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There are some who really desire its *destruction,
and run away with the idea that it serves to maintain
only the appearance of religion without its reality. A
more monstrous calumny never was forged. Multi-
tudes of holy, benevolent, exemplary Christians are con-
tinually comforted and edified by its solemn services.
But even supposing this view of the case to be true,
it must still be admitted that the Church of England
is a great promoter of that decency and order to
which St. Paul showed himself both in precept and
in practice, a great friend. We read in the his-
tories of the Kings of Israel that the Almighty
rewarded with temporal prosperity those who yielded
only the outward homage due to his holy name.
And the " reign of terror" in a neighbouring country
is an awful instance of the divine judgment on those who
cast off the appearance of religion. Those who under-
mine or undervalue the Church Establishment ought to
be reminded of the first stages of the French revo-
lution.

There are others who cry " the Church is in dan-
" he' they Iv the lad ,ns of
'egard
Ihan
don-

lid-
'bti°
of
orcester, for example, were in danger of being re-
quired to state to a Church Reform Commission on
what authority his Lordship refuses Ordination to can-
didates of more than thirty years'of age,—ecclesiastical
discipline would not fare the worse, and the national
Church might fare the better. If the Church be in
danger, it is from neglecting that reformation which
might constitute its safety.
Is the " Church in danger?" Then the danger is—
a reunion with the Church of Rome. Roman Catholic
statistics prognosticate a revival of the papal church—
a church full of sympathy and attaction towards
churches which desire to avail themselves of her power-
ful alliance.

It is notorious that a large and increasing party
among the clergy, desiring, it would seem, more popu-
larity, power, and influence than is likely to be con-
ceded to them by Acts of Parliament, have actually
begun that incipient movement which promises to ter-
minate in a reunion with and reinforcement by " the
Church of all times and all lands—whose maternal arms
(to use the kind phrase of the Catholic Magazine)
are ever open to receive back repentant children ; and
as when the prodigal son returned to his father's house
even so will the whole of Christendom
rejoice greatly when so bright a body of learned and
pious men as the authors of the Tracts for the
Times,' shall have made the one step necessary to place
them again within the sanctuary where alone they can
be safe from the moving sands beneath which they
dread being overwhelmed
most confidence that that we predict the accession to
our racks of the entire mass." Such is the language
of Roman Catholics with reference to the present
aspect of the Church of England. Such is the esteem
(which is no doubt reciprocal) in which they hold the
teachers of the doctrines of Oxford divinity. Such
mutual esteem bodes little good to the Protestant cause.
We have heed long at peace with the powers of
Europe ; and, like those Israelites who mingled among
the heathen and learned their works, some individuals
among the higher classes of society have been much
on the Continent, and have been pleased with the
architecture, painting, and music of the Roman Ca•
tholics, or with their urbanity of manners. The
aristocracy are fond of sumptuousness in their ordi-
nary life. And, it would seem, they are fond of a sump-
tuous religion. Be this as it may, no one can deny that
there is among us, somehow or other, a leaning towards
the Roman Catholics. The other day, in the course of
an ecclesiastical trial, Sir 11. Jcnner, in his judicial ca-
pacity, asked another eminent ecclesiastical lawyer—
" Is a Roman Catholic priest a lawful minister accord-
ing to the rubric ?" To which question Dr. Phillimore
officially replied, I think he is an ordained Minister
according to the rubric in the eye of the world, and in
the eye of the luta." Is it so'? Then this law ought
s. repo:ailed- If it, Bo Archea Court law, or canon
law, or Oxford tract law, it certainly is not Thirty-nine
Article law.

