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Excerpt from A Charge to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Archdeaconry of Oxford: Delivered in May 1879, at His First Visitation
Why do I speak, some one may ask, of things which might have been if men in past time had acted otherwise than they have acted? Because I cannot think that the time is even yet past for such things. Because such things may be still, if we will accept the old principle of Ignatius, to do nothing without our Bishop; if we will submit ourselves (in the language of the Ordination Ser vice) to his godly judgment, and allow him to guide our consciences, as our Chief Pastor, in mat ters of ritual controversy. Whatever View men may take of their relation to Courts of Law, I cannot despair of any Priest, who believes in his own orders and mission, confessing that there is a real province discoverable, in which his promise at ordi nation to obey his Ordinary and his oath of canoni cal obedience after ordination bind him; I cannot despair of his coming to see that the conduct of public worship in the place to which his Bishop has sent him is a part of that province.
But I must enter on thornier ground. I wish to set before you a view, which seems to me the true one, of our relation as Clergy to the Courts of Law.
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