Q. What will be the result of lax discipline on the part of a Pastor?

*

A. Bishop White says, "If the pastor be lax in the administration of ecclesiastical discipline, he can hardly blame even a greater degree of laxity among his parishioners; and, particularly, in points in which his individual interests may be concerned. There is the greater reason to notice this, because of the readiness of those prone to violate institutions, to make loud complaints, when they are violated to their own disadvantage. But such ought to be aware, that if they set the example of an emancipation from discipline, it is in the ecclesiastical line as in the civil, that the leaders in such license are not the competent judges, as to the lengths to which it may be extended.”

*Comment. p. 90.

Q. How may the 34th Article be considered ?

A. Bishop White says, "Then follows a censure on those, who wantonly offend against the public provisions of the Church which is a useful admonition to all her members, and especially to her ministers; who, when they break loose from the ties of the Rubrics and of the Canons, may find a condemnation of their conduct in this Article; which they had solemnly promised to conform to, before they were admitted to the ministry, and thereby became furnished with an opportunity of violating its ' order."

* Lectures, p. 183.

SECTION XXV.

Of Education on Church Principles.

"And that he may know these things the better, ye shall call upon him to hear sermons; and chiefly ye shall provide, that he may learn the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health."-From the Baptismal Office.

"And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people."-Nehemiah, xiii. 24.

Q. Can we consistently adopt the principle in education, of indifference to the peculiar tenets of the Church?

A. Bishop White says, "The principle cannot be acted on in the work of education, consistently with fidelity to the Gospel Ministry."

* Ser. on Holy Innocents' Day, p. 10.

SECTION XXVI.

Of the Thirty-Nine Articles.

"And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren."-The Acts, vii. 26.

Q. What is the design of the Articles ?

A. Bishop White says, "he further believes, that the Articles were framed to avoid, not indeed all possible difference of opinion, on questions which may be raised on religious subjects; but difference as to the points, on which the framers of the Articles thought it necessary to determine."

Q. Were the Thirty-Nine Articles drawn up with an accommodation to Calvinism?

+ Comp. Views, vol. ii. p. 239.

A. Bishop White says, "He is free to confess, that there was a time, when he thought the Articles in particular to have been drawn up with an accommodation to the opposite opinions treated of in this work. Further inquiry convinced him, that in part he was mistaken; that the Reformers of the Church of England did indeed accommodate to an opposition of opinion, existing as early as the fifth century of the Christian Church; but that subsequently to the period of the Reformation, there arose on one of the sides referred to (Calvinism) very important superadditions; which could not have been contemplated in the institutions of the Church of England, and to which they are directly in opposition."

Q. Had the Thirty-Nine Articles of

* Comp. Views, vol. i. p. xi.