This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... To establish the soundness of Anglican Orders, exparte intentionis, it is necessary to show that the ministers performed the external acts which the Church, performs, and with no more absence of internal intention than is contained in the ignorance of the Sacramental character of the rite and its ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... To establish the soundness of Anglican Orders, exparte intentionis, it is necessary to show that the ministers performed the external acts which the Church, performs, and with no more absence of internal intention than is contained in the ignorance of the Sacramental character of the rite and its effects. That they did not for a considerable period perform the external rite which the Church performs is not directly to the point. We consider at present merely the internal intention of the minister of Orders, and, for the sake of argument, grant an hypothetical soundness to the other points whereon the validity of English Orders might be assailed. If the absence of complete intention in the Anglican minister of ordination left behind a general desire of performing the rite as the Church performs it, though he be ignorant of the precise intention of the Church in ordination, yet his intention corresponds with that exemplified under No. 3, and is allowed to be sufficient for the validity of the Sacrament. But the statements of Anglican Bishops and expositors of English doctrine, testify that there was no such implicit intention shrouded beneath ignorance. They knew fully the doctrines of the Catholic Church in regard to the Sacramental character and effect of Orders, and they expressly and unequivocally assert their disbelief in it, and their virtual intention of not conferring the Sacramental effect, or the Sacrament, in the act of ordination. " As to the Minister's intention." The Sacramental character of Orders is denied in Article XXV.: "These five, commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and Extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel." All the essentials of a...
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