IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 7 // // :/. A^ ^ FN, BUCJK9. TORONTO: FUBLISHKD BY GEORGE BROWN, BANNER OFFIGfiv MDCCCXI^IV. He s V PREFACE. This Pamphlet, which is now given to the Canadian Public, was published in London in 1842. The writer is a venerable and pious Minister of the Kncrlish Church. He could not have rendered n»ore essential .service to the world, and especially to the members of the Church of England, than the issue of this excellent and unanswerable little work. The spread of Puseyite and High Church views in the Province, by the Charges of Bishops, by newspapers, and by Pulpit ministrations, renders it a matter of absolute necessity that thei- absurd and unscrip- tural nature should be fully exposed, and the Publisher conceived that no better means of doing so could be adopted tlian to re-publish the Rev. Mr. Marks' pamphlet. He sincerely hopes that it may be productive of much good. Toronto, 1844. a2 'n Gc- I ClIRlS 1 as int obsen sensib laugh* the n moven Soitifr a vast ailultei gold i.« are in f;ood. 8torm its inJ atmosf and th bnrst i man is it cone eveninj elemen Jind thi of Hin final ri convuli every kingdoi ness, av the beli so lonti arrives, overtak I)ANGf::R AND DUTY. ?i Christian Readkii : n« J}^ ?'^"'' ""* ^^'^ l'^'**' ^^^ Pf'culiaily solemn and interef^tintr, as indicating great chanj^es and convulsions. Every man of Pn!S ^T^'!^*'''?■ ^'''^''' ^^ l^rotestant. Infidel or Christian, in \urJh\ ^'^ '•' '■" "^«^^'"«n^ S«inK on in the world, which ULghs to scorn every command to hault, every attempt to hring the machine to a stand-still. In this mighty and complex oOing on ; but it IS, at the same time, very manifest, that evil to a vast amount, is also advancing. xMeanwhile the good is so adulterated by the tollies and faults of men, that our best iine gold IS sadly amalgamated with base metals; while the evils that are in progress are evils, in most instances untempered with any good, lo me, the whole moral elements seem in agitation A T?nZ ^? 7'f P ^Y -^^'^^^ ^"^' ^^ «"^^ ^« P»r^^ ^^^^ to punish Lrmi«5h^ ' ^^K ^^'''! '""T'ly^ '' gathering up, and, like an atmosphere overcharged with electric matter, it is moving h Mier and thither in strange portentous shapes and characters, n>adv to burst in all the iury of a tempest ; such as shall be felt wherever inan is lound. And am I an alarmist ? ^•o, assuredly not, as It concerns the result. Many of the linest and most refreshing evenings that have cheered the earth have followed a day oi elemental convulsion, wherein the rain and the hail, the lighif nic and thunder, have contended together and proclaimed the majesty ol Him whom winds and storms obey. And such will be tho hnai result of all these coming visitations, these trials and convulsions, that await the earth. Every noxious vapour, and every moral contagious poison shall be dispelled ; and the kingdom ot the Lord Jesus shall come ; and truth, and righteous- ness avid j-eace shall hll the earth as the waters fill the sea This the believer knows will be the end. But ere this consummation, so Jong ago prophesied, and .so long and so ardently waited for, arrives, there are scenes to be passed through, and visitations to overtaKe us, that may woii solemnize every heart, and send each A 3 of u? to his o\vi> post aivl w.^trh-lnwrr wjth earnest prayef for grace and slreu^^th to know mid to do >A'bat the Lord would have us to do. It may bo tliat the Most Hij:h is bringing; to a close the twelve huudicd and sixty year.-" of the church's proidiecyinR in sack- cloth, and that in his inlinitcly wise dispensation* lie will, in a few years, jiermit the adversaries of the truth to go forth, and accomplisli all thai is predicted in Revelations, vi. 7 — 10. in this conllict, come whenevc - it may, it is believed that the true church and servants of the Lord will have Intidelitij and Fopcnj as their bitter, unrtdenting adversaries, together with many auxiliaries from all classes ol formalists Hml worldly men. But PopFRY, that encmv of all righteousness, that ever-persccuting child of the d«;vil, will lake the lead " ia slaying the. wttiiessFS,'* and in triumpiiimf over their sutierings and suppression. By Popcrtf 1 mean, noi only Popery proper, as it exists at Home and ebewhere, under its own name and form, but J^pery as it ha« been lately revived at Oxford, and which is now passing through the kingdom under tlie name of Tmdarianism ox Fuseyism. \nd I also mean those Ultw /ugh-churck principles and doctrines held by many of the nationar clergy, who, while they cherish most of the feelings and doctrines of the Oxford school, will not acknowledge themselves to be Puscyites, or men of popish principles. These are the three armies of aUens that threaten to corrupt the whole world. These are the men, and theirs are the the measures, which I would point out as the enemies of our God and his Christ — as enemies to the truth as it is in Jesus — as those who ever have hated that liberty wherewith the l-ord Jesus makes his people free. These three columns of the alien army are somewhat different from each other, but the difference is more in their growth and maturity than in their nature. Hyper high- church principles, carried out, will soon lead into the ranks of Puseyism, and Puseyism, in its onward march, soon reaches the goal of Popery proper. And as they are essentially the same in principle and spirit, so are they in their practice of opposition to the simple and graciously free salvation of the Gospel of Christ Jesus, and to all who preach it, whether in the pulpits of the Established Church, or in those of the Wesleyan or Congrega- tional chapels ; whether in those of the Church of Scotland, or in those of any of the Protestant Churches abroad. In my apprehensions of a vapid and almost universal spreail of Popery and popish principles, I