The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

""406 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.And these doctrines are upheld, not by one eminent divine only, but by hundreds of clergymen, aswell as by thousands of the Protestant Episcopaliansof England.What a strange spectacle to behold the samechurch teaching diametrically opposite doctrines!What is orthodox in the diocess of Bath and Wellsisdecidedly heterodox in the diocess of North Carolina. An ordinance which Rev. Mr. Grueber proclaims to be of divine faith, is characterized by Rt.Rev. Bishop Atkinson l as the invention of men.What Dr. Grueber inculcates as a most salutarypractice, Dr. Atkinson anathematizes as pernicious toreligion. Confession, which, in the judgment of theformer, is a great check upon the commission ofis sin," stigmatized by the latter as an incentive tosin. Behold how good and pleasantit is forbrethen to dwell together in unity."2Suppose that the venerable Protestant EpiscopalBishop of North Carolina, in passing through England, were invited by the Rev. Mr. Grueber topreach in his church in the morning, and that theRt. Rev. Prelate chose for his subject a sermon onConfession ;and suppose that the Rev. Mr. Grueberselected in the evening, as the subject of his discourse, the doctrine advanced by him in his catechism.Let us imagine some benighted dissenter attend-1The Protestant Episcopal Bishop oi North Carolina.a Ps. cxxxii.