ON THE PERPETUITY OF THE CHURCH: A SERMON ON THE PARABLE OF THE UNJUST STEWARD. _Price_ 1_s._ 6_d._ * * * * * RIVINGTONS, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH YARD, & WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL. FOOTNOTES. {1} The Feast of St. Andrew. {8} Not _justly_ so; because in writing to his own people, there was not perhaps the same necessity for vindicating his apostolate. {10} See Notes. No. I. {11} Philippians ii. 22. 25. {24} They who would wish to investigate this subject further, may find it fully treated in Leslie’s “Case of the Regale and Pontificate.” {26a} See Newman’s History of the Arians, p. 347. {26b} Quoted by Leslie, from Bp. Burnet, p. 30. {30} It has been well remarked, that the consequence of allowing it to be said “that we are a Parliamentary Church,” has been, that the higher ranks among us are verging towards Deism, and the lower to Fanaticism. The former, not believing that there can be much Divine in a religion which they can shape and modify as they please in the Senate. And the other, seeing nothing very “scriptural,” or heavenly, in a “State-made” Creed. {41} The first week in Advent. {45} This prophecy seems taken by the ancient Fathers to refer to the Holy Eucharist. {46} It may be sufficient perhaps to refer to “Hey’s Threefold Ministry,” as a synopsis of the Scriptural view of the subject. {47} See Bishop Hall’s Episcopacy by Divine right. {48} See Notes, No. II. {58} Originating probably from a _literal_ interpretation of Matt, xviii. 20. Just as the bowing at The Blessed Name seems derived, by Catholic and pious practice taking _literally_ Philippians ii. 10. {60} And our false position is frequently increased by our tacitly admitting the _popular_ antithesis between ourselves and the continental Churches, which are taken _in a mass_—and called, all together, “The Church of Rome!”—Thus we practically overlook the _fact_, That the Church of Rome is one _particular_ Italian Church: and so increase our own apparent difficulty. {62a} See Notes, No. II. {62b} Of the authenticity of the first fifty at least of the Apostolical Canons, there can now be no doubt. They consist of those rules which had grown up in the Church in the Apostles’ days, and the first hundred years after them. They seem to have been composed very early indeed, but gathered together about a hundred years after the death of St. John, (probably, it is said, by Clement of Alexandria) and they are quoted as _ancient_, about a hundred years later. {63a} See the Canons of Nice, and the earlier ones of Ancyra and Neocesarea, in Routh’s edition of the Scriptor. Opus, and the Rel. Sacr. vol. iii., and Tertullian adv. Hær. c. 36.