DR. HAMPDEN.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 5, 23 May 1848, Page 3

DR. HAMPDEN.

To the Editor of the Cork Constitution. Si r,—The Constitution of Thursday last contained a letter, which the Morning Chronic'e assures us was written by a Bishop—though certainly the style of the document would lead one 10 think more humbly of its authorship—in w'aich it wis stited tliat the persons who opposed Dr. Hampden's appointment did so " bec2u.be his opinions differed from thei.s, as Piotestate from Tracta- fan." Lord J. Russell also tells us that he believes the nomination of l>r. Hampden " will tend to streugtben the Pratt slant chardc:er of our Church ;'* and his Lordship hirps upon *• the defections to Rome," as if they wore not intimately connected with the matter in hand. This U a owe , altempt to mislead public opinioa; and it is pitiful ti see a man of Ljrd J„ Russell's powers display su.h j ignorance, or stoop to so mean an artifice. To let j your readers see, in some measure, the true bearing of I the case, I send you a few extracts from Dr. Hampden's famous Bampton Lectures, which will, I think, shew that those who put himforwardasthe Coryphceus of ProU-slantism really mean that he is ''a Latitudinariau and something mure." extracts. " D alecticul Science established that peculiar phraseology which we ;aow use, in speaking of the feacred Triuily as Three persons and One God.*' — Bamptnn Lectures, p. I JO. " There is much of i.he laiguaee of PUttonism in the speculation on the < feneration of the hoa and the Procestiou uf the Holy Spirit."—p. 117. *' The application of the term punishment to the sacrifice of our Saviour belongs to the Aristotelic Philosopl y."—p. 230. " Th° bane of ihis philosophy of expiation was that it deprissed the power oi man too 10w."—253. " ' Atoueiuenv' hi its true practic.il sense expresses the fact, 'hat tee cannot 'be at peace without some consctousn ss of atonement made, not that God m.iy forgive us, but ire may forgive ourselves."— p. 232. " Our Siviour's raoae of speaitinx, that virtue had Ecne out of llim, is characteristic of the % •cvmling idea concerning ihe operation of the Divin« Influence as of something passing from one bojy to another."—p. 313. " A participation of the Deity, or an actual Delficatnn of our nature, is the fundamental hit a of the optitttion of grace, acconHn"-to schoolmen, and is a pantheistic notion."—p. 197. "The speculative language of these Creeds ( f he None and the Athanasian) was admitted into the Church of England, as established by the Reformers, before the genius of Bacon had exposed the a/iphness of the system which the schools had palmed U| oi the world as the only instrument for tbe discovery of truth.''—p. 378. " A positive deterioration of our carnal nature is a scholastic notion.'*—p. 22j. "The idea of the conuption, of nature existing in ini'tnts, is the result of theory."—p. 221. " Tin* conception produced in the mind by speaking of giace operating and co-operating, gnce preventing ami fflluioi'ig, is very erroneous."—p. 187. "To regard Grace as something ' infused' into the soul, by vittud of which the sinner is justitied, and the operation of which on the heart, U to be traced through the stiges of its process, is part of the scholastic system."—p. ISS 9. "Th? notion that the sacraments are visible channels, through which virtue is couveyed from Clin at Him=elf to Hi-* mystical Body, the Church, is put of the theoretic view of the Scholastic Philosophy.'*— p. 311. I "The assertion of a real and true ('verily and indeed,' See Church Oitcch ) presence of Christ in til Eudiamt resulted ,'from the original Platinum of the Church."—p. 72. "Tlit: popular belief in '.he separatt existence <■ 1 tbe soul i> a remnant ot scholasticism."—p. dlO. *" Unitarians, in that they acknowledge the lun-T-i'iieatal fact-, of the Bible, do not really diftlr in riliyi'itt uom othei Christian*."'—Observ. p. 20. " KeveLtion teiches us ouiy, that God has manifested luniself to m, as the Father, the bun. jaiJ the It ly t;tiubt."~p. 20. ' •■ The impjrfecuou ot the writes (of scripture) may .i-.-io u'jily miu-e alloy mto the tbnaacr of tuc , 'trat^ t -.«.u !DS liod. -p !■-■. " I tLiA, >,i, tlur. x ilunuJT r. I*o.. U.y h*rt. , in I Ciiurchtm.'ii. tU i •».> a» f-vli -i a »■ 1. ! a i; , -louM uitiiJiubt then h-ci.j,* gainst the crutl . .ml urni. hteuu* rwauiiv whuh »iu.nu iut.J upon lie. . 1,, ~:<■-a ,' .1 in. . I.i,.in a ..i'n t v»lujm Ui.r, !-, ■ .'U.i i>u mm i rtl . c ot t.„ ~». ,'um. .m 1.'..- 1 I, ih.t fene .1 \ , ~\ 1 ml nail pi 1.. I ,n-.nl 1 b-: i_tf.ud to 1 U' \ , ji.l \! m;.h, H.tt.l ol t-c Ciiuich, >Ud lit. .i.lli.m I ..1 >• t \M a u. t h -Hi .-i His sav.uni ly " *iti,c*b I

