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t *> i > k within Oje pale ^> f the ch u r ^ i ; they we r ^^^ s ^ af # ea&e and union , ami Q ^ served ^ perfect a *| d . judicious * jeu * ra # t # t Whkgify Itfid endeavoured to a < W 9 ix a * tir cies . wholly {^ Ovinistic * but for tfee reason stated V ^ y wf r f ^ WPte 4 , , DfWP to the <* ei « aa of WiHJam : IU ., that f discreet
Jaxity" of which Fuller spoke m bis Church History , bad always been allowed regarding the Articles . Comnag dow * a to a later date , he arrived at the great authority of Archbishop WaXe upon this subject—an authority to which he had before alluded . The * injunctions he promulgated rejated solely to the
testimonials and to the morality of the candidate for a curacy or . for holy orders , but said uot a syllable regarding rejection on points of doctrine , He had held correspondence with the Protestauts of Geneva and Pern ; and in one of his letters to the latter , he had thus spoken of the Thirty-nine Articles : — " I have never , to
any man . or men , given iny opinions upon that subject , and 1 am determined never to do it . ; " and . further on , he had thus decisively expressed his opinions ;— " It has always been the policy of the Church of England , and I trust in God it will always remain , so , to require nothing more than the mere subscription of the
Articles . " , Thus it was evident , that Archhp . Wake could never have entitled himself to a curacy in the diocese of the Right Reverend Prelate , He , one of the loftuibt and ablest dignitaries of the < : hurch , must be abandoned by those who thought with the present Bishop of Peterone
borough , as a re ^ nibhcan- ^ as who would be willing to bring his sovereign to the block , and as meriting all the reproaches and epithets which the Right Reverend Prelate , in his truly Christian spirit , had heaped upon the petitioner . He ( Lord Holland ) hoped that some of his learned brethren of the bench would
favour the House with their opinions , and state the nature and object of their examinations . He had heard that some of the candidates toYwhoin licenses were refused from the see of Peterborough had obtained them elsewhere in other dioceses ,, without the lengthy examinations now the subject of complaint- He
had read the answers to the eighty-seven questions , and he could fiud do . ground at least for the charge of artifice , brought forward by the Right Reverend Prelate . Had artifice . been necessary , St would have been displayed in a different way ;
the object of the petitioner was to gain the curacy ,. and but far his hprifest , stirupies of conscience he might have obtained it . He ( Lord . Hollarad ) uow cattie to the topic of expediency , and lie inusi observe
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tte&ifJt ® pmct ^ < | he-Right fi ^ v ^ f ?^ PreUte CQU 14 fee iusiiflfcd by i&txm ^ Mv it w 4 % in it * elf a treoiea ^ o ^ gii ^ am ^ ^ and a most . cruel f ^ wer , t& e , e * efceisfc %£ which ought tp tie coatr ^ uied . The barxl ship in a caae like that of the petitioner
was extreme . By th ^ resojluiiotas ii > t& $ case of Home Tooke it kad been settled , that when once a maa was a deacon , btf could look for advancement Jn no pratef sion but the church . A man might be able to subscribe the Thirty-niee Articleswith the latitude hitherto allowed , a « d
an opportunity of preferwient in the dk * - cese of Peterborough occurring ^ he might have reasonably expected that 00 obstacle would have been presented to his obtaining it . But no : - the Bishop stepped in , and put him tQ a new test . by his
eighty-seven questions , some of them of no easy solution , and such as Archbishop Wake himself could not hatfe answered . Still , answered they must be ; and if i * could * not be done without it , the camlU date must read over the Right Reverend Prelate ' s long controversial work far his instruction . He had no
choiceextinctae corpus n 0 n utile dextra ; and if he did uot give satisfactory replies upon all the doctrinal points , he must be content to be a beggar all his Kie . It might be true that only three had been rejected by the Right Reverend Prelate , but could he say how many had > een
deterred from seeking advancement through such an ordeal ? There was o $ e remark which he ( Lord Holland ) would » ot have made bat for the charge of aitifict ^ which had been made against tbe petitioner . He observed thajt ; the eighty-seyep questions were only propounded to young ,
iuexperieneed men—to candidates for curacies or holy orders ; but they . were ; -iie . yer put to beneficed clergymen who might be supposed tor be more conjjietjeni ; to reply . The truth was , tljat in such : cases third persous were interested—* the lay patioa—perhaps the crown ; and if
objections were made to the interrogatories , the matter could tye carried to another jurisdiction ,, He did not say that it was so , but it looked very much as if the Right Reverend Prelate was resorve 4 to go so far as he could without ( to use a familiar phrase ) being hauled over tf * e coals . By a practice like this ; each sepa
rale 4 iocese would be converted $ n | # ; fi separate church , and divisions " an ^ aect ^ would be endless . But since jh # Church of "E&ghmd w »» patt of the lajw . atid cptirstitution , PaWiaioent was houM to faterw pom iu cfcsea of uecemiy t ^ revewpite peace : tie dkl uot put U on the rQiserahle ground of prwf ^ rty , but fl > r th&iafce
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/69/
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