Church Doctrine, Bible Truth

140

This dispensation a dispensation of realities and not of types

and figures

The acknowledged figurative language of Scripture, when

examined, an evidence against the merely figurative

view

143

SECTION IV.

EXAMINATION OF JOHN VI.

145

147

149

No occasion except that of the institution of the Eucharist

on which Christ uses language at all similar to that

employed by Him here

St. Paul also uses this language solely in relation to the

Eucharist

What the Jews stumble at

Remarkable alteration of language in verse 51—

Up to this verse Christ had spoken of Himself as the

bread of life ; here He begins to speak of men eating

His flesh .

This change incompatible with any rationalizing view

Must indicate something more than a spiritual work of Christ

on the heart or mind of the believer

PAO

The drinking of the Blood . .

154

Note.-On allegorical interpretation

156

“ It is the spirit that quickeneth”

157

Calvin's remarks on this

158

“ The words that I speak unto you; they are spirit

159

None but those who have seen a Sacramental mystery in this

discourse have dared to use its characteristic expressions 160

SECTION V.

THE MYSTERY,

Christ might have expressed Himself more spiritually. He

purposely uses terms associated with the lower nature

of flesh rather than with the higher nature of spirit 162

When Christ uses such words as “ eating flesh,” He cannot
possibly mean only “partaking of spirit”

16+

Wherein consists the mystery

165

Note.—Extract from Dean Goulburn's Farewell Counsels 165

Hooker and Calvin on the mystery .

166

SECTION VI.

THE COMMUNION SERVICE,

169

173

174

!f our services are Scriptural, they must set forth-
1. That Holy Communion is ordained to enable us to

partake of the body and blood of Christ. Proof that

they do this
2. That in this partaking of the flesh and blood of Christ

we receive certain unspeakable benefits
3. That this partaking must be connected with the resur-

rection of the body

The Prayer-book and Missal compared on these two

points. Holy Communion as a partaking of the body

and blood of Christ, and benefits consequent thereupon,

set forth far more clearly in the Prayer-book than in

the Missal

4. That these benefits depend on the spiritual state of

the recipient

5. That the outward part must be the consecrated bread

and wine. Every notice of the Holy Communion in
Scripture witnesses to the necessity of Consecration

175

177

180
SECTION VII.

THE EUCHARISTIO SACRIFICE.

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Scripture and Antiquity unite in testifying that the Eucharist

was the distinctive feature of early Christian worship. 183

Peculiar difficulty which we in England have in realising the

Eucharist as in any sense a sacrifice .

185

Intense sacrificial reality of the Eucharist

188

Note.-Extract from Rev. P. G. Medd's Essay on the Eucha-

ristic Sacrifice, and observations upon it of Wesleyan

Reviewer

189

True sacrificial view contrasted with its opposite

191

The Eucharist a showing forth of Christ's death, not of our

faith in His death .

191

Accordance of our service with this view

193

When and in what way do we make the sacrificial memorial ? 202

Note 1.-Examples of ancient forms of the Tersanctus or Hymn

of the Seraphim .

204

Note II.-On the Sacrificial aspect of the Eucharist

206

CHAPTER V.

THE CHRISTIAN PRIESTHOOD,

SECTION I.

THE SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE OF THE MINISTRY.

God is pleased to impart to us certain spiritual benefits

through the hands of our fellow-men .

215

Powers claimed by the Church for her ministers

216

The whole matter a question of things, not of words. Whether

the word “ priest” be used or not in the New Testament

signifies nothing

217

Illustration from the vision in Isaiah vi.

218

Patriarchal Dispensation. Abraham blessed by Melchizedek 220

Jewish Dispensation

221

That the whole Jewish nation were priests did not clash with

the fact that God ordained special priests to minister at

The Jewish priests but ministers .

Prophecies foretelling that there would be priests under the

New Dispensation

226

228

The Christian Dispensation.

Position of the Apostles between Christ and His ordinary

followers .

If Christ assigned to His Apostles any power of showing forth

or applying His death, He gave them the highest

functions of those who are called “ priests ”

He did this in respect of Baptism

The Lord's Supper

Absolution

Reason why the term “priest” was not originally applied to

Christian ministers (note).

Their functions transmitted by “laying on of hands”.

293
234

Cannot be the power of proclaiming the terms of forgivoness

merely

Cannot have been intended to be limited to the Apostles .

Cannot have been limited to those who had the gift of

discerning of spirits '

EXAMINATION OF THE ORDINAL.

Terms in which Christ inaugurated the Christian ministry in-

compatible with a low rationalizing view of its functions 246

If our Ordinal is Scriptural, it must embody the words in which

Christ ordained the Christian ministry. Proof that it

does this

249

Absolution in the Visitation of the Sick .

255

So worded as most carefully to guard against any sort of

misconstruction, except wilful

256

Note.—This absolution not merely declaratory

258

Extracts from Law's Letters to Bishop of Bangor exposing

certain ever-recurring fallacies

259

Extract from Rev. F. D. Maurice .

266

CHAPTER VI.

FORMS OF PRAYER AND THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE PEOPLE.

270

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Our Service-book a book of COMMON Prayer .

267

Not the private prayer of the individual minister, but the

common property of the congregation.)

Every opportunity given to the congregation to join in it by

response

268

Evidence of Scripture on the subject .

No specific directions respecting public worship in the New

Testament, and absurd inference from this

273

Forms essential if the Laity are to take their part in the

All Primitive Liturgies agree in assigning to the lay people a

share in the most solemn parts of the service

276

Proofs of this so far as regards--

1. The Hymn of the Seraphim

276

2. The “ Sursum corda,” or “Lift up your hearts"

277

3. The response after the recitation of our Lord's words. 279

4. The Lord's Prayer and the Preface to it

280

5. The “Holy Things for Holy Persons

282

Summary.

283

Prayers of the Church adapted to the mixed state of the

Church, as foretold by our Lord

287

29E
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299

SECTION I.

Christ has all offices in Himself

Position He assigned to the twelve Apostles

Apostolic oversight of the Pentecostal Church

Seven Deacons

Presidency of St. James

First mention of Elders

Unsolved questions respecting the government of the Church

of Jerusalem.

All the notices of it set forth Apostolic rule merging into

Episcopal

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