which we have done in the flesh, that we may be saved by the Lord, while we have time for repentance; for after we have left this world we can no longer confess ourselves there, or repent any more." We subjoin an extract from some anonymous lines which are in the possession of a friend, and are illustrative of some of the points for which we have been contending, and would refer our readers to Archbishop Tillotson's Sermons on 2 Cor. v. 6, and Rev. xiv. 13, and to Mr. Newman's most interesting Discourse on Rev. vi. 11, in vol. iii. of the Parochial Sermons: : "The world has triumph'd o'er the will, Th' uplifted hands have fall'n, and still The head has sunk upon the breast, And soft successive breath Alone declares that fearful rest Is not the sleep of death. Sleep, sleep, worn frame; but far away And pass'd before her joyful day, To th' home of th' happy dead. She rests beside the gentlest stream; Nor piercing cold, nor scorching heat, Break in upon that summer sweet Nor wrath, nor care, nor pain, nor dread, And holy joy for ever shed By angel hands above. Pure spirits dwell with spirits pure, In closest unity; And fond hearts, of each other sure,' There hold communion high. Sweet is the peace of Paradise, The weary race is run; But when, Ŏ when will day arise, 'How long? How long?'*-O calmly rest, Yours is the peace of Abraham's breast, The summer moons are waning fast; Rev. vi. 10. + Rev. xiv. 15,16. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. ORDINATIONS APPOINTED. BP. OF EXETER, Sept. 24. BP. OF PETERBOROUGH, Sept. 24. BP. OF ELY, Dec. 3. ORDINATIONS. By the LORD BISHOP OF NORWICH, at Norwich, on Sunday, August 13. DEACONS. Of Oxford.-J. W. Evans, B.A. Trin.; E. J. May, B.A. Wor.; H. Symonds, м.A. Magd. H. Of Cambridge.-G. L. Allsopp, B.A. Emm. ; Of Dublin.-F. A. Bickmore, Trin.; J. W. PRIESTS. Of Oxford.-T. H. Mynors, B.A. Wad.; J. U. Robson, B.A. Magd. H.; G. Shand, E.A. Queen's; G. F. Turner, B.A. Trin.; W. C. Ward, B.A. All Souls. Of Cambridge.-H. S. Anders, B.A. Caius; T. A. Anson, B.A. Jesus; E. Bellman, B.A. Queen's; W. P. Borrett, M.D. Caius; T. W. Boyce, B.A. Sid. Sus.; T. H. Chase, B.A. Queen's; W. Collett, B.A. St. Peter's; C. N. Cooper, B.A. Corp. Chris.; G. Crabbe, B.A. Queen's; J. M. Cripps, St. John's; G. W. Darby, M.A. St. John's; H. Golding, B.A. Trin.; T. G. P. Hough, B.A. Caius; G. Jackson, M.A. Caius; C. W. Lohr, B.A. Corp. Chris.; H. P. Marsham, s.C.L. Trin. H.; D. B. Moore, Queen's; J. Postle, B.A. Corp. Chris.; Surtees, B.A. Corp. Chris. R. Breton, E. R....... Charmouth, R............. Sarum....... Trustees..... ... B. & W...... Mrs. Frobisher...... Cartwright, J....... Ferry Hill, P.C........... Durham..... D. & C. of Durham ..... Chell, J........ (Kneesal-cum-Bough- Lincoln...... C. of Coll.Ch., Southwell Clarke, J............. 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L., B.A., Curate of Little Malvern Irwin, A. L., M.A., Principal of the Collegiate Knox, Dr., Head Master of Tonbridge School. Whytehead, T., Chaplain to the Lord Bishop MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. to the old common law of England, constitute an actual marriage, but only an obligation to celebrate one. The intervention of a priest was necessary to establish matrimony. On this day, however, Lords Brougham and Campbell intimated their dissent from this opinion, and declared their conviction that England did, anterior to the Marriage Acts, recognise the Law Christian of Europe, which upheld the validity of the marriage contract, even when gone into without the intervention of a priest. Lord Denman, it was intimated by Lord Brougham, was of the same opinion with himself. The views of Lords Lyndhurst and Cottenham have not yet been laid before the House; so that the case stands over till next session. It seems likely, from an intimation given by the former, that it will be argued over again by ecclesiastical lawyers. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. OCTOBER, 1843. Speculum Ecclesiæ Anglicana; or, Some Account of the Principles and Results of the Reformation of the Church of England. By JOHN HARTLAND WORGAN, M. A. Curate of Calthorpe, &c. London: Parker. Leicester: Crossley. 