rical books, relatively to the Church of England. It is proposed to show the ground of this qualification." Q. What is Bishop White's opinion of Scott's Commentary? A. Bishop White says,* "Another Commentary, that of the Rev. Thomas Scott, has been received by many of the members of the Episcopal Church, under the impression, that it is agreeable to her views of the leading doctrines of Christianity. To prove, that in regard to some of them this is not a fact, is the design of the present address." Again Bishop White says, "It is intended to prove, concerning the Rev. T. Scott that under every one of the points contained in what is called the Quinquarticular (i. e. Calvinistic) controversy, he has taught what is either be * Remarks on the Com. in Ch. Register, Feb. 1826. † Ibid. yond or in contrariety to the Doctrines of the Church, of which he was a minister." Q. What is Bishop White's opinion of D'Oyly and Mant's Commentary? A. Bishop White says,* "In that work the notes are not the suggestions of the editors, but are generally taken from the writings of the most celebrated Divines of their Church, from the reformation to the present time." Q. Give Bishop White's opinion of Dr. Haweis, a Calvinistic clergymen of the Church of England, and author of a work called "An History of the Christion Church?" A. Bishop White says, "It has been remarked of Dr. Haweis, that however prejudiced against some Fathers of the Church, celebrated by her in all the * Remarks on the Com. in Ch. Register, Feb. 1826. † Comp. Views, vol. i. p. 417. ages succeeding them, he possessed abundance of a singular kind of charity, in supposing piety to abound in heretical and schismatical communions, even where there were no documents in his support." Q. What is Bishop White's opinion of Rev. Mr. Toplady (the author of History of Calvinism ?) A. Bishop White says, "Mr. Toplady' zeal, however, is supposed by the writer of this, to have carried him to a length of torture of the scraps taken from these Fathers, which is not here recollected to have been found in any other author." Q. What is Bishop White's opinion of Rev. Joseph Milner's History of the Christian Church? A. Bishop White says,+ "Like the two * Comp. Views, vol. i. p. 403. authors above mentioned (viz. Toplady and Haweis,) he (Milner) is a Calvinist; and although not so intolerant as they in reference to opposite opinion, never finds Christian doctrine in its integrity, except in alliance with Calvinism, or in what he thinks he perceives the complexion of that theory." SECTION XXXIX. Of the Heathen. "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law unto themselves."-Romans ii. 14. Q. Is any part of the human race placed, by the condition of their birth, beyond the reach of the mercy of God, through Christ? A. Bishop White says, "It is here * Comp. Views, vol. i. p. 120. thought a reasonable conclusion from the premises, that no part of the human race are placed, by the condition of their birth, beyond the reach of the mercy of GOD, through Christ. In regard to the heathen we may properly speak of them, as being left to the uncovenanted mercies of God." Q. Is the hope that GOD extends his mercy to the virtuous heathen Scriptural ? A. Bishop White says, "It is a conspicuous truth of Holy Scripture.". * Comp. Views, vol. i. p. 106. |