“The Church of England so far from submitting either the rule, or her decisions according to the rule, to the judgment of her individual members, will not submit them even to the judgment of particular Churches, or to any tribunal less than that to which all particular churches are subject, that is, a general council, of which either the members shall truly represent the Church Catholic, or the decrees be universally received. * *
“We therefore no more submit the doctrinal decisions of the Church to the judgment of individual minds, than the canon of Scripture itself. We do acknowledge an authority higher than either the Church of England, or of Rome in particular. What hinders an appeal to that tribunal, Dr. Wiseman knows as well as we. But if such a council, truly general, freely assembled, should meet to-morrow, the rule of its decisions would be, ‘non sua posteris tradere, sed a majoribus accepta servare.’”—Pp. 25, 26, note.
[128] See Appendix H.
[131] Second Letter, p. 80.