1 a gund confession"—firmly «' to sneak the truth, and/' 1 if bucli is His will, *' patiently to suffer tor tbe truth** ;.»Ve." D. ! The foregoing extracts, with others to the same ; effect, appeared lately, under the signature cf " Prlsi byter," in the Ttne ; but a writer in the Morning \ Chronicle alleged, if he did not piove, that they j resented a very imperfect, and, in their t*e ached state, a very erroneous view of the doctrines taught by Dr. Hampden, whose practice it was to distinguish between the tact affirmed, and the theory founded en it by theologians. We don't know whether our friend took the extracts from ihe Lcciurcs, and has therefore satisfied hiinseli of their fairness, or from a newspaper, and may therefurc be inadvertently doing an injustice: neither can we say whether the Lectures aie or are not obnoxious to the leisures pronounced on ibem; but our Correspondent will j ard<>u us for making thesu observations, as we do ao in outer that he may not unconsciously commit hiiuu-li or others to a course that he might hereafter discover to be unwarranted or unjust.

To the Editoi ofthv Cork Co.;s/i(;l!oU. LVcmbM 18. Sir,—A feeling seem? to previil turt the Irish Clergy have little to Bay to matters ./Wi tine the Church in England—a feeling winch seemi ti grateful, if we remember nothing further back lhau the exertions of the English Clergy in our behalf dnr»v the Iw winter, ' and surely unreasonable, inasmuch a* the union between our Church and the EnghbU i> such that they have no separate identity; yet if t>uch an ''pinion did not exist very extensively, it is not possible but that some demonstration would have been, etc this, made m Ireland on the subject of the appointment of Dr. Hampden to tlie See of Huvford. It onivlv cannot have been forgotten that this clergyman, h hi* tourse of Bampton Lectures, preached, and afterwr.ids jinn cd t explicitly assailed the faith of the Church upon the doctrines of the Holj Trinity, origin I sin. the operations of grace, the sacraments the miracles of our Lord, and other points, and t-r this was condemned m 1330 by the Universi .of Oxford—a condemnation never siuce repealed. ±"ws Haaapii. n cun'roversy was not then, ond is not non, a high Church or low Church di-pute. In raisin ■ Dr. then to the Regius Professor's clnir, mil kjw tu one o'. tSc thrones of the Church, a b:«in- n aioed at tue F i ! i itbdf; accoidingly, then rnd now. 'V- W.iole Cbuih ii England has heen ro'>ed. T'.iitd-n of the ,!i u;ys in a body,the Arclib..-hop of C.(it:rbiiiy andanolher liuhop separately, have deu*u-d pii.t.-'i*.* to t!n Prime Minister against ins appointment, a-d ths C'erey throughout England ' l<ue m then archdeaconries. " Pi-oz. n. <'t't!,* m; us hi i " nostra res aj>it>n:*' Oat cu ji. an upon the ! Chu-ch in England *.hftJtciieJ ao d.s:usf-oua con»e----1 quences to ourselves, uie-v ou-- hrethnn ihserve that we bhould shew thai- . il our -jwath. e* are awakened in tluir behalf. Now, rim fie F-»tli- r» of thd English Church •' lm.; oU 'hr-ir 'janner* on th? outer wall," we thouid, it w** can d.> no more, at lean let it be seen that our hearts are nit.i ihtrin. I wouhl, then-f -re, rj pc» f M.iy (M'opose, tbat those clergymen why are Jt|t. J 10 cid, la this matter, should, without del -.. *. i-J :> .>li. V.n;an, U Hi Tract Shop, i.mhen.y ro :' c; u..mes tu mi address to th.-l>u-'ea. o; ~u i'- '..t; fjl.jwuu: is a copy, which duu itUsa, L'J.d G.mip! au-U uudenake to present to her Majesty. I» u .,3.i.fiiLfj 'v -ouis, CLERICUS. ** To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. " May it please >uar Maj.it.,— ue, t.e umlersigned Clergymen ot Vw t.iited Diuuesu oi C u ik, Cloyne, and Ross have hcir.l, with tie deepest distress and alarm, tii.it it h been I?r- pc cd fj your Majesty Co recommend fi me va: -uit tit -hojinc of Hereford Dr. R. D. Hamr-Jcn, who h tbarbed by authority with basing mdnt.uned hr*ret>cal opiuions, and upon this ciarge kj, condemned by your Majesty's Uci\e sity cf LM'ord. "Wo feel that suoti an will greatly dishearten the faithful, and must tend tj weaken the tie that binds the CLuuh to t't.c State. " We therefore pray ti> yoar M«jj&ty. uhose glorious title is the Defender oS tin: Faith, w.K I>l f.-iacn-usly pleased to signify la di Ai.'U'Mnp and Bi 3 hop& ot the Province of tint they shall be ir<=e t» discharge their own matter of confirmatiau and consecration wiihuut fear of the penalties of any anient statute beiug put m force against them. 1 '