The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ns were closely watching the young priest of Trinityparish, and the Rev. Dr. Linn, the Dutch Keformed minister of Albany,presently attacked iiis books in the Ali)any Ccntind. The Beaslcy, , then Rector of St. IVterV, Albany, sub-sc<|uentl3 the provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and the authorof the metiiphysical work entitled A Search of Truth in the Scienceof the Human Mind, replied ; and was assisted in the controversy byThomas Yardley How, who had been private secretary to AlexanderHamilton, and was, two
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ns were closely watching the young priest of Trinityparish, and the Rev. Dr. Linn, the Dutch Keformed minister of Albany,presently attacked iiis books in the Ali)any Ccntind. The Beaslcy, , then Rector of St. IVterV, Albany, sub-sc<|uentl3 the provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and the authorof the metiiphysical work entitled A Search of Truth in the Scienceof the Human Mind, replied ; and was assisted in the controversy byThomas Yardley How, who had been private secretary to AlexanderHamilton, and was, two yiars later, the aiil iior of Letters Addressed tothe Rev. Saumcl Miller, , in Reply to his I^etters Concerning (heConstitution and Order of the Christian Ministry. Hobart joined inthe , under the signature of < )biter and Vindex, and, whenthe Albany editor abruptly dosed his paper to the discussion, wrote thepreface, and in 180(5 published what had been written, as Essays Spi-agiics Aiiimis of Ihc American Ililpit, V<il. v., p. KT. J. H. G14 IIISTURV OF THE AMKRICAN KTISCOPAL CHUKCH. on Episcopiu-y. Dr. John M. Mason then took up the subject in tlieCln-istiiui Magazine, which he edited, and called on the championsof a hireling priesthood to furnish evidence of the superiority oftheir practical religion, both in quantity and quality. Hobart waseager for the challenge, and his celebrated Apology for ApostolicOrder, which silenced the opponents of Episcopacy for more thana generation, contains the letters in wliich he replied to the stricturesof Dr. Mason, who is reported to have said, when the discussion wasover: Were I compelled to submit the safety of my country to anyone man, that man should be John Henry Hobart. As early as 180Gthe Churchmans Magsizine was published in New Haven, and it isbelieved that the Apology letters were first printed in its is the literary work by which Bishop Hobart is best and mostfavoral)ly kno
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