This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...to the State-Church of England, into the phrase, 'a mere national institution;' and Hugh Miller, as he looked upon the spectacle of the Disruption, could say nothing more sternly sad of the StateChurch of Scotland than that she had become a ' Stateinstitution.' The difference between the Oxford doctor and the Free ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...to the State-Church of England, into the phrase, 'a mere national institution;' and Hugh Miller, as he looked upon the spectacle of the Disruption, could say nothing more sternly sad of the StateChurch of Scotland than that she had become a ' Stateinstitution.' The difference between the Oxford doctor and the Free Church champion was this, that, whereas Anglican Bishops have since Henry VIII.'s time ordained vice regis, in the person of the king, thus recognizing the sovereign as sole fountain of spiritual authority for the establishment, the Scottish layman could point to the Treaty of Union, expressly exempting the Church of Scotland from the spiritual supremacy vested in the English Crown, and guaranteeing to her all those rights and privileges which a century and a half of terrible contending had secured her. The importance of this distinction became evident in the sequel. Dr Newman left the Anglican Church more conspicuously a 'mere national institution' than before: the Free Church won not only her own battle, but the battle of the Scottish Establishment also. The dust of the conflict having cleared away, the men of character and power in the State-Church of Scotland, the Macleods, the Cairds, the Tullochs, and men of like stamp, took up the position of the old Presbyterian fathers, claiming spiritual independence for the Church, and doing their best to secure for congregations the election of their ministers. Nay more, the Court of Session has, by a recent decision, treated the right of the Church to exercise spiritual discipline in the suspension and deposition of ministers as unquestionable. Whether the law lords would have been thus generous, if the Established Church of Scotland had not become so modest, unassuming, and inoffensive that a wigged ...
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