Excerpt from A Second Letter on the Present Position of the High Church Party in the Church of EnglandWhen Mr. Gorham was refused institution, more than two years ago, I thought that it was almost impossible for him to raise a reasonable question as to the exact teaching of the English church upon baptismal regeneration a question, that is, such as a court would entertain. But time went on, and the real state of things and tone of doctrine which prevailed, for fifty or sixty years after the reign of Henry the eighth, during which the first movers of the changes in religion or their immediate dis ciples still lived, Opened, and became clearer from day to day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.