ECCLESIASTICAL INCLUSION.
[To TR EDITOR Or TH1 .SPICTATOR."1 SIE.—If precedent be really needed in these days of enlighten- ment, the following two patterns of " inclusion " are interesting, and may possibly point the way to a solution. Archbishop Bramhall "included" a Scotch presbyter thus :— "Not destroying his former Orders, not determining their validity or invalidity, but only supplying what the Canons of the English Church require and providing that occasion of schism be removed and the faithful assured that they may not doubt of his ordination or be averse to his presbyterial act as invalid."
Archbishop Grindal used this form :—
"Called to the ministry by the imposition of hands according to the laudable form and rite of the Reformed Church of Scotland, We, therefore, approving and ratifying the form of your ordination and preferment, grant you a license and faculty in such orders by you taken. You may and have power to celebrate the divine offices, to minister the Sacraments.'
Gigglenvick-M-Cranen.
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