CURRENT LITERATURE.
RESTORATION.
• " Receive the Holy Ghost, for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands ; in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," lee.
Why the alteration ? Did it not show that the Divines of the Restora- tion were uneasy ? Father Raynal lays down the principle that "an expression of the ministerial act which determines the special character con- firmed by the imposition of hands, is absolutely necessary for the validity of the Sacramental Forms of the Sacred Orders." Dr. Littledale and his friends should consider it very seriously. If they have even the slightest
shadow of doubt, they ought not, on their principles, to go on officiating on the strength of questionable orders. And Roman Orders they know are unquestionable. To Dr. Littledale especially, Father Raynal should
commend himself by his hearty abuse of Archbishop Cranmer. "Im-
pious," hypocritical," "almost diabolical hatred " of Catholic doctrines, "pander to royal vice," "sacrilege and duplicity," these are among the flowers of speech which he scatters over his pages. His language, in- deed, is habitually such that it is surprising to find him praising an opponent for being "temperate and courteous." His own line is to talk of "flagrant dishonesty" and "barefaced tricks." Might we suggest that his accentuation is a little queer? Is ;Ipurach so solemn a word that it has two accents ; thus, e.g., igpZ•rrxiis and upzapoaw? The Ordinal of King Edward VI. By Dom Wilfrid RaynaL (Richardson.)—We do not often find ourselves enjoying a Roman Catholic book of controversy, but it is impossible not to feel a certain pleasure in seeing our High-Anglican friends assailed on the weak side of their position. Father Raynal concedes for the sake of argument— is not unwilling, as we understand him, to concede altogether—that Arch- bishop Parker was consecrated by Barlow, and that Barlow was a true bishop; but he maintains that the form of ordination used on that occasion, being the form of the Ordinal of Edward VI., was invalid, WAS not specific enough, as we take it, to "impress the character" of episcopal orders, and that "consequently the whole lineage of the Anglican hierarchy has never possessed that character, descended as it is from him, and consecrated as it was for a hundred years by the same invalid form." The form, it must be noted, was altered at the Restora- tion, and invested with the particularity which it lacked. We exhibit the forms side by side :— KiNG EDWARD VI.
"Take the Holy Ghost, and re- member that thou stir up the grace of God, which is in thee by the im- position of hands, for God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love and of soberness."
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