On the Church of England : sermons & addresses.

vii, 276 p.; 19.5 cm. `It would be idle to pretend that there were not churches in the Diocese of Exeter [where Ryle served as Bishop from 1901-03] in which the services were of a nature calculated to startle others besides the ultra-Protestant. For some forty years people in certain parishes had been familiarised with teaching and ceremonial of the most advanced "Anglo-Catholic" type, and these developments had become so deeply rooted that the congregations had learnt to take them for granted.' (Fitzgerald, A memoir of Herbert Edward Ryle, p. 153) -- `Meanwhile, the Bishop endeavoured to make his position in these controversial matters perfectly clear by his own public teaching on the Church, the Invocation of Saints, Prayers to the Virgin Mary, and the like. In 1904 he collected together a number of his utterances on these points.' (p. 156) -- `The Council of Trent says, "That the Saints reigning together with Christ offer their prayers for men to God, and that it is good and useful to invoke them as suppliants, and for the sake of obtaining benefits from God through our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our only Redeemer and Saviour, to have recourse to their prayers, aid, and assistance." It is this position that our Church has repudiated.' (On the Church of England, p. 180).…