THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. ADDRESSED TO THE REV. CAVE JONES; AND RECOMMENDED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY 10, 1812.
New-York: February 10, 1812. 22, [2] pp. Stitched, untrimmed. Publishers' announcements on back page. Signed in type at page 21 "Ignatius." Scattered foxing and spotting, minor dusting and wear of outer leaves. Good+.
[offered with] [Hobart, John Henry] REMARKS ON THE HON. JOHN JAY'S LETTER, TO THE REV. CAVE JONES; IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND. NEW-YORK, JANUARY 29, 1812. [New York] February, 1812. Stitched, untrimmed. Publishers' announcements on back page. Minor wear. Authorship is attributed to Rev. Hobart by Dix, HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH... New York: 1901, p.321, footnote 2. Very Good.
Details of the controversy between Cave Jones and New York's Trinity Parish, an Episcopal Church, were eagerly devoured by the public, with much airing of personal animosity among the involved clergymen. Underlying the dispute was the question of the Church's future course: Anglicanism's "high church" style, emphasizing tradition and priestly authority; or the "low church" style of American Protestantism, with little emphasis on ritual, sacraments, or clergy authority. In this pamphlet the author denounces Rev. Jones for dishonoring his "Mother" [the church]."You Sir, are a Presbyter of the Episcopal Church, to whose service you have solemnly devoted yourself... And what have you done? You have not only debased and degraded your own character... You have held her up to the public, as an object of abhorrence and detestation... You have insulted your aged and venerable Bishop, and in so gross a manner, as to have realized the fable of the Old Lion and the Ass."
Rev. John Hobart became an assistant minister of Trinity Church on September 8, 1800, at the age of twenty-four. A follower of the "high church," he was intolerant of dissenters. Cave Jones became an assistant minister of Trinity Church on January 12, 1801. He was more of a "low church" minister. The two clashed. After Benjamin Moore, Rector of Trinity Parish and Bishop of New York, became ill in 1811, Moore called for a convention to elect an Assistant Bishop and eyed Hobart for the job. But Jones issued a pamphlet on May 1, 1811, attacking Hobart's "tyranny and intolerance." Nevertheless, Hobart was elected. A pamphlet war ensued. Later in 1811 the Vestry and a clerical court-- headed by Bishop Moore-- removed Jones from office. Jones took the case to civil court on the ground that the clerical court did not have authority to fire him. Although the court upheld the dismissal, it ordered Trinity to pay Jones $7500. During the dispute, various parties published eighteen pamphlets. ["The Pamphlet Wars," September 04, 2012; Trinity Church Wall Street, accessed at Trinity Wall Street website; "The Cave Jones Controversy," Bridgeman and Morehouse: A HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK... CHAPTER XIX. Putnam: 1901, pp. 209-227.]
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