Is the Church in danger ? Then it is in danger from
its own approximation to the Roman Catholic religion.
And to whom or what does this approximation owe its
origin ? Undoubtedl!‘ to those errors and ambiguities,
favouring the Roman superstitions, which were fostered
by ;Queen Elizabeth from mere worldly policy, and
which (for the same reason) have been connived at by
a long succession of bishops whose duty it is (other-
wise why, are they called overseers, or why do they
sit in the House of Lords ?) so to legislate, as to pro.
cure their removal. These sparks of superstition have
been of late years blown into a flame by the Oxford
divines, the leaders (to a certain degree) of the
national clergy, who with an'unaccustomed zeal, adroit-
ness, courage, and perseverance, have carried out and
acted upon the errors in our rituals, till, according to
their statement, the difference between the two churches
is scarcely perceptible. ',There are certain dogmas in
our prayer book which ascribe to the bishop and the
priest, much of that power which belongs only to the
divine Saviour. These dogmas, the Oxford divines, ar-
gue, did not originate with the Romanists, but were of
old received by oursztves as well as by them, from the
t'.!utliolic. What then ? This pro;:oitioli
wood !or t!ctiiiip.l—wile,i iii k!titt prove
it i,

Is the Church in danger Theo i.l dangt, iCuLII
the actual prevalence of Roman Catholic principles,
which teach us, in fact, that there are two books—" the
Acts of the Apostles," and " the Acts of the Bishops ;"
and that these two books (which resemble each other
es much as light resembles darkness) are of equal
authority.
Is the Church in danger? Then it is in danger
from an effectual (though crafty) renunciation of its
main principle, the sufficiency of Scripture as a rule of
faith, the cardinal point of difference between a Pro-
testant and a Popish Church.
If I may be allowed to speak rather figuratively—
there are two impostors from whom you are to appre-
hend " danger.' One is a Papist in his natural colours.
The other is a Papist disguised like a Protestant. The
former comes to you with a shaven crown, and a large
rosary of beads, saying to you "give me some of your
gold, and I will give you some of my pardons and abso•
lutions." The latter knows very well that if he were to
use this language to you,
,you would send him about his
b isiness, with an inquiry how he comes to thrust upon
you his Papistical fancies ? Therefore, that he may
the better practise on your confiding temper, and abuse
3 our liberality, he assumes a little more plausibility.
He doss not shave his head, but wears his own hair.
He has nothing at all to do with beads. And as for
purgatory and penances, to convince you of his Protes-
tantism, he deprecates such doctrines—more or less.
The former character honestly and plainly declares
to you that you have no right whatever to read the
Bible otherwise than as his holy mother the Church has
thought fit to interpret it. The latter (pray observe)
MAINTAINS THE SELF-SAME PRINCIPLE. But in order
that he may throw dust in your eyes, dear fellow sub-
jects, and reconcile Popish principles with Protestant
power, he does not hesitate to subscribe and acknowledge
the authority of the sixth article, in which the exhor-
bitant claims of that holy mother are most clearly and
decidedly rejected. Church tradition, according to the
Oxford divines, is to be employed as parallel to Scrip-
ture, not as derived from it, and consequently as fixing
the interpretation of certain texts. And the assertion
that tradition is of equal authority with Scripture, they
attempt to reconcile with the doctrine of the sixth ar-
ticle, which declares that whatever cannot be proved by
Scripture is of no authority at all.
Ah, fellow-countrymen! do :you sappose that when
you have burned Guy Fawkes, and have triumphed over
him with bells and bonfires, you have shaken off the
influence of men who would (if they could) betray your
immortal souls for their own advantage—or that your
rhymes about the sth of Nevember and the Gunpowder
Plot, will act as carminatives against the double distilled
hypocrisy with which the two-faced tutors of the young
clergy are labouring to infect your Church ? Your meeting
together to inveigh against the Roman Catholics provokes
Dissenters to meet together to inveigh against your-
selJes. They have quite as much right to call you
" Aholah" or " Aholibah," as you have to call the Pope
" Jezebel," or " the Man of Sin," a mode of reviling
which betrays a very slight acqucintance with pro-
phecy. What is the use of vapouring against an enemy
abroad, while you suffer the encroachments and usurpa-
tions of a traitor at home? Do you really think,
fellow subjects, that those who stand blustering
against Popery on Protestant platforms are the men to

* I have preferred the neuter to the feminine pronoun
because the application of the terms " she" and " her to
different Churches, seems to have encouraged people to
c,nfound them with Jerusalem which is above which is
he ONLY mother of us a11.....Ga1. iv.

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