Excerpt from Dr. Pusey and the Ancient Church In pp. 44-66 of his book he is meeting a charge brought by Archbishop Manning against the Church of England, that if it teaches that there is a Church Upon earth, it formally denies its indissoluble unity. Hereupon Dr. Pusey makes his statement of what constitutes the unity of the Church. Our highest union with one another is an organic union, with one another, through union with Him, Christ Himself. It is a unity derived from Christ, and binding all to Christ, descending from the Head to the Body, and uniting the Body to the Head (p. He illustrates this by beautiful passages from St. Athanasius, St. Cyril of Alexandria, and St. Hilary. There is, he says, from St. Paul, one Body and one Spirit; one Body, as held together by the one Holy Spirit (p. This unity, derived from our Blessed Lord as Head of the Church, is imparted primarily through the Sacraments (p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.