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THE TRACTARIANS AND THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.

A considerable Dumber of the English Tractarian clergy, including the principal men in the party, as Dr. Pusey, Archdeacons Wilberforce, and Denison, have signed a protest against the proselytising tendencies of the Anglican^ Bishop of Jerusalem. They *ay — The Bishop who is at the present time entrusted with that authority, by name Gobat, entirely neglecting the commands of our late Me* tropolitan, and transgressing the injunctions which limit his authority, is harrassing the orthodox Eastern Church, as if it were corrupting the apostolic doctrines; and to such a pitch has he arrived that he receives proselytes from the Eastern Church, and congregates them into a certain schismatical synagogue. Whence it has come to pass that the Anglican Church is brought into suspicion with your Holiness, as if she were waging war against the ancient faith, and daring to bring in secretly other new dogmas. We, therefore, whose names are undersigned, bishops, priests, and deacons of the Anglo* Catholic Church, make this declaration as follows : — We altogether protest against all such acts done or now doing by Samuel Gobat, as proceeding from himself alone, and without the sanction of our Church ; vre would especially express our abhorrence of bis proselytising practices, as being repugnant to the compact {ratified A^jD. 1851) and as being direct infractions of -dig canons of the Church. We therefore pVay your Holiness not to i/npud these scandals to us'nnd our Church. And we trust that this explanation will be received in a friendly spirit ; and that your prayers may ever ascend for the well being of the Holy Churches of God and the union of all. The 'Church Record, which publishes the above extracts, explains that — The " Holiness" referred to, and to whom the protest is addressed, comprise — The Most Holy Lord Antbimus, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Oecumenical Patriarch ; the Most Holy Lord Hierotbeus, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, and (Ecumenical Judge; the Most Holy Lord , Patriarch of Antiocb, and of all the East ; the Most Holy Cyril, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and of all Palestine ; the Most Holy Governing Synod of the Kingdom of Greece. The publication of the protest has elicited a warm rebuke from the Primates of the English Church, who publish the following communication in the Times: — Whereas certain clergymen have addressed a memorial to the Oriental Patriarchs and Synods, in which the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem is accused of having exceeded the proper objects of his mission, and of introducing schism into the Eastern Churches : And whereas some of the names affixed to the said document are the names of persons who hold official stations in the United Church of England and Ireland, and it might be supposed, at least in foreign parts, that a censure of the Bishop, as-having acted withoutdue authority from His church* would not be made by persons who were themselves acting without such authority : j Therefore w^, the Metropolitans of the United Church of England and Ireland, deem it expedient to make this public' declaration that the said I memorial does not in any manner emanate from i the said church or from persons authorised by that church to pronounce decisions. j We are induced to take this step, first, in order to guard against the danger which might arise to out own church from the example ot the irregular and unauthorised proceedings of the memorialists; and, further, because we sympathise with our brother, the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, in his arduous position, and feel assured that his conduct, under the circumstances, will be guided by sound judgment and discretion. J. B. Cantuar T. Ebor John G. Armagh Richard Dublin. November 1, 1853. A few days after, the following letter from the Tractarian Bishop of Exeter appeared in the columns of the same journal : — Bishopstowe, October 24, 1853. My dear Dr. Mill, — I have received a letter from a friend informing me that the absence of my name from the protest now in circulation against certain acts of the Right Rev. Bishop

Gobat (called by many Bishop of Jerusalem) has been considered as a proof of my disapproving that protest. Permit me to say that such a conclusion is wholly unfounded. I declined to sign that protest — and, indeed, to inquire into the statements on which it is based — simply because I had pretiously protested, by a formal instrument addressed to the late Archbishop of Canterbury (under date May 25, 1846), egainsi the consecration of any successor to Bishop Alexander at Jerusalem, as involving very grave violations of the laws of the Catholic Church, and of our own branch of it in particular. Having made that protest, I cannot enter into consideration 0/ the deta'ls of conduct on the part of him who ought not, in ray judgment, to have been sent thither by any authority of this Cburch or country to minister as a bishop, without the express permission of the bishop within whose diocese Jerusalem is situate. In truth, I know not how to distinguish the principle of that act from the mission of an Archbishop of Westminster by the Pope. — Believe me, my dear sir, very faithfully yours, H. Exeter. Rev. Dr. Mill.

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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 895, 1 March 1854, Page 4

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THE TRACTARIANS AND THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 895, 1 March 1854, Page 4

THE TRACTARIANS AND THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 895, 1 March 1854, Page 4

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