The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-21 00:00:00

Fourteenth, towards the Huguenots, to dragoon protestant.
is England as they were dragooned is France, then what
was the consequence T The several parties netted, sad I
think it one of the flout and best things to be found
In our modern history, that the parties could unite
under such circumstances in the religion and constitution
of their c ninny. For they saved both by it. By no other
human mesas than that coalition could they have saved it
under Providencia, and that union was the means of pre-
serving for era all those blessings, spiritual and temporal,
which we now enjoy. (Cheers.) I must not be understood
tab. an apologist for any of those things which have been
alluded to as bevies given eneouragement to ibe advances of
Popery—(loud chests); on the contrary, I have never lost an
opportunity, in pubic or private, of oenvurieg them.
(Cheers.) At the same tine it would be most uneandid is
me to attribute to their observance throe sinister views which
we sometimes hear propounded of those persons who hare
been attending more closely than heretofore to the forms of
the church, and who *onetimes have taken a wrong notion
of oar church, which, whilst it does not discourage cere-
monies, is still sparing in the use of themes compared with
the Rewash church. (Mar, hear.) It was ens of the great
blessings which we obtained by the reformation that we
were deli d from that miserable complication of
corenscates which obstructed and confoondel the truth
of oar religion, and which occupies the minds of people
with beggarly element., instead of givimg. them the
leered truths of the Gaped. Still, she increased at-
tention to forms might hays proceeded from various
causes, aid some we will suppose blameable, highly
blameable, if they proceed from nothing but vanity, and a
love of singularity. (Cheers.) The subject is a painful one,
and which nothing but a sense of duty, sine you have (Mann
me to occupy this chair, would have compelled me to speak
of at all. Ido not wish to disguise the fact—l will at
once declare to you that there have been in my own
diocese no lea than live clergymen who, in &Sines
of solemn vows made at the altar, in defiance of their
oaths, and of everything that eau bind a man, in a short
time (four of them at least) after their ordination have gone
over to the Church of Rome. 8o far se the individuals are
concerned, mf. clings towards them are those of great pity ;
but as far as the church is concerned, I declare I think that
we have not sustained any loss at all. (Cheers.) Let, how-
ever, their example be a warning beaoon to others ; let them
not suffer their imaginations to be carried away by pomp'
and ceremonies. With a number of people it is a beset-
ting sin, and they ought to guard against it as they would
against any other besetting sin of our infirm nature.
(Cheers.) All I beg is, that they may be spared to reform
what is amiss, and many of them, I am persuaded, will
do so. (Haar.) Many of them have been foremost in
showing a strong feeling upon this occasion, and joining
in the general expression of the population of this country.
If there are others who will go on maintaining popish
ceremonies (I am almost afraid of being accused, in using
the word popish, of wishing to cast reflections on Roman
catholic ceremonies or their peculiar tenets) instead of
advancing the interests of our own apostolical church,
and are for ever referring to what was dons in the
middle ages, why I certainly think that their whole system of
operation is in the highest degree dangerous. (Loud cheers.)
' But we now are more upon our rased. People must no
longer say, as they have ever said since I can recollect, that
Popery has really become perfectly harraleu, that it is power-
. less that the day is gone by when anything is to be ap-
prehended
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will do great coed. (Rear.) It has happened, in all periods
of oar church. that the things intended for her destruction
t have in a wonderful way turned out for her benefit—(cheers)
t —and we will therefore rely upon the same superiotanding
• Providence to secure the suns results from what is now
taking place. (Cheers.) I beg pardon for having so long
• detained you, but I should not have done so if I bad not
thought that f I had said less my views might have been
I misrepresented and misconstrued. (Cheers.)