...statement to this empty boast is made in the following pithy language: — " There is not a minister in all Christendom who is able to trace up, •with any approach to certainty, his own spiritual pedigree."}' And in speaking of the sacramental virtue supposed to be dependent on the imposition of hands, he says,...

...pedigree right up to the Apostles in an unbroken chain.' Dublin retorts, ' There is not a minister in all Christendom who is able to trace up with any approach to certainty his own spiritual pedigree. . . . The sacramental virtue . . . dependent on the imposition of hands, with a due observance of apostolic...

...summed up the result of such historical inquiries. 'There is not a minister in Christendom,' he says, ' who is able to trace up, with any approach to certainty, his own spiritual pedigree. If a Bishop has not been duly consecrated, his ordinations are null ; and so are the ministrations...

...he reflects and enquires the more cause for hesitation he will find. There is not a minister in all Christendom who is able to trace up with any approach to certainty his own spiritual pedigree. . . . Let anyone proceed on the hypothesis that there are, suppose, but a hundred links connecting...

...he reflects and enquires the more cause for hesitation he will find. There is not a minister in all Christendom who is able to trace up with any approach to certainty his own spiritual pedigree. . . . Let anyone proceed on the hypothesis that there are, suppose, but a hundred links connecting...

...the contrary, and that the succession hath often been interrupted.' Archbishop Whately affirms that ' there is not a minister in Christendom who is able to trace up, with an approach to certainty, his spiritual pedigree.' " M It is admitted that the New Testament does not...

...designed to be of universal obligation." He declares, moreover, that " there is not a minister in all Christendom who is able to trace up with any approach to certainty his own spiritual pedigree," and who can therefore be assured, on the High Church theory, of his proper qualification to administer...

...subject in the most distressing doubts and perplexity." And he says: "There is not a minister in all Christendom who is able to trace up, with any approach to certainty, his own spiritual pedigree." There are no records that show that Peter became bishop of Rome. There are no dates of ordination,...

...reflects and inquires, the more cause for hesitation he will .find. There is not a minister in all Christendom who is able to trace up with any approach to certainty his own * Essay ii., p. 181. spiritual pedigree. The sacramental virtue dependent on the imposition of hands,...

...vain for evidence. The oft-quoted saying of Archbishop Whately, that "there is not a minister in all Christendom who is able to trace up, with any approach to certainty, his spiritual pedigree,'" is too obviously true for discussion. Indeed, proof is here clearly out of the...