The Sun. — 1839-11-01 (London, England)

EPISCOPAL MAGAZINE. This periodical preserves its character for rabid hatred of all sects and religions, except the religion of the Church of England, which Church it says, " is coeval with the lives of the Apostles, and is approaching the completion of two thousand years, during which long period, with more or less brilliancy, it has been a witness for the truth." Now we imagined that the Church of England took its rise about the period of the Reformation, and that it sprung out of that Church, which has been described as the mother of iniquity, and the whore of Babylon. It appears, however, that we are under error. The Anglican Church dates from the commencement of the Christian era. It is the most ancient of all Churches, and the vile, persecuting; soul-and-body-destroying Popish Catholic Church, is only a miserable excrescence from this standard of truth. Of the nine articles in this Number, five are directed against Popery, and some of them of so violent, disloyal a character, as to outstrip even the rabid speech of the Member for Canterbury. One would suppose from the violent hatred displayed towards Catholics, that these High Churchmen would not be satisfied with the repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Act, but would have restored to the Book of Prayer, the charitable invocation drawn up by the Convocation, soon after the Gunpowder Plot. The following is a clause of what the Convocation called, " a form of prayer and thanksgiving:"__  " Infatuate their counsels, and root out the Babylonish and antichrithan SECT, which say of Jerusalem. Down with it, down with it, even to the ground. And to that end strengthen the hands of our gracious King,  I 1 the Nobles and Magistrates of the land, with justice and judgment. to tact (di' those workers of iniquity (whose is rebellion, whose faith is faction ; whose pracmurdering ~ - .ouls and bodies), and to root them - "-nits of this kingdom, that they tot of the confines anti ' triumph in the ruin of rrypy neftr prevail against us anu ...„m and serious Thy 6urch,•aaf CO give us grace, by t, _.6 from repentance 1N Weft these and the like judgme,. s us. This, Lord, se' earnestly crave at Thy mercifu, hands, together with the eontinuance of Thy powerful protection over our dread Sovereign, the whole Church, land these realms, and the speedy confusion of our insplacable enemies," &c. After quoting this exterminating prayer, the writer naturally follows it up with this episode, on the Court of our Most Gracious Queen : " Our present most gracious and youthful Sovereign is surrounded, in her bed-chamber, her council board, and during her times of relaxation and pleasure, by these workers of iniquity—whose religion is rebellion—whose faith is faction, and whose practice is murdering souls and bodies.' What then can this nation expect from the Queen's backsliding from the faith of her ancestor, whom God so wonderfully preserved from the Popish plot, but the outpouring of the vials of His wrath upon her people, and the murdering of their souls and bodies by that Babylonisb and antichristian sect' who abound bath in the court and in the camp, and the rehellion and faction of the people."