of Controversy" Controverted.
4. Anglican Pi-elutical. — Bancroft, Survey of the Pre- tended Holy Discipline ; Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity ; Bishop Hall, Episcopacy by Divine Right ; Mason, De- fence of the Church of England Ministiy ; Courayer, Validity of A nglican Oi'dinations ; Jeremy Taylor, On Episcopacy; Cave, Ancient Church; Wheatley, On Common Prayer; Percival, On Apostolic Succession; Jeremy Collier, Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain; Palmer, On the Church; " The Oxford Tracts ;" Words- worth, Theophilus Anglicanus ; Manning, Unify of the Church ; Pusej% Eirenikon ; Stubb, Episcopal Succes- sion ; Marshall, N'otes on Episcopacy ; Wordsworth, The Christian Jllinistry.
5. Anglican Anti-Prelatical. — Jewell, Apology of the Church of England ; '■^ Field of the Church;" Lord King, Primitive Church ; Bishop Burnet, Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England; also Church of Scotland; Stillingfleet, Irenicum; Isaac Tajdor, Ancient Christianity ; Archbishop Whateh", Kingdom of Christ ; also Origin of Romish Eri-07-s ; Litton, On the Church of Christ; Harrison, Whose are the Fathers? Bridges, On the Christian Ministry; Nolan, Catholic Chai'acter of Christianity ; Goode, Divine Rule of Faith and Practice,
6. Puritan, Pi-eshyterian, etc. — Rutherford, Due Right of Presbyteries ; Drury, Model of Church Govemment ; Seamen, Vindication of the Reformed Churches; Mil- ton, Prelatical Episcopacy ; also Reason of Church Gov- ernment ; Prynne, Testimonies of Bishops and Presby- ters; Baxter, Treatise of Episcopacy ; also English Non- Conformity ; Calamy, Defence of Non - Conformity ; James Owen, Plea for Scriptm-e Ordination ; Nichol, Vindication of Dissenters ; Ay ton. Original Constitution of the Christian Chtn-ch ; Campbell, Vindication of the Presbyterians of h-eland; IM'Crie, Unify of the Church; Conder, Protestant Non - Conformity ; Vaughan, Polity of Congregationalism ; Powell, On Apostolical Succes- sion; sundry Ministers of London, On the Divine Right of Church Govemment; Brown, Puseyite Episcopan/.
7. American Prelatical. — Wilmer, Episcopal Man- ual; Uohart, On Apostolic Or-der; How, Vindication of the Pr-otestant Episcopal Church; Bowden, Apostolic Origin of Episcopacy; Carnochan, Early Fathers; Ogilby, Catholic Churrh in England and America; Chapin, Primitive Chur-ch ; Kip, Double Witness of the Church; Doane, Sermons and Charges; Ewer, Protes- tantism a Failure ; iMines, Pr-esbyterian Cler-gijman Look- ing for the Church.
8. American Anti - Pr-elatical. — BicVmson, Defence of Presbyterian Or-dination ; Welles, Divine Right of Presbyterian Ordination; Mason (John M.), Essays on Episcopacy; Miller, On the Christian Ministr-y ; Wil-
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son, Primitive Government of Christian Churches; Sparks, Letters on the Ministry and Ritual of the Episcopal Church ; Wood, Objections to Episcopacy ; Emory, Epis- copal Controversy Reviewed ; Bangs, Original Church of Christ; Duffield, On the Claims of Episcopal Bishops; Snodgrass, On Apostolical Succession; Barnes, On the Apostolic Church; M'llvaine, On the Oxford Divinity ; Hopkins, Novelties which Uisturb our Peace ; Shimeal, End of Prelacy; Smyth, On Apostolical Succession; also Presbytery and Prelacy ; also Ecclesiastical Repub- licanism ; Tydings, Apostolical Succession ; Abby, Apos- tolical Succession; Gallagher, Primitive Eirenicon; Cheever, Hierarchical Despotism ; Upham, Ratio Dis- ciplince ; Punchard, Congregationalism; Magoon, Re- publican Christianity; Kidder, Christian Pastorate; Coleman, Manual of Prelacy ; New - Englander, Oct. 1873, art. iii. (D. P. K.)