mination, as I have already said, to decline further controversy. As ministers of the Gospel we can both of us be more usefully employed than in agitating such questions, which engender strife; our work is to reconcile animosities, to heal divisions, and to extend the influence of His kingdom, who came to preach peace on earth and good will towards men. To this work may we entirely devote ourselves!

(Signed)

I have the honour to be,

Your obedient servant,

THOMAS KENWORTHY BROWN.

Funchal, Madeira, 10th March, 1848.

The Rev. R. T. Lowe.

APPENDIX.

Protest against the ministrations in Madeira, of the Reverend T. K. Brown, in opposition to Episcopal Authority, and in violation of the Laws and Constitution of the Church of England. By the Reverend R. T. Lowe, the chaplain licensed by the Lord Bishop of London.

Sine Episcopo nemo quidquam faciat eorum, quæ ad Ecclesiam spectant. S. Ignat. Ep. ad Smyrn. VIII. Ex vers. Cotel. Ed. Russel, ii. 50.

PROTEST against the assumption of the spiritual duties of this chaplaincy, without a licence, by the Rev. Thomas Kenworthy Brown, as unduly interfering with the office of the Rev. Richard Thomas Lowe, licensed by the Lord Bishop of London to the spiritual cure and charge of all members of the United Church of England and Ireland in Madeira.

1. Because such assumption is contrary to the Apostolical rule, not to "build upon another man's founda

tion," (Rom. xv. 20,) “and not to boast in another man's
line of things made ready to our hand," (2 Cor. x. 16;)
and is opposed to the Apostolical position, (Rom. x. 15,)
that the preachers of the Gospel must be "sent."

2. Because without "sending," i.e., mission or special
executive authority from the Bishop, such interference
with the spiritual office of another, however favoured by
the civil government, is by the laws and constitutions of
the Church, which are founded upon Scripture, openly
schismatical and sinful.

3. Because no priest or deacon of the United Church
of England and Ireland may presume to exceed the
authority conferred on them respectively at their ordina-
tion; the priest being only empowered "to preach the
Word of God, and to minister the Holy Sacraments in
the congregation where he shall be lawfully appointed,”
("called and sent," Art xxiii.) "thereunto," Ord. of
Priests;) and the deacon receiving merely authority "to
read and preach the Gospel, if he be thereto licensed
by the Bishop himself." (Ord. of Deacons.) See Ap-
pendix, A.

4. Because such assumption is in violation of the
solemn promise and engagement made by every priest of
the Church of England at his ordination, "always so to
minister the doctrine and Sacraments, and the discipline
of Christ, as the Lord hath commanded, and as this
Church and realm hath received the same :”—it being a
well known law, and an integral part of the constitution
of the Church and realm of England, that "it is not
lawful for any man to take upon him the office of publick
preaching or ministering the Sacraments in the congre-
gation, except he be lawfully called, and sent to execute
the same." (Art. xxiii.):-sending or mission, being one

of the peculiar functions, and belonging to the special office of the Bishop.-(See Consecr. of Bishops," Will you be faithful in ordaining, sending, or laying hands upon others?")

5. Because by the 36th of the Canons of the Church of England, which are especially binding on the clergy, it is expressly enacted, that " No person shall be ... suffered to preach, to catechize, or to be a

lecturer or reader of Divinity except he be licensed either by the Archbishop, or by the Bishop of the diocese where he is to be placed," &c.: and because, secondly, by the 37th Canon, "None licensed as is aforesaid, to preach, read, lecture, or catechize, coming to reside in any diocese, shall be permitted there to preach, read, lecture, catechize, or minister the Sacraments, or to execute any other Ecclesiastical function, by what authority soever he be thereunto admitted, unless he first consent and subscribe to the three articles before mentioned, in the presence of the Bishop of the diocese wherein he is to preach, read, lecture, catechize, or administer the Sacraments, as aforesaid:"-and because, thirdly, by the 48th Canon, headed ، None to be curates but allowed by the Bishop," it is enacted, that "No curate or minister shall be permitted to serve in any place, without examination and admission of the Bishop of the diocese, or ordinary of the place, having Episcopal jurisdiction, in writing under his hand and seal :"-and because, fourthly, by the 49th Canon, it is enacted, that "No person whatsoever, not examined and approved by the Bishop of the Diocese, or not licensed, as is aforesaid for a sufficient or convenient preacher, shall take upon him to expound in his own cure, or