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THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

GENERAL REVIEW.

VOL. XXXIV.

THIRD SERIES, VOLUME XVI.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS.

LONDON: JOHN GREEN; 121 NEWGATE STREET.

1843.

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY THURSTON AND TORRY,

No. 18, Devonshire Street.

THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.

MARCH, 1843.

RECENT TRINITARIAN PUBLICATIONS.*

In the first of these pamphlets we have the first formal American statement of the High Church doctrines of the Oxford school, with which we have met. In the second we have an explicit statement of the Low Church view of the same subjects. In the third we have an expression of the feeling, with which the Catholic Church, both in this country and in England, regards the movements, which have lately taken place in the Episcopal branch of the Church Universal.

The circumstances, under which these two advocates of High and Low Church doctrines appear before the public, are somewhat novel. One of the main advantages, attending a church of established forms, is stated by Paley to be uniformity of doctrine, exhibited in the same pulpit. Under an opposite mode of administration, the consequence would be," that a Papist, or a Presbyterian, a Methodist, a Moravian, or an Anabaptist, would successively gain possession of the pulpit." The very thing, which the Episcopal forms were intended to obviate, seems in this case to have taken place. On the twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity, Bishop Whittingham instituted Mr. Johns to the Rectorship of Christ's Church in Baltimore, and in a discourse without any text, unless a quotation on the opposite page from Irenæus may be considered as such, asserts that the person he has just instituted is a priest, that the Lord's

* The Priesthood in the Church. The Protestant Episcopal Pastor. The Religious Cabinet. 1

VOL. XXXIV.

-3D s. VOL. XVI. NO. 1.

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