But suppose such formularies were to be made optional; suppose there were to be given to parishes the choice between these three things, viz.
Before, however, entering upon any criticism of the formularies in detail, it is important to draw a distinction between two very different things, namely, the structure of a liturgical office and the contents of it.
There are divines among us who in the interest of a more sharply defined orthodoxy are conscientiously bent upon securing the reintroduction among our formularies of the so-called Athanasian Creed.
To be sure, the General Convention spoiled all this by insisting on retaining certain duplicated formularies which the Committee had very properly dropped in order to find room for fresh material.
Under the head of liturgical enrichment ought to be classed whatever alteration would really serve to enhance the beauty, majesty, or fitness, of accepted formularies of worship.
The advantage to a Church of being able to keep all its authoritative formularies of worship within the compass of a single volume is inestimable.
Doubtless this might be a sufficient answer to anybody who imagined that by a bare majority vote of two successive General Conventions new formularies of daily worship could be forced upon the Church.
Setting aside now, for the present, that portion of the formularies which corresponds to the Ritual and Pontifical of the mediaeval Church, I proceed to speak rapidly of the antecedents of Breviary and Missal.
Bacon in 'Promus' is writing down 'Formularies and Elegancies,' modes of salutation.
Why are we all always to be bound by the formularies of a past age, which avowedly represent a certain state of past opinion, a certain balance of parties?
The public and ceremonial use of formularies is another matter where clearly the will of the majority should decide.
And halting formularies lead to halting souls, and to the proclamation of the strange device that religious truth is of no consequence so long as men lead good lives.
Halting formularies say it when they point to matter, which God has glorified, as inglorious.
All liturgical formularies and prescribed prayers, even the Lord’s Prayer not excepted, were set aside, as hindering the mission of the Holy Spirit in the congregation.
Human interpretations and inferences--and all Church formularies were such--were binding on no one but those who had reason to think them true; and therefore least of all on undergraduates who could not have examined them.
But he claimed nothing but what he could maintain to be fairly within the authorised formularies of the English Church.
These formularies implied the authority of the Church to speak; and what was defined on this authority was based on good evidence, though there were portions of its teaching which had even better.
O that the Spirit of God might breathe the life of every day's practical action into those ancient Catholic formularies which are at present a reproach to our degeneracy!
That is to say, they have tacitly shaken off the old forms--the Creeds and formularies that bind the visible, the legal, church.
Those subsequent formularies represent the different degrees of declension which, according to this system, correspond to the different degrees in which this natural distribution of things is violated.
Its life must be consistent with theformularies with which it is embodied.
I think it would appear from this that it may yet be in many cases both lawful and expedient to teach religious formularies in rate schools.
For some time while religious fervour was at its height both Lutherans and Calvinists held fast by their religious formularies and refused to accept the scriptural views of Socinus.
At best these formularies were only the works of men who rejected the authority of the Church, and as works of men they could not be regarded as irreformable.
In like manner, formularies somewhat different may sometimes express the same christian idea considered under different aspects.
The faithful were relieved of the fatigue of examining, of reflecting, of contending; all that they had to do was to repeat the formularies they had been taught.
Though much of the old organisation and many of the old formularieshad been retained, its articles, its homilies, the constant teaching of its founders, breathed a spirit of unquestionable Protestantism.
And this diversity exists in a Church which is held together by articles and formularies of the sixteenth century.
The Church-of-Englander luckily escapes making shipwreck here; the legal interpretation of the formularies saves him.
The formularies of the Inquisition contained a full assortment of arbitrary mandates which it employed, in place of seeking the legal courses prescribed in the Concordias, by which the king and the Córtes sought to preserve the peace.
One has to say to B what one has said to A; to C exactly what one has said to A and B; and when it comes to repeating to F theformularies one has uttered to A, B, C, D and E one grows almost hysterical with the boredom of it.
That was the delightful charm of Eleanor Faversham; she demanded no formularies or re-enactment of raptures.
But by no means is it so in the recognised formularies of the established Churches and in the teachings of the popular clergy.
It is the natural mistake of a crude age to suppose that God does the same, breathing verbal formularies into the of minds of his selected servants.
It has already been seen that the radicalism involved in his religious attitude should by rights have issued in a freedom, nay, licence, which would have rendered impossible any binding formularies of faith.
As to Liberalism, we think the formularies of the Church will ever, with the aid of a good Providence, keep it from making any serious inroads upon the Clergy.
It seems a dream to call a communion Catholic, when one can neither appeal to any clear statement of Catholic doctrine in its formularies, nor interpret ambiguous formularies by the received and living Catholic sense, whether past or present.
Church of England was not dogmatic in its spirit, though the wording of its formularies may often carry the sound of dogmatism (p.
There is in the British Museum a manuscript, in Bacon's handwriting, entitled "Promus ofFormularies and Elegancies.
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