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Two Fellowships at Clare Hall are now vacant. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. NOVEMBER, 1846. The Real Danger of the Church of England. By the Rev. W. GRESLEY, M.A., Prebendary of Lichfield. Fifth Edition. London. Burns. 1846. An Apology for the Evangelical Party; being a Reply to the It is with much reluctance that we at any time approach the subject of religious controversy; but this reluctance is greatly increased when they who stand as antagonists in the controversy are both included among the number of our brethren, both jointmembers with ourselves of that beloved and honoured Church whose dutiful sons and zealous champions we trust ever to remain. Still we cannot refrain from taking some notice of pamphlets so important as those which Mr. Gresley has recently published. Danger to the Church' is a subject not to be lightly passed over by those who desire above all things her welfare. If the danger' be imaginary, in heaven's name let it be shown that there is no need for alarm; if it be real, then much more are we bound to speak of it. We trust that in our remarks upon the subject of Mr. Gresley's pamphlet we shall be able to avoid the besetting sins of controversialists, personality and acrimony. We believe we have hitherto been tolerably successful in excluding from our pages all party heat and violence. It is our earnest wish to VOL. III. S S think no evil of any man; to attribute no unworthy motives, nay, so far as our ability extends, to do full justice to each and all of those parties or persons whom we oppose, to enter into their feelings, to appreciate their excellences, to make allowance for their difficulties. We shall not shrink, indeed, from calling things by their right names-heresy must be called heresydishonesty, dishonesty-but such plain speaking is, we think, quite compatible with the greatest tenderness for persons' characters. At any rate we will try to make it so. 6 The danger to which Mr. Gresley points is this. There exists,' he says, in the Church of England a school or party of persons who designate themselves "Evangelicals," holding opinions diametrically opposed to the doctrines of the Church to which they belong, and in point of fact "heretical." This party is striving most vigorously and energetically, and by means that are positively schismatical, to extend and perpetuate itself at home and abroad. Circumstances favour it; and there is a likelihood that ere long it will acquire a complete supremacy over the whole Church, and will then proceed to remodel the Church, thereby in fact destroying it.' Everybody will at once admit that if these allegations be true, the Church is indeed in most terrible and imminent peril. The chief heresy' of which Mr. Gresley accuses the Evangelicals' is the denial of baptismal regeneration.' There are other points of false doctrine upon which he animadverts, but this is undoubtedly the head and front'-the real gravamen of the charge-the point, on the establishing or non-establishing of which the whole struggle between him and his antagonists must ultimately turn. One of the leading Evangelicals,' Mr. Close, perpetual curate of Cheltenham, has, in the name of the party attacked, declared that the accusation is false, that he holds the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, and is not aware that his views are at all different from those which the Church espouses. He has explained his views with tolerable clearness; and there is no reason for doubting that he has stated fairly the doctrine which is really held by at least one great section of the party in whose name he speaks. The question to be decided will be, 'Is this belief the belief of the Church? is it within the limits of that latitude which the Church of England allows even to her ministers?' In the following passage Mr. Close explains the view which he takes of the matter: In the Church's language I pray for the spiritual blessing to accompany the outward ordinance [of baptism], administered, according to the commandment of Christ, to our dear children. Most scripturally the Church calls upon me not to doubt, but earnestly to believe, that the prayer of faith has been heard and answered; and in reliance on the general promises of God to believing prayer, I give thanks to God for the blessing vouchsafed; and until a wicked life, and hopeless that the blessing was not granted, I never question it.' death, prove (p. 16.) He also tells us very explicitly what view of the doctrine he does not hold. If,' he says, by the doctrine of baptismal regeneration he [Mr. Gresley] means that in every case, and in all cases of infant baptism, effectual grace is imparted, and that the child's moral nature undergoes that spiritual change which fits it for the kingdom of God, I have no hesitation in avowing my unbelief of any such theory, which I regard as nothing more nor less than the opus operatum of the papists.' The question then will be, which of these two is the doctrine of the Church of England? Is the doctrine of the Church that effectual grace is imparted to all infants at the time of their baptism, and that the child's moral nature at that time undergoes that spiritual change which fits it for the kingdom of heaven, or is it that nothing of this sort takes place, or in the case of some children only? And this question is to be answered by reference to the Church's formularies. If they are not clear, if they leave the question undecided, then it must be viewed as an open question, one on which the ministers of the Church are allowed to entertain whichever opinion they may prefer. The Church formularies which bear upon the nature of baptism are these: the ninth, fifteenth, sixteenth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-seventh Articles, the baptismal services, and theCatechism. Let us see what these state on the subject. First, the Article on the Sacraments declares that sacraments are certain sure witnesses and effectual signs of grace, and God's good will towards us, by the which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also strengthen and confirm our faith in Him.' Secondly, the Article on Baptism asserts that Baptism is a sign of regeneration or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church, and the promises of forgiveness of sins, and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed.' Thirdly, the fifteenth Article declares, that in Christ there was no sin, but ALL we the rest, although baptized and born again in Christ, yet offend in many things." In the ninth Article, the word baptized of the English version is rendered by 'renati' in the Latin. The sixteenth Article, entitled Of Sin after Baptism,' uses |