"THE END OF CONTROVERSY,". CONTROVERTED. A REFUTATION OF Milner's "End of Controversy," IN A SERIES OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE MOST REVEREND FRANCIS PATRICK KENRICK, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore. BY JOHN H. HOPKINS, D.D., LL. D., Bishop of Vermont. VOL. II. THIRD EDITION. NEW YORK: No. 381 BROADWAY. 1856. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by PUDNEY & RUSSELL, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. PUDNEY & RUSSELL, Printers, 79 John-Street, N. Y. TABLE OF CONTENTS. The validity of the Anglican Succession—The Unchurching dogma falsely assumed by Milner-Episcopacy considered by the Reformers and other standard divines of the Church of England as necessary, not to the being but the well-being of the Church—The necessity of circum stances- Analogy of the Ten Tribes-Milner's charge that the Church of England denies the validity of lay-baptism-Proved to be false—The consecration of Archbishop Parker-Cranmer's private opinion of no consequence—The Nagg's Head fable—The Episcopal character of Bishop Barlow doubted—The doubt refuted— The whole of the four consecrators of Archbishop Parker vali secrated— The orig record—The validity and regularity of this consecration acknowledged by Fleury, Courayer, and Lingard, all Romanists—Milner's falsehoods --The mission of the English bishops denied-Milner claims that mis- sion is voided by idolatry-Corruption does not abolish lawful author- ity—The analogy of the bride-Duty of faithful sons towards a faith- The story of Pope Joan—Blondel and Bayle-Examination of the |