. God, the Bible, truth and Christian theology . AND CHEISTIAN THEOLOGY ness is conditional upon the completeness of theConfessions^ The High Church Bishop of Oxford ( Wilberforce) on November 30th,1850, wrote to Dr. Pusey:— You seem to me to be habitually assuming theplace and doing the work of a Eoman Confessor,and not that of an English clerg^^man. Now, Iso firmly believe that of all the curses of Poperythis is the crowning curse, that I cannot allow vol-untarily within my charge the continuance of anyministry which is infected by it/^^ If the Bishops of the present day wouldonly a
. God, the Bible, truth and Christian theology . AND CHEISTIAN THEOLOGY ness is conditional upon the completeness of theConfessions^ The High Church Bishop of Oxford ( Wilberforce) on November 30th,1850, wrote to Dr. Pusey:— You seem to me to be habitually assuming theplace and doing the work of a Eoman Confessor,and not that of an English clerg^^man. Now, Iso firmly believe that of all the curses of Poperythis is the crowning curse, that I cannot allow vol-untarily within my charge the continuance of anyministry which is infected by it/^^ If the Bishops of the present day wouldonly act as Bishop Wilberforce did, theywould, unfortunately, find their hands fullof this kind of work. The Confessionalis now taught (in quite as Eomish a formas that which was condemned by him) bythousands of nominally. Church of Eng-land clergymen, who glory in what Dr. so truly termed the crown-ing curse of Popery. Had the Bishopsdone their duty this curse would havebeen stamped out long ago. ^■Hints for a First Confession, by
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