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ON THE
MINISTRY, RITUAL, AND DOCTRINES
OF THE
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
ADDRESSED TO THE
REV. WM. E. WYATT, D. D.,
Associate Minister of St. Paul's Parish, Baltimore, and Professor of Theology in the University of Maryland,
En reply to a Sermon
EXHIBITING SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL DOCTRINES OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES.
BY JARED SPARKS,
Formerly Minister of the First Independent Church of Baltimore.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by
JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CONTENTS.
LETTER I.
ON THE MINISTRY OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Reasons for discussing the subject-Our Saviour gave no instruc-
tions respecting any particular mode of church government—
Said nothing of three orders of ministry—The first church at Je-
rusalem was governed by the apostles, elders, and brethren-
Deacons―The ceremony of ordination was performed by any of
ficers of regular standing in the church-Paul and Barnabas
were ordained by "prophets and teachers"-Opinions of Kui-
noel, Rosenmuller, Hammond, and Le Clerc-Episcopalians
fond of quoting the Fathers-Authority of the Fathers-Opin-
ions of Milton and Jeremy Taylor-Ignatius' epistles-Testi-
mony of the Fathers against episcopacy-Opinions of Paley,
Locke, the bishop of Lincoln-Ecclesiastical government essen-
tially a government of the people. p. 9
LETTER II.
ON THE RITUAL OF THE CHURCH.
Baptism-Church form not scriptural-Sign of the cross-Con-
firmation-These forms nearly the same as in the Catholic church
-Ordination service-Expediency and utility of forms of prayer
-Their disadvantages-Origin of Saints' days-Bossuet.
LETTER III.
p. 51
ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH IN CONTROVERSIES OF FAITH.
Our Saviour gave no authority to any man, or body of men, to
judge others for their religious opinions-Christians have no
other rule of faith than the Bible-Chillingworth-Athanasian
creed-Historical sketch of the first conventions of the Ameri-
can episcopal church after the revolution-Injurious tendency
of creeds and articles, both on the clergy and the people-Many
christians cannot conscientiously worship according to the litur-
gy of the church-Inconsistency of holding to the authority of
tradition, and rejecting infallibility-How creeds keep schism
out of the church-Milton's opinion.
p. 74