Vindication of Anglican orders.

Good set lt. frayed orig. slate cloth. Vol. 2 in smaller format. 2 vols.: xix, [2], 436 + viii, [3], [437]-602, [1], cclxxxi p.; 25 and 23 cm. Vol. 2 with red upper edge, diocesan bookplate From the preface: `A Vindication of Anglican Orders appears to be called for at certain intervals, not because there is any doubt of their validity on the part of those who hold them, but because the adversaries of the Church of England, in order to defend their own position, constantly renew the attack. Year by year the anomaly of the Italian Mission in England grows greater. It is seen more and more clearly at Rome that Anglican Orders must be discredited at all costs, else the Bishops and Priests sent to England by the Bishop of Rome stand self-confessed as intruders, and fomenters of schism. If Anglican Orders are valid, then not only are the Papal party incurring the guilt of raising Altar against Altar, but the fundamental law of the Supreme Sovereignty of the Bishop of Rome is set at nought by a Church having lawful jurisdiction. No one Bishop can by his ipse dixit validate or invalidate our Orders, but if a declaration of one who even wrongly claims such an authority may cause fellow-Christians to fall into error and sin, then it behooves us as members of the one body to do our utmost to save them from such grievous injury. Fearing lest the late pronouncement of Leo XIII. should cause many Christians to fall into the dangerous error of denying the validity of our Orders, and the efficacy of our Sacraments, I address myself to the consideration of the Bull entitled "Apostolicae Curae."'. Binding is Hardcover.…