"Juris Consultus"; [Chapin, Alonzo Bowen]. New-Englandism not the Religion of the Bible: being an Examination of Bishop Brownell's Fourth Charge to his Clergy, in the New Englander for January, 1844. Hartford: Henry S. Parsons, 1844. First Edition. [10715]
Printed blue wrappers, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 60 pp. Seminary library ink stamps, some edge-chipping, foxing, marginal stains. Signed "Jos. W. Ingraham" on front. Fair. Pamphlet.
This is a defense of Bishop Thomas Church Brownell's (1779-1865) The Pentecostal Pattern: The Fourth Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of New Jersey (1842). His Fourth Charge had been attacked by an anonymous critic and printed in The New Englander, January, 1844. This pamphlet takes up the issues of an apostolic ministry, the right of private judgment, the state of the Episcopal Church compared with other Protestant denominations, and the design and mission of the church, baptism and the "New Light Theology."
Attributed to Rev. Alonzo Bowen Chapin (1808-1858), Protestant Episcopal priest and author. Chapin descended from New England Puritans but upon study found himself in agreement with the Episcopalians on church government and as being a branch of the Catholic church. His poor constitution allowed for study and writing, but was not suitable for parish work. He sometimes required an assistant to carry out parish duties. He was for eight years editor of Chronicles of the Church, contributed to various periodicals, wrote An English Spelling Book (1841), View of the Organization and Order of the Primitive Church (1842), and a local history, Glastonbury for Two Hundred Years (1853). His theological views were published in A Churchman's Reasons for Not Joining in Other Worship (1844) and Puritanism Not Genuine Protestantism (1847). While Chapin considered the Episcopal Church to be genuinely Protestant, he thought it to still be a branch of the Catholic Church, while other Protestants were not. Even so, he rejected the ritualism of Rome and "he viewed the modern Church of Rome with mingled pity and abhorrence." - DAB.
