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"R." "R." ditto. "D. I. E." The sermon and any other article will be most welcome. We shall always be happy to hear from our Walworth friend. Many of our correspondents will observe their valuable favours in the present Number. The expected article, about which our good friend " W." inquires, has not at present reached us. Our Marriage Notices require to be authenticated. D. I. E." Too late; but thanks at all times. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. SEPTEMBER, 1839. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. ART. 1.-The Constitution of the Visible Church of Christ considered, under the Heads of Authority and Inspiration of Scripture; Creeds (Tradition); Articles of Religion, Heresy and Schism; State Alliance, Preaching, and National Education: in Eight Discourses, preached before the University of Cambridge, in the Year 1838, at the Lecture founded by the Rev. John Hulse. By the Rev. RICHARD PARKINSON, B.D. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Fellow of Christ's College in Manchester. London Parker. Cambridge: Deighton. Oxford: Parker. Manchester: Bancks & Co. 1839. EACH day gives to the Church of Christ, by God's grace established in this country, some fresh proof that her true sons are on the alert. A return to the good old paths in which our fathers walked is every where observable; and men are ccasing to be ashamed of their distinctive character as Churchmen. Alas! that there ever should have been a time when children could regard with indifference the claims put forth by their Mother in Christ; and yet so it has been. There have been many who nevertheless called themselves Churchmen, although in almost every action of their lives they belied their profession. Among these, an attentive observer will remark two classes-those who clung to certain doctrines of the Church, regardless of others, and careless of her primitive discipline; and those who held in the main with all her doctrines, and conformed for the most part to her ceremonial directions, but who sought their authority immediately from the state, instead of looking upon the state as lending her sanction and her cooperation to the exercise of powers whose origin is divine. Meanwhile there have always been a goodly band who have loved and honoured the Church of England, simply because she carried on her front the true notes and genuine marks of catholicity; because, in other words, by her unbroken succession of ministerial office from the apostles' times to their owṛ, by her adhesion to the three creeds of universal Christendom, her pure preaching of the Word of God, her due administration of the sacraments of Christ, she had shown that she was a pure and apostolic branch of the true vine-a living tree in the garden of the Lord-a sound and healthy member of the body mystical of God's dear Son, which is the company of true faithful people. This goodly band have of late years been on the increase, and the spirit of the English reformers is again the characteristic of English divines. The press teems with primitive lore; and it is once again sufficient praise to say of a doctrine, that it is old. From these remarks, it will be seen that we altogether dissent from the opinions which would identify what are fashionably termed high-church principles, with the learned and pious contributions to the Tracts for the Times. We have no desire to withhold from these last-mentioned gentlemen, all honour, and all praise for their diligent exertions in behalf of the genuine views of catholic truth, to which, by their consistent lives, no less than their lofty attainments, they have recalled public attention; but we are sure that they would not thank us for ascribing to them an honour which is not theirs, neither will they suspect us of unkindness towards their christian endeavours, when we say that we have ever looked upon their publications as the signs, or offspring, rather than the parents of the times, which now brighten the Churchman's onward prospect. And this being so, we have felt the grievous injustice of looking up to them as authoritative fathers, rather than hailing them as fellow-travellers on the holy path which has TRUTH as its termination, and as friendly fellow-strivers in the race which has TRUTH for its goal. On these grounds, we repeat, we altogether dissent from the position which. seeks to date the origin of high-church principles as coeval with the appearance of the so-called Oxford Tracts. The fact is, that the principles of the English Reformation were high-church principles; the brightest ornaments of the Church in every age would be set down by the slang of the day as high-churchmen; and the terms high and low, as applied to church principles, owe their existence to an age of religious madness, which ended in an era of irreligious apathy. Were we to name the man who first had the courage to put himself forward in the breach, and who, amid sneers and vile imputation of unworthy motives of bigotry and priestcraft, dared to re-assert the almost forgotten truths, which modern liberalism sets aside as non-essential, but in behalf of which martyrs have been content to suffer and to die, we should point to the late Rev. Hugh James Rose, B.D. of Trinity College, Cambridge. Yes, if it be permitted us to say who first succeeded in extracting flame from the smothered ashes, at which (as the subsequent almost consentaneous blaze proved,) so many were seeking to re-light the candle of English theology, we do not think that we can well be gainsayed when we affirm that this honour belongs rather to Cambridge than to Oxford. We are free to confess that once kindled in Oxford, fuel was more readily furnished to feed the flame than in the sister University: but to give honour where honour is due, we think it must be allowed that Cambridge has the hallowed praise of reviving truths, which had been suffered to grow into disuse in an age which socinianized the hierarchy, and sensualized the clergy. Such is the train of thought into which we have been led, as it were involuntarily, by the perusal of the most seasonable volume whose title. heads this article. Mr. Parkinson deserves well of his brother churchmen, both in and out of the ministry, (especially of those who are preparing for holy orders,) for the clear and perspicuous, and withal learned manner in which he has discussed the principal questions now agitated with reference to the Church. We have read and re-read the volume with much care, and we would hope profit; and we have risen from its second perusal with the conviction, that the statements therein contained, will act like oil upon the present troubled state of the controversial ocean, and that its calm and well considered exposition of broad catholic principles, will serve as landmarks and beacons for the voyager in the present hazy state of the theological atmosphere. So thoroughly are we convinced of the seasonable utility of this publication, that we propose devoting some of our space each month to the consideration of the several lectures seriatim, as they afford most excellent texts on which to hang a discourse, which shall contain a godly and wholesome doctrine, and necessary for these times." As regards the objects which the reverend lecturer proposes to himself, it will be well to let him tell his own tale. In the Introductory Lecture, the author has explained, at some length and with all the clearness in his power, his own views with regard to the present position of the Church of Christ-the causes which have led to that positionand the remedies which might be proposed for some of the evils which attend it. The considerable interval which has elapsed since the composition of that Lecture, while, from the excitement which now exists on all great questions of theology, it has daily thrown some additional light on that position, has not tended to alter the author's views regarding it, but rather to confirm them by the concurrent testimony of almost every successive writer on these questions. It is now evident to all, that the external constitution of the Church of Christ had received from the Clergy (and especially during the last quarter of a century) much less attention than its essential importance demanded. The exigency of times had a tendency to lead men to neglect every thing in the study of theology which was not evidently indispensable; and a school had gradually sprung up in the Church, which held that system was of little consequence compared with personal sincerity and zeal. Every man can be assured that he possesses the latter: the former is of difficult attainment and thus it came to pass that each minister took that view of the Gospel which was suggested to him by the accidental impressions of his early years, or the bent of his natural disposition and turn of mind. As might have been expected, the theology which thus originated, soon developed itself under two tolerably distinct aspects-what may be called sentimental and common-sense divinity. : |