Monday, February 13, 2006

The Anglican Ordinal

If sacramental ordination of ministers from protestant communions who lack Apostolic Orders is inappropriate, then what does one do with the preface to the Ordinal of 1662, which is an authoritative Anglican formulary?:'No man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful Bishop, Priest, or Deacon, in this Church... except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted thereunto, according to the Form hereafter following, or hath had Episcopal Consecration or Ordination.'Any wilful ongoing rejection of this axiomatic formulary, which has been binding on the Church of England and her daughter Churches since the Restoration, is simply un-Anglican, not to mention contumacious.

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