Excerpt from A Harmony of Anglican Doctrine With the Doctrine of the Catholic and Apostolic Church of the East: Being the Longer Russian Catechism, With an Appendix, Consisting of Notes and Extracts From Scottish and Anglican Authorities

The plan of the present publication is to set before the reader a systematic outline of Divinity, capable of being used as a Harmony or joint Cxposition of doctrine at once Eastern and British. For this purpose the Longer Russian Catechism, otherwise entitled, A Full Catechism of the Catholic and Apostolic Church of the East, has been taken as a convenient basis; the text of which, so far as it ex presses a doctrine confessedly common to both Churches, needs no corroboration from Anglican sources, but is at once and of itself the Harmony desired. But wherever this is not the case, wherever, that is, any preposition occurs in the text of the Catechism, on which members either of the Eastern or of the British Churches might possibly suspect disagreement, or on which we are in point of fact divided among ourselves, in all such places references are added to Anglican Authorities which will be found subj oined in an Appendix, and which are intended to shew that, whatever some may think of present appearances, Anglican Divinity is not necessarily nor unequivocally, on any single point, irreconcileable with that of the Basterna. It is hoped that the read er will find no point passed over in silence, on which any well-informed member of either Communion would be likely to suspect disagreement. And so, either alone, or in conjunction with the Appendix, the Catechism may be read and used not merely as an Eastern or Russian document, but as equally our own, and as capable of being entitled simply, as indeed it has been sometimes entitled, without respect to rite or language, A Full Catechism of the Ortho dox Christian Faith.

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