According to a second account of Balmerino, James was not averse to correspondence with Pope Clement, but had scruples about addressing him by his apostolical titles, which were therefore afterwards prefixed by Balmerino to the letter which James, who was aware of its contents, had signed without hesitation.
12.
But if such a thing should be, the crimes of that nation will probably begin in infringement on Apostolical Rights; she will end in persecuting the true Church; and in the several stages of her melancholy career, she will continually be led on from bad to worse by vain endeavours at accommodation and compromise with evil.
13.
Tattam in 1848 published the " The Apostolical Constitutions, or Canons of the Apostles ", which includes the so-called " Alexandrine Sinodos " ( or " Clementine Heptateuch " ) made of the Apostolic Church-Ordinance, the Egyptian Church Order and a free version of the eight book of the Apostolic Constitutions.
14.
Keble said that if " the Apostolical Church should be forsaken, degraded, nay trampled on and despoiled by the State and people of England, I cannot conceive a kinder wish for her, on the part of her most affectionate and dutiful children, than that she may, consistently, act in the spirit of this most noble sentence ".
15.
Are not offices conferred, partnerships formed, intimacies courted, nay ( what is almost too painful to think of ), do not parents commit their children to be educated, do they not encourage them to intermarry, in houses, on which Apostolical Authority would rather teach them to set a mark, as unfit to be entered by a faithful servant of Christ?
16.
On 3 July 1726 Henry opened his so-called'Oratory', a meeting room built over the Nicene and Athanasian creeds, two creeds taken from the Apostolical Constitutions; for his'Primitive Eucharist'he made use of unleavened bread and mixed wine; and, most interestingly, he distributed medals of admission to his'Oratory'at the price of one shilling.
17.
The year 1842 43 was spent abroad, chiefly in Germany, in obtaining materials for a revised edition of a work on the " Antiquities of the Christian Church ", which he had compiled in 1841, and in preparation for a work on " The Apostolical and Primitive Church ", which appeared in 1844, with an introduction by Dr . August Neander.
18.
In his great " Dictionary " ( 1755 ) Johnson defined a Tory as " one who adheres to the ancient Constitution of the state and the apostolical hierarchy of the Church of England, opposed to a Whig . " He linked 18th-century Whiggism with 17th-century revolutionary Puritanism, arguing that the Whigs of his day were similarly inimical to the established order of church and state.
19.
As the divergences between the theory of'the godly prince'and the practices of monarchs like James II, William III and the early Georges became more obvious, Pearson and Beveridge saw the " Apostolical Office " of the bishop as a guarantee of the Church's identity and this formed the back-ground to the vital emphasis placed on it by Newman and the other Tractarians, through whom it passed into Anglo-catholic thought.
20.
Here he protested against the adoption of the thirty-first article of the Belgic Confession, which affirmed'that the ministers of the Word of God, in what place soever settled, have the same advantage of character, the same jurisdiction and authority, in regard they are all equally ministers of Christ, the only universal Bishop and Head of the Church .'Carleton maintained the doctrine of apostolical succession in opposition to this levelling article; his protest was ineffectual.
