How did I miss this video? Perhaps because of a lack of interest in what I see as the genesis of yet another "denomination" or "province" which is built on the shifting sands of man-made "traditions" and the semi-pelagian gospel of works which is no gospel at all.
If there be any doubt that the Reformed Episcopal Church has sold its birthright for a pot of stew, this video should silence all the naysayers. Take a long look at the Anglo-Catholic vestments of the cope, the mitre, the white rochet and red chimere. Also, notice that Leonard Riches is wearing a red cap called a zuchetto. These are not vestments worn by the English Reformers but by compromisers with the Tractarians, Anglo-Catholics, Laudians and various other high churchmen. The Reformed Episcopal Church has forgotten the Declaration of Principles and the Scriptures. Bishop Charles Cheney and the other founders of the REC are rolling over in their graves!
Be that as it may, God retains a remnant within the REC which has not compromised the doctrines of grace. How long they will survive under the lordship of bishops who have sold out the doctrines of grace for a gospel of merits and works remains to be seen.
This video only proves to me that I in fact did the right thing by resigning my ordination as a deacon with the REC back in 2003 or so. Any denomination which thinks that the Gospel is somehow compatible with the false gospel of good works as a means of meriting God's forgiveness through the false sacrament of penance is not a true representative of the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Any denomination or province which advocates the five false sacraments condemned in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion is indeed preaching a false gospel (see Article Twenty-Five). As my rector likes to say, natural religion is appealing to those who seek worldly approval.
May God have mercy!
[Postscript: The red chimere is never worn by any of the English Reformers who were martyred. I guess that makes them "Puritans" by papist standards.]
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