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Excerpt from Early Days of the Presbyterian Branch: Of the Holy Catholic Church, in the State of Minnesota
Appoint John Knox Bishop of Rochester; he will prove a Whetstone to the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the mes sage to Cecil from the Duke of Northumberland. If the ap pointment had been made, there might have been no room for the work which the Presbyterian Church has performed during the last three centuries.
Upon many points Knox and Archbishop Cranmer were in harmony. In accordance with the suggestion of Calvin, the English Church published a summary of Christian doctrine, and had expressed the teachings Of the Apostle Paul in the seventeenth of the thirty-nine Articles, which was fully accepted by the Scotch Reformer.
Nor did they differ in relation to the orders of the ministry. The latter, notwithstanding his position, explicitly declared, that there were but two orders, and that the ordination of the Swiss and French Churches was as valid as that of the Church of England, for it was not until the reigns of the vacillating Stuarts, that the Church of England assumed the intolerable position, that the ordination of a priest of Rome was valid, while that of a Presbyterian minister was invalid.
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