The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

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PUSEYISM AND POPFRY

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)011 ,t01,,A ue, ttlt oug your Coal
talOw the doctrines and practices taught, and perse,v,r,
ingly inculcated in the publications of the Oxford 'Fractistsr
as being identical with those contained in the extracts
from Bishop Sparrow's " Ratioriale" as given by a forme
correspondent, and to corroborate your remark in 155 t
Tuesday's paper, that there is but " a step het. ceo
,tot Poprry."

Posey hei CM...J..41y %NIA to ;:ring about a s...covil
ketorination" in order to destroy that evangelical spirit ‘s
has manifested itself in the Establishment of late sears.
(Ttacts for the Times, vol. i. Nos. 38 and 41). There-
fore the first Refoltnation and its originators arc abused.
" I am becoming every day a less and less loyal son ore,e
Reformation" (Frouda's Remains, vol. i., p. 336.). AS
to the Reformers, I think worse and worse of
Jewell was what you would call in these days an irre, tt
Dissenter. His •' Dr:fence of Its Apology" saigust::l tte
more than almi.st arty wok I have read" (Ihiti, vol.
p. 3.30). " How betiatiCully the Edinburgh Review ;',l
shown up Luther, Nlelanethon, and Co. What good
genius has possessed them to do our dirty work?" (10,
vol. i., p. 394.) The Reformation is, "of course, pain-
ful in as far as it indicates disunion, however unavoidable,
b-tvrecn two members of the same Christian
Olkeley's Sermon, Col. 2, 10, p. 8). Froude's treatownt
of Bishop Jewell is vindicated in a second part of his '•
mains 'now published, and it is asserted that the Reformers,
as a party, are not to be trusted on ecclesiastical or theo-
logical questions.

1 hey ascribe " mysterious powers" to the episcopal'',
ordained clergy. " They have powers mysterious and
awful, which no mere human being could of himself pr,e.
tend to possess" (Sewell's Christian Morals, p. 33)'
" Once more their powers are very great ; they are eyed
awful" ( 'bid, p. 27). Likewise " Pussy's Letter."
They believe in the doctrine of the real presence ie
the .Eucharist. " The real presence of Christ is there OD
the Eucharist) independently of our faith" (Pusey's Le'
ter, p. 128). " I should like to know why you flinch froo
saying that the power of making the body and blood of
Christ is vested in the successors of the Apostles" (Fronde,
vol. i., p. 326).
They attach the same importance to tradition as to the
Scriptures. " The unwritten word of God, if it can be
any how authenticated, must necessarily demand the same
reverence from us as the Scriptures did from the first
Christions" (Kcble's Visitation Sermon, p. 26).
They consider the expression " Lord's Table" to be se
polluted by Protestant use as to compel them to adopt the
word altar (Fronde, vol. i., p. 326, 395), which should
not be shaocd by the pulpit, being " more sacred than the
Holy of Holies was in the Jewish Temple" (Ibid, p. 372)'
They regard " the Sacraments and not preaching as the
sources of divine grace" ( Tracts, voi. i., pref. p. 4)•
" Preaching is rather an adjunct of the Church's divine
system than a leading feature of it" (Oakeley's S.:rinon es
Cul. 2, 10).

They desire that the sermon be preached from the altar'
steps, the priest pray with bis back towards the people, ad
the congregation turn invariably to the east ( Tract,
86, p. 26. Fronde, vol. i., p. 365 ).
They would easily unite with the Romish Church if sbe
would throw aside her anathemas, for the differences be'
tween us arc not fundamental (Perceval's Roman Saliva.
Introduction, p. xix). She is styled our mother, throne
whom we were born to Christ (Tracts, vol. iii., Intro&
p. 34). " Our spiritual parent, over whose errors in irer
earlier days we should dutifully mourn" (British Cr!n,
July 1836, p. 82). " God's favoured instrument
of good,
(Ibid, p. 79). Further, the Romish Churches are sei°
even now to be true Churches, and her errors excusable:
and that the Romanists generally ought not to be regarde°
as heretics (Palmer's Treatise on the Church, vol. 1!
p. 433).

. -
Teey describe the Revolution of 1688 as a sin (PuseY,
Sermon, on Nov, 5, p. 41). " A very great sin" (Oakeley
Sermon, p. 8).
Bloody Queen Mary's character is to be venerates,
Elizabeth's, in comparison, condemned (Sewell:a ChriP
tian Morals, p. 379).

" Dissent" ,is trumpeted forth "as a more fatal tyran?i
and a more unauthorised usurpation than Popery" (
pp. 52, 185). And " Dissenting communities, whekr
collectively or individually considered, form no part of ,
Church of Christ" ( Palmer, p. 399).
And, to the Episcopal Church, " every individual°
bound to unite himself as being exclusively and solely, tbe,
way of salvation, established by Divine authority anione
us" ( Palmer, p. 214).

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These extracts, I think, Sir, will sufficiently point VII
the principle* of the Oxford School, and fully demoroarsitt
the tendencies of such a system.
For your liberality in printing letters on the other side
of the questi„n, and your strongly. advocating the. Pri;
testant, and therefore, I believe, •true side of the
same
question, I cheerfully propose to- you a vote of 64;10°'
which, I have no doubt, opposers and friends will cordisllfi
second, and, with that seconding, the latter will forth":
co-operate in upholding and spreading cotrect and pate
views on this s..bject. Yours, &c.
Stroud, Jan. 7, 1841. A PROTESTANI'

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN..
SIR,—As it has been stated in your Pavel- that 01
" Puseyites never meddle with politics," allow ;no to avid
myself of your columns for the purpose of co%,,,incing
readers that politics form a very
imPortar'',-; feature in tbo
t 0
new, or rather the Popish system, riew Pl,aturing in Wort;
ilke the parent to which it owes its bir.h (for Dr. Pusef °1 . " Rome is our mother through, whom we were ball -,, Christ"). This system is, in `,'act, a politico-religious eel
politics being part and parcel of it ;
and let the Queen O
the Bishops look to 'it, or she may lose her Crown a
they their mitres ! In page 141, 3d vol., of " Traets_L",
the Times," there is the sketch of a religious ner'i
purely political, <I in honour of Bishop Ken," for refust
to acknowledge the new dynasty of William the Third;
rather than violate his allegiance to " the traitor, Jen,
the Second," "By thus doing"—the compilers of this 1,-;
ligious service, in lesson 6, say---" 143 (Ken) gave
Caesar the things that be Cresol's, and to God the faials
that be God's "!! In perfect agreement, Dr. Pusey.
his sth of November sermon, denounces the " giorieto
Revolution of 1688," he stiles it the " so-called &tid,
Revolution," and intimates that we are suffering for
national sin committed at that period of our history. e,
short, the Puseyites arc advocates (strenuous) for the de
trine of passive obedience and non-resistance.
1 am, Sir, yours, &c.
Che-Itenhain, Jan. 6, 1841. VERITAS*