Letters On The Tracts For The Times

Author : William Sewell
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ISBN 13 : 9781331856658
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D. D written by William Sewell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D. D: Regius Professor of Hebrew, and Canon of Christ Church on the Publication of No; 90; Of the Tracts for the Times I take the opportunity of a second Edition to add one remark, not with a view to express any opinion of my own, which might he officious and useless, but at the suggestion of others. Without referring at all to the merits or demerits of the particular Tract in question, I must confess that I did at the first regard the Resolution of the Hebdomadal Board with considerable uneasiness. And the same uneasiness has undoubtedly been felt, and to a great degree, by men of high eminence and station both in the University and the Church, who are as little connected as myself with party, and equally indisposed, I should conceive, to identify themselves with any opinions, but the acknowledged and indisputable doctrines of our Church, as contained in her formularies, and maintained by her Standard Divines. If books before this have been condemned in the University, the condemnation has been passed by an Act of Convocation, which is the proper and only Representative of the University "in matters of greater moment." And for the decision of certain other Theological Questions within the University, the Statutes have appointed a particular Tribunal selected from the Faculty of Theology. If therefore the Resolution of the Hebdomadal Board were to be represented as an Act of the whole University, or as a formal decision on a Theological Question, it would assuredly introduce a novel and unstatutable proceeding, and might render it imperative on Members of Convocation to protest publicly against it, lest it should be turned into a most dangerous precedent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.