The English Ordinal, Its History, Validity, and Catholicity
by MacKenzie Edward C Walcott (9781458872494)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE TESTIMONIALS REQUIRED FROM THE CANDIDATE. " The appointment of Times for solemn Ordination is but the public demand of tbe Church in the Name of the Lord Himself, ' Whom shall I send 1 who shall go for usi?' The confluence of men, whose inclinations are bent that way, is but the answer thereunto, whereby the labours of sundry being offered, the Church hath freedom to take whom her agents, in such cases, think meet and requisite V The Candidate having ascertained, according to the rules given in the preceding Chapter, what his real motives are in desiring the Office of a Deacon, and trusting that he is moved by the Holy Ghost in this most solemn undertaking, proceeds to apply to the Bishop to give effect to his wishes. He has heard the call of the Church, and would obey it; but now the Church requires that he should be dulytried and examined. She admits his proof that he is "learned in the Latin Tongue, and sufficiently instructed in Holy Scripture"?the indispensable qualifications of a teacher of the people. She demands a guarantee of qualities yet more essential to the same, that " the Bishop, either by himself, or by sufficient testimony, should know the person to be a man of virtuous conversation, and without crime," as " a thing most simple, most plain, most harmless, most agreeable with the law of common humanity, that where men are not known, they should use for their easier access the credit of such as can best give testimony of them '." i Isa. vi. 8. 1 Hooker, Eccl. Pol. b. v. c. Ixxvii. xi. The certificates, which are necessary, must convey the assurance, I. That the Candidate is of fit age (according to the law of the Church) for the Order of Deacon. The usual, because the most convenient, certificate of age is, at the same time, a ce...

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