TABLE OF CONTENTS. [AN ACCOUNT OF ADDITIONS TO THE THIRD EDITION. State of the controversy arising from the publication of the work Bishop Trimnel's general charge of strangeness in clergy of a reformed ib. The Eucharist is a proper sacrifice, though representative That there is a material sacrifice in it proved from the Apostolical Con- Other sacrificial terms in the account of the institution Testimonies of Peter Lombard and St. Thomas Aquinas considered Sense of the term 'proper' as applied to the sacrifice in the Eucharist His direct testimonies to the Eucharistic sacrifice St. Chrysostom, as alleged by Bishop Trimnel, explained Parallel of typical sacrifices which were yet proper ones St. Chrysostom's qualification added to exalt the commemorative His positive testimony to the Eucharist being a proper sacrifice 32 ib. II. OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE CHURCH ON THE STATE. It is not true that the chief promoters of this doctrine are nonjurors Additions to the Appendix on this subject Casaubon de Libertate Ecclesiastica Defence against the charge of magnifying the priestly office III. ON THE SACERDOTAL POWER OF ABSOLUTION. Bishop Trimnel misrepresents the views of those who maintain this doctrine The power ministerial only - Thorndike's statements on the Divine institution of absolution On the general necessity of it On private confession (quoting Origen) Testimony of St. Isidore Pelusiota in the case of Zosimus Dodwell's statements on the absolute necessity of sacerdotal absolution, maintained in substance Hickes' apology - An account of the author's conference with a lady who had been of the Church How the substance of the said conference was at her desire drawn up into - Two objections afterward started against these Propositions; the one by a - 61 The occasion of the author's writing his discourse of the Dignity of the Epis- III. Of the episcopal dignity and jurisdiction That the bishops are the Apostles' successors, by unexceptional wit- [SECT. II.-REAL VIEWS OF THE AUTHOR OF The Rights The occasion of publishing those Two Discourses which these Propositions General reflections upon the method lately taken of attacking the true rights Nothing so needful to the understanding of the controversy between us and the Church of Rome, as a right and complete notion of the Church as a Or even against the natural constitution of man, as he is subject to two dif- The insolence of our modern free-thinkers, deists, and atheists, observed Some reflections upon the wit and humour of these men, in bringing the Holy Their conspiracy against Christ and His Church detected, and their own Their grounds for reviling the order of priests Christ Himself involved in their charge of priestcraft and legerdemain An account of a scandalously blasphemous paper designed to proselyte a And an honourer of the office of a priest in all religions His testimony for the distinction and independency of the sacerdotal from His acting accordingly in different capacities, as an emperor and as a priest ib. - The author of the Rights might hence as well charge the notion of God, the mediation of Christ, the belief of the world to come, &c. to be bor- His calumnies reflect not only on the Christian priesthood, but also on the A fair proposal to the temporal Government THE PREJUDICES OF SOME CHURCHMEN AGAINST CERTAIN DOCTRINES HERE DELIVERED, CANDIDLY CONSIDERED. Which are further vindicated from the dangerous affectation of singularity by the united testimony of the best ancient Christian writers - [SECT. IV.]-AN ANSWER TO THE FOUL IMPUTATION OF PRIESTCRAFT Why this writer abstains from the term of sacrament, as well as from that of Sacrament the same in the Latin as mystery in the Greek Church The general fallacy which runs through his whole book The absurdity and malice of deriving the Christian notion of sacrifice, priest |