Onderdonk, B. T. Address of the Rt. Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, D. D., Bishop, to the Fifty-Ninth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York, September 28, A. D. 1843. New York: Church Depository, 1843. First Edition. [11426]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/4 x 5 inches, title page with edge chips at long side, 40 clean pp. Good. Pamphlet.
The annual report of the bishop in which he outlines his activities for the past year. This with a 9-page aside justifying his pattern of ordaining men with wide varieties of views which he deems non-essential, so long as they hold to the fundamentals of the Catholic faith in the tradition of the Church of England. He specifically mentions Calvinism and Arminianism as non-essentials.
"Tendencies toward extremes in what may be denominated the Catholic, the Calvinistic, and the Arminian views our our standards, have always existed without rending our unity or disturbing our harmony." - p. 26.
