Is the Vicar of Brompton a Tractarian?: A Question for the Parishioners

By Arthur Ellis

In his pamphlet, Is the Vicar of Brompton a Tractarian? A Question for the Parishioners, Arthur Ellis proposed the question regarding Reverend William Josiah Irons. Published in 1855 the booklet contains four letters passed between Dr. Irons and him soon after the public meeting relative to the Papal Aggression in 1850. In the Correspondence between Dr. Irons and Ellis, it can be witnessed that he addressed him under the belief that he was with the "Tractarian" party. In the end, he leaves the question to the judgment of those who may read this pamphlet. Tractarianism, also known as The Oxford Movement, was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which ultimately evolved into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its series of publications, the Tracts for the Times, from 1833 to 1841.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sharp Ink
• Release date: May 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9788028231064

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Arthur Ellis

Is the Vicar of Brompton a Tractarian?

A Question for the Parishioners

Sharp Ink Publishing

2022

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ISBN 978-80-282-3106-4

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PREFATORY REMARKS.

IS THE VICAR OF BROMPTON A TRACTARIAN?

BY

A LAYMAN.

You call me a Tractarian, I am not so in any sense.—See the Letter of Dr. Irons to the Editor of the Record.

He that is first in his own cause seemeth just, but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.—Proverbs 18 chap. 17 verse.

LONDON:

CHARLES WESTERTON,

WESTERTON’S LIBRARY,

20, ST. GEORGE’S PLACE, HYDE PARK CORNER;

SEELEY’S, FLEET STREET.

1855.

Price Sixpence.

If any profits arise from the sale of this little publication, they will be given to the funds of the Chelsea, Brompton, and Belgrave Dispensary.

PREFATORY REMARKS.

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In placing before my fellow parishioners this publication, I think it necessary most distinctly to disavow any personal hostility to the Vicar, as an individual.

I feel it the more incumbent on me to say this, as my object is not so much to prove the errors and unscriptural teaching of the Tractarians, as to make it plain (by his own words and actions) that Dr. Irons must be considered as altogether identified with the Tractarian party.

On a fitting occasion, however, I shall be ready (the Lord enabling me) to shew, that the principles and practices of those clergymen who have unhappily embraced Tractarian