1843. THIS is an admirable work, obviously the result of much study and reflection, vindicating, as we think, successfully, that which ought to require no vindication among us-the main character and essential principles of our English Reformation; taking a cheerful view of our prospects, and marked throughout by that hearty loyalty to the Reformed Church of England which we believe to be a necessary condition, as well of success in removing her defects as of all other healthy exertion within her pale. This last point is so important that we propose pausing on it, and devoting a couple of articles to the consideration of our ecclesiastical condition and character. Is the Church of England Catholic or not? This is a question that is asked alike by friend or foe. If any understand it as an inquiry whether or not the Church of England be the Catholic Church, we must inform them at once, that we have no intention of either vindicating or impugning a thesis, the very proposal of which is an extreme absurdity. We should not, indeed, have alluded to this preposterous inquiry, had it not really been raised both by Romanist and Anglican writers, the former of whom are too glad to see made, and some of the latter of whom have been too willing virtually to make, such a ridiculous claim. When we ask whether or not the Church of England be Catholic, our inquiry can rationally and fitly take but two directions. We may ask if she be a legitimate branch of the Catholic Church, so as alone to have rightful authority over those placed within her geographical boundaries: or secondly, we may ask if she be Catholic in tone, temper, and character, manifesting the reality of her profession to this effect, by her words and by her deeds. Of these inquiries we have no intention, at present, of entering on the former. It is a question of facts, and of facts easily ascertained. It has been already abundantly discussed, and if there be any one of our readers who feels unsettled on the subject, we must refer him to the works of our standard divines, as containing all that can be said on it. The latter, however, is ground that still remains in great measure to be worked; for, when our Romish assailants are tired of impeaching the validity of our orders, the sufficiency of our liturgy, and the orthodoxy of our doctrine, they not unfrequently, at present, shift the discussion from those points to our actual temper and practice, and impugn our Catholicity, by denying that we bear the fruits of Catholicity. They argue, "it is very well to say that you are Catholic, that you have never quitted the unity of the Church, that you hold the doctrine, and join in the sacraments, of the whole body of the faithful; that you have never broken the sacred line of the priesthood, that you propose no terms of communion but such as are entirely Catholic, and refuse none such as it is Catholic to demand of you. Granting all these things, for argument's sake, how come you to be so uncatholic in all you think, and say, and do? Try as you like, you cannot act the part which you claim for yourselves-your own habitual conduct condemns you. From the date of that event which you call the Reformation, your Church has been nothing but a national institution, and all your talk about Christ's universal kingdom and holy Catholic Church, has not opened to you one glimmering of communion with any christian souls born out of your own geographical limits." Nor is this estimate of the Church of England confined to Romanists. There are those among her own children who form a very similar one; who consider her to be indeed the branch of the Catholic Church to which they owe allegiance, but nevertheless to have forfeited every claim to their affection, except that essential one, to be, in short, as uncatholic as it is possible for a Catholic Church to be. Now, it is notionally possible that the case should be so. There might be a Church, having rightful authority over her children, and yet acting a cruel part by them, even as there are parents who must be reverenced and obeyed as such, though they have no personal claims on the respect or affection of their offspring. The Church of England may be the representative of the Church Catholic to Englishmen; and yet may be the |