The Prayer Book Explained

Excerpt

To those who believe in One Holy Catholic Church wherein dwelleth the
Holy Spirit, it will always be difficult to distrust the Service Book
of any Branch of it.  The old claim made at Jerusalem with regard to
the vexed questions of the Church’s infancy, It seemed good to the
Holy Ghost, and to us (Acts xv. 28), rested not on the presence there
of the good and wise, on the prudence or self-sacrifice of those who
had hazarded their lives for the Name, but on the reality of the Lord’s
promised Presence.  Not because there were Apostles there, but because
those there were the Catholic and Apostolic Church, they asked and
received the guidance of the Holy Spirit.