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Tract 1: Thoughts on the Ministerial Commission
To the clergy. "I fear we have neglected the real ground on which our authority is built,--our Apostolical descent." 9 September, 1833.
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To the clergy. The Church ought not to be at the beck and call of the State. 9 September, 1833.
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Tract 3: Thoughts Respectfully Addressed to the Clergy on Alterations in the Liturgy
Deplores contemporary pleas to restore parts of the Anglican liturgy to an earlier style, to modernize some terminology, to make the worship service longer or shorter. Wary of the "taste for criticism." Considers in particular the rite for burial. 9 September, 1833.
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Tract 6: The Present Obligation of Primitive Practice; A Sin of the Church
Apostolic Succession ought to mean adhering to the doctrine of the early Church, not merely a chain of imposition of hands. The Eucharist ought to be made available every Lord's Day. 29 October, 1833.
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Tract 7: The Episcopal Church Apostolical
Episcopacy as a form of ecclesiastical polity is more than merely expedient. 29 October, 1833.
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Tract 8: The Gospel a Law of Liberty; Church Reform
The ecclesiastical system is only faintly traced in Scripture because "The Gospel is a Law of Liberty. We are treated as sons, not as servants; not subjected to a code of formal commands, but addressed as those who love God, and wish to please Him." All branches of the Church have sins to confess and reform. 31 October, 1833.
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Tract 10: Heads of a Week-Day Lecture, Delivered to a Country Congregation in --shire
On the bishops as successors of the Apostles. 4 November, 1833.
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Tract 11: The Visible Church, Letters 1 and 2
Why is it not enough to be spiritually minded and to hold orthodox doctrine? If there is a Church Invisible, what is the use of a Church Visible? 11 November, 1833.
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Tract 15: On the Apostolical Succession in the English Church
By W. Palmer; revised and completed by John Henry Newman. 13 December, 1833.
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Tract 19: On Arguing Concerning the Apostolical Succession
If proofs demanded for the necessity of apostolic succession are unconvincing to opponents, we must remember that our first responsibility is to act in accordance with our Christian faith. Debating with outsiders is far less important. 23 December, 1833.
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Tract 20: The Visible Church, Letter 3
At this point, Newman still shared his countrymen's horror at "Popery". The visible Church as scriptural, which can only weaken corrupt systems. 24 December, 1833.
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Tract 21: Mortification of the Flesh a Scripture Duty
On fasting. 1 January, 1834.
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The Church has fallen away from her first love. Repudiating others' errors is little good if there is no unity and love in the reformed Church. 25 April, 1834.
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Tract 33: Primitive Episcopacy
On missionary dioceses in the early Church, and how the physical size of a see often had to do with how many Christians were in the vicinity. 1 May, 1834.
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Tract 34: Rites and Customs of the Church
The writings of the Fathers can be trusted on matters of Christian worship which may be mentioned only in passing or not at all in Scripture. 1 May, 1834.
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