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1.9 Con

tIPTISM

(From the Quarter Review for May.)

Though we decline enter

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Tractarian innovations, because it seems to us to be a stron
symptom of that indirect approa-

ation to Romanisro which

tvnuiC i ructarian system—we
mean the prominent and emphatic lecerence with which they
use the term Catholic, contrasted with the low, disparaging,
and even repudiating tone in which everything Prolfttant is

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All Christians using the Apostles' Creed acknowledge
themselves to be members of one holy Catholic or Universal
Church ; and so " all who profess and call themselves Chris-
tians" are, in this view of the matter, and according to the
interpretation of our Liturgy, Catholics. But the Roman
Church, which acknowled,ea nn §ta6.tinn —r

church than itself

the rest o!

hristianity as heretics, arrogates to

Itseir the exclusive tine of catholic. The premises are false,
but the conclusion is logical ; and they who believe they are
the only Church may very naturally pride themselves in the
title of Catholic. On the other baud, the Iteformpii

have never pretended to be exclusively Catholic ; and while
they denied the Church of Rome to he thpu

admitted it to be a Catholic Church : they therefore were
not very zealous in stickling for a name, which being, in
their view, common to all, could be no distinction to any ;
and • they, protesting against the errors and arrogance of
Rome, set no peculiar value on a title which they were to
share with Popery. The result of all this was that, through-
out Europe, the Roman and Reformed Churches were popu-
larly contra-distinguished as the Catholic and Protestant
Churches; and even in England—though, when more strict-
ness was called for, we talked of the "Roman Catholics "
we heard, in common parlance, of nothing but the " Catho-
lics"—" Catholic Emancipation"—the " Catholic question"
—" the Catholic religion," and so forth. It was in this
state of things that those pious persons, to whom we have
already alluded, thought it expedient to remind the Church
of England of her own claims to the title of Catholic, and
began to call her the Catholic Church in a manner more eat-
phatical and peculiar, and more in the style of the Romish
pretensions, than the Anglican Church had ever before
heard of. Our old divines, indeed, in their controversies
with the Romish theologians, who insisted on their own
Catholicism as a proof of our heresy, retorted upon them
that we were " as Catholic and even more Catholic than
they,"* and always insisted that we were a Cat holic Church
in doctrine, though our proper denomination was the Angli-
can Church. This innovation—or, rather, this equivocal
application of an old term—though, on maturer consi-
deration, it appears to have been at first unnecessary,
and eventually mischievous—met, as we all know, a pretty
general acquiescence, and was adopted by parties in the
Church of England who agreed in that alone. Those who
originally broached it, did so, we have now reason to suspect,
with the view of facilitating our return to the doubtful tra-
ditions and ollae' usages of early times (which, if rich in

piety, were pitiably over-tinctured with superstition), and of
so far, at least, approximating to what Rome calls Catholic-
ism. On the other hand, the most zealous antaconists of
Rome were very ready to strip her of whatever authority or
reverence the exclusive title of " Cat holic" might be supposed
to confer. So that the most opposite opinions seemed to
concur on this new nomenclature, and we ourselves on more
than one occasion, as our readers may have observed, did not
hesitate to employ this now popular denomination ; but we
did so, certainly, with no view either of approximating to-
wards or of further receding from Rome. We need not here
enter into any critical or theological examination of the vari-
ous senses which ingenious men have given to this term—
which, be it observed, is a merely secular word, not occur-
ring anywhere in the Holy Scriptures. Suffice it to say that
the Church of England uses it as it was used in the earliest

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fathers, and seems, indeed, its most common sense; sec
Bishop Pearson's notes. It is in this sense that Bishop
, should Beveridge entitled his discourse of the Thirty-nine Articles

Anglicana—

'cclegia Catholica; or, the Doctrine
of the Church of England consonant to Scripture, Reason,
and the Fathers." 'fake, in addition to the very terms of
this title, one or two out of a hundred itibtanceu. lie tran-

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