The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . no oflence,which is carefully .avoided here in eveiy instance, that both Powers may live for thefuture on good terms, without officiously interfering in the administration of theaftairs of one another, cither in Church or State, considering the Jealousies stillentertained on your side of the water. AVhile the bisliops of Scotland, alive, now that Seahury had beenconsecrated by them, to all tiie ecclesiastical measures set on footacross tiic water, thus thouirht and wrote of tlic New York luiula-mental principles : — I see the difficidti
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . no oflence,which is carefully .avoided here in eveiy instance, that both Powers may live for thefuture on good terms, without officiously interfering in the administration of theaftairs of one another, cither in Church or State, considering the Jealousies stillentertained on your side of the water. AVhile the bisliops of Scotland, alive, now that Seahury had beenconsecrated by them, to all tiie ecclesiastical measures set on footacross tiic water, thus thouirht and wrote of tlic New York luiula-mental principles : — I see the difficidties you will have to struggle with from the loose, incoherentnotions of Church government which seem to prevail too much even among thoseof the Episcopal persuasion in some of the Southern States; but the better princi-jjles and dutiful support of your own Clergy will enable you to face the Opposi-tion with becoming fortitude and prudence. And may the great and only Head ofhi? Church strengthen you for the great work to which he has appointed you, and. THE EARLY CONVENTIONS, NORTH AND SOUTH. 35 make 30U the instrument of frustrating the miscliievous Devices of the late Con-vention. I see their printerl in some of the London papers exactly as youtranscribed them, and whatever Views they may have had of tlio future Establish-nii-nt of Episcopacy in America, 1 think they could not liave contrived more eflect-ually for suppressing the inllucncc, and smothering all the bonellts of it, than byentering into such Articles of Union as are directly repugnant to its spirit, andsubversive of its original Design. Wonderfully did God overrule these threatened dangers, and allflic apprcbcn:<ions of (he wisest and truest friends of the Church, atlionie and abroad, by a train of providences whose unravelling formsa striking chapter in our early ecclesiastical history. In the meantime there had come, from the Old World to theNew, letters denouncing the episcopacy of Seabury, as
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