Thomas Tregenna Biddulph

Name: Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England
Author: Thomas Tregenna Biddulph

Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

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“Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England”, is a work by Thomas Tregenna Biddulph. It explores elements such as the Church of England, communion and Apostles.

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

“ Let not my brother churchman, however, satisfy himself with being a member of the visible Church; but let him examine himself whether he be a living branch in the true vine, united to Christ by faith, and bringing forth the fruits of righteousness by virtue of union with Him. Let him inquire whether he have ever experienced conversion to God,—whether his heart have been humbled, spiritualized, and comforted by those doctrines which he professes to believe as derived from Scripture, and by that worship in which he professes to join as being primitive and “according to godliness.” ”

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

“ I maintain communion with the Church of England, not MERELY because she is established by law.
This, like the two former reasons, is a sufficient one to enforce my continuance in communion with the Church of England, unless she be found, after due inquiry, to be contrary, in her constitution or doctrines, to the word of God. For I p. 5am required to “submit myself to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake.” Nothing can justify my departure from a church so established, but the well-known decision in cases where the law of God and the law of man are in opposition to each other. ”

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

“ If the incumbent or minister of any parish be thus dishonest, having subscribed to what he never cordially believed, and preaching doctrines contrary to the articles he has subscribed, when his incumbency or ministry in that parish ceases by death or any other cause, the articles of the church remain in full force. But if no such test existed, and if the election to church preferment were vested in the people, a single incumbency might so corrupt the opinions of the congregation as to perpetuate heresy from generation to generation. ”

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

“ The most learned of its adversaries have never been able to fix on any period in the Christian Church, from the time of the Apostles to the Reformation, in which the ordination of men to the ministry of the gospel was considered to be vested in any other minister or ministers than a Bishop. ”

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

“ But as that which is ancient may have been corrupted, antiquity alone would not fully justify my continuance in any visible Church, though it strongly enforces the necessity of earnestness and diligence in inquiring about the reality and nature of the supposed corruption, before I venture to quit the Church of which I have been made by baptism a member. ”

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

“ In stating reasons for conformity which are to be comprised within a few pages, it is impossible to enter at large into the proof of the fact here asserted, viz. that the primitive church as founded by the Apostles of our Lord, was episcopal; or, in other words, that the power of ordination and government in the church was vested by the Apostles in officers superior to the order of Presbyters, and who are now called by the name of Bishops. ”

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

“ I am therefore to consider that all are not Israel that are of Israel; all were not Jews that were circumcised; all are not Christians that have been brought by baptism into the Church; for many are called but few are chosen. Under the present state of things, bad and good are together at the marriage feast of the gospel ”

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

“ The government of every synagogue seems to have borne some resemblance of the general ecclesiastical establishment in the Jewish Church. For there were fixed ministers to take care of the religious duties to be performed therein; and these were by imposition of hands solemnly admitted to their office. He who presided is called in the New Testament Archysynagogus, or the ruler of the Synagogue. This word is sometimes used in a larger sense, for any one of the officers who had power in the affairs of the synagogue. ”

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Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England

“ And if any of these should be confirmed in their attachment to her by reading my short statement of the grounds on which my own conduct is built, I shall have attained the only end I have had in view, and rejoice in my success. ”

Thomas Tregenna Biddulph

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