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Anglicanism and the Ministry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
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‘Wherefore the apostles, following the rule, doctrine, and commandment of our Saviour Christ, their master, ordained in his kingdom and congregation two officers: one called, after the Greek word, bishop, in English an overseer: which same was called priest after the Greek, elder in English, because of his age, discretion, and sadness… Another officer they chose, and called him deacon after the Greek, a minister in English, to minister the alms of the people unto the poor and needy.’ This is rather a different doctrine of the apostolic succession from that which we normally associate nowadays with Anglican teaching. Its exponent was of course condemned by the traditionalist hierarchy of his day and finally came to a heretic's death. But a generation later the doctrine of Tyndale had become the commonly accepted teaching of the leaders of his Church, and it could be held without any sense of disloyalty to the newly reformed articles and liturgy.
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pege 73 note 1 Tyndale (Parker Society), II; p. 253.
pege 73 note 2 Becon, II, p. 320
pege 74 note 1 Fulke, I, p. 461.
pege 74 note 2 Hooper, I, p. 480.
pege 75 note 1 Coverdale, II, p. 464.
pege 75 note 2 Whitgift, II, p. 356.
pege 75 note 3 Hooper, I, p. 396.
pege 75 note 4 loc. cit.
pege 75 note 5 Fulke, I, p. 265.
pege 76 note 1 Rogers, p. 238.
pege 76 note 2 Jewel, II, p. 908.
pege 76 note 3 Coverdale, II, p. 464.
pege 76 note 4 Bradford, I, p. 506.
pege 77 note 1 Becon, II, p. 319.
pege 77 note 2 Rogers, p. 238.
pege 78 note 1 Tyndale, II, p. 253.
pege 78 note 2 Becon, II, p. 319.
pege 78 note 3 Fulke, I, pp. 264–5.
pege 78 note 4 Bradford, I, p. 506.
pege 78 note 5 Jewel, III, p. 439.
pege 79 note 1 Cf. Rogers, p. 332, where Fulke is quoted.
pege 79 note 2 Whitgift, II, pp. 254–7.
pege 79 note 3 ibid., p. 251.
pege 79 note 4 ibid., I, pp. 438–40.
pege 79 note 5 ibid., p. 432. It is to be noted, however, that in the service of ordination of priests all ‘the priests present shall lay their hands severally upon the head of every one that receiveth the order of priesthood’. The ordination is by the bishop and presbytery, not by the bishop alone.
pege 79 note 6 ibid., II, p. 251.
pege 80 note 1 Whitgift, II, p. 251.