Old Anglicanism and Modern Ritualism. Chapter 8: Old Anglicanism In Conflict With Ritualism
I believe that I have proved that the Ritualist School, in so far as they depreciate the Reformation, show tenderness to Rome, condone her false doctrines, hold the tenet of the Objective Presence in the elements, perform the rites and ceremonies thence flowing, and inculcate the practice of auricular confession as part of the normal religious life, find no justification in the teaching and acts of our seventeenth-century divines. The old historical High Church party in the Church of England is in direct conflict with the Neo-Anglicanism known as Ritualism.
Frederick Meyrick • 19th Century • From Old Anglicanism and Modern Ritualism • Church of England, Communion, Faith, Images, Indulgences, Oxford Movement, Protestantism, Purgatory, Relics, Sacraments, Saint and Angel Worship, The Papacy
Old Anglicanism and Modern Ritualism. Chapter 7: Bishop Beveridge and Others
I make not the least doubt in the world but that the Church of England before the Reformation and the Church of England after the Reformation are as much the same Church as a garden before it is weeded and after it is weeded is the same garden.
Frederick Meyrick • 19th Century • From Old Anglicanism and Modern Ritualism • Church of England, Communion, Faith, Images, Indulgences, James Ussher, John Bramhall, John Pearson, Joseph Hall, Oxford Movement, Protestantism, Purgatory, Relics, Sacraments, Saint and Angel Worship, The Papacy, William Beveridge
Old Anglicanism and Modern Ritualism. Chapter 6: Bishop Bull
Let us bless God that we live in a Church wherein no other name is invocated but the Name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, nor divine worship given to any but to the one true God through Jesus Christ the only Mediator. O happy we, if we knew and valued our own happiness!
Frederick Meyrick • 19th Century • Church of England, Communion, Faith, George Bull, Images, Indulgences, Oxford Movement, Protestantism, Purgatory, Relics, Sacraments, Saint and Angel Worship, The Papacy
Treatise On Relics
The first Christians left the bodies of the saints in their graves, obeying the universal sentence, that all flesh is dust, and to dust it must return, and did not attempt their resurrection before the appointed time by raising them in pomp and state. This example has not been followed by their successors; on the contrary, the bodies of the faithful, in opposition to the command of God, have been disinterred in order to be glorified, when they ought to have remained in their places of repose awaiting the last judgment.