not only believe the coricurrent voice of prophecy leads to such a conclusion, but 1 consider the present state of things at home and abroad as plainly indicating irayef for •ulil have le twelve in Back* ivill, in a orth, and —10. In I tlu' true u\ Fopcrij th many icn. But Tsccuting citnessrs" >ion. By [lome and aH it has z through Fmeyism. doctrines y cherish [, will not jf popish hreatcn to irs are the es of our Jesus — af^ iOrd Jesup lien army cc is more ^ per high- ; ranks of Eiaches the le same in position to . of Christ )its of the Congrega- :otland, or I spreail of concurrent )nsider the indicating ihc fact. Abinad, almo^ping their old pagan idols to adore the images and -aints of Rome ! All at once these hosts of the " mystic Bahifhm'* ha.ve taken the field, and present themselves to our astonished gaze like men sprung out of the ground. Meanwhile, supplies .it money follow them in abundance, and they are cheered on bv the united pravers and jiraises of all the popish inhabitants of the world. Then, again, it is truly astonishing h«nv all political movements, of late years have, every where, di recti v or indirectiv, wrought with " Thr man. of sin,"' and furthered " the extensicMi oi his kingdom abroa«l. and especially in the British colonics, ah the political movements of the civilized world, intcmionallv or unintentionally, have thrown weight into his scale : and British Protestant senators and state ministers, and British popish senators, have played into his hands ; the former under the influence of a wretched, unhallowed exj)ediency, and the latter out of real love to Popery itself. No wonder that Rome e\}»resses her astonish- ment at the progress her system is making : lor she sees, and sees truly, that whatever other movements may have been retarded, her's have advanced unchecked, nay, that they have gained in speed and power every day. But the plans of Satan were, thus far, only partially set in motion. Englanle would bear it." And now, my C'hristian reader, had the leaders and principal writers and actors in this Popish Puseyislic heresy been actually ))resentatthe privy council board of hell itself, ready to hear and tovibey Satan's in.structions. A 4 I 8 1 really do aot see how they couW have come forth better taught to do mischief, than what they have proved themselves to be Mod they, I say, really formed a part of that Satanic general council which planned the movement now shaking the world, may we not Buppose the enemy of all truth and righteousness would have thus addressed them : •' My sons, I have a great work for you to do. I wish you to become ecclesiastical agitators— to unprotestantize the church— to recede more and more from the principles, if any such there be, of the English Reformation— to go forward, and not to hesitate, because the church is vexed with controversy, or because serious men are alarmed, and doubts are raised in the minds of the uncomplaining, or that the established order of things is interrupted, or that the father be set against the won, and the mother against the daughter ; remember, all this has been done in former times ; and I wish you now to do it in my cause.* Teach the sacramental efficacy of penance; put the church in the place of Christ, make it to usurj) his authority and attributes ;t advocate prayers for the dead ;X recommend the use of images ;§ advocate the doctrine of the intercession of the saints ;|| advocate the revival of monasteries ; lavish constant praises upon the Church of Rome ;1T reject and anathematize the principle of Protestantism as heresy ;** declare your intention of ' receding farther from the principles of the English Reformation ;'tt declare that ' Rome is your mother, through whom you were born to Christ ;XX affirm that the Pope has the precedence of all other bishops ;§§ advocate union with the Church of Rome;(||| declare tJia: the cutting short of the life of Edward the Sixth was a merciful interposition of Providence ;1T1I declare that tbe accession and reign of Queen Mary were great and positive advantages to the Church of * British Magazine, No. LIX, p. 45. t British Critic, July, 1841, p. 26. t Tracts for the Times, No. 72, ard throughout. 9 Tract 25. II Tracts No. 72, pp. 425, &c. «fcc., compared with p. 123. IT Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol's Charge ; Tracts No. 70, p. 7. ** Palmer's Reply to Golightly. a British Critfc, July, 1841, p. 45. , ?^ ^o.?"^®y« ^»«wer in Tract No. 77, p. 33 ; British Critic, July, 1841, p. 3. ^ Tract 71, p. 8. II U British Critic, July, 1841, p. 3. HIT Milford Malvoism, p. 58. tter taught ves to be. ic general :he world, iteousnesB fe a great igitators — e from the nation — to exed with iloubts are istablished Leal n8t the II this has it in my ; put the tiority and id the use iesaints;|j lises upon inciple of ' receding tt declare e born to all other III declare a merciful and reign Church of 23. . 70, p. 7. England ;*" speak of therrctpudev * as the lost of England'h rightful kings ;'t advocate what you call a 'most dire weapon of the church — excommunication ; whereby she cuts off the offender from the fountains of life in this world, and makes him over from lier own judgment, to that of Heaven, in the world to come.' iSurely, it is a duty of chri*>eir mark, a.nd received scmie gentle checks; but, nollii ng dauntc], they Inivc soon returned to the field ; and at this mouic'-' tluy bid dellance to any and to ail who may o|)]>ose them. Then, last but not least, we arc informed by one who resided sh Critic, " Millbvd Midvoism, p. jfl. t Poem by Lord .John Manners. i Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Connirles. !l Soe Clifford's excellent sermon, '* The Church's lasi Struggle.'* A o I 10 «mong them at Oxford,* that every advantage of tituation as public lecturers and college tutors is taken to imbue the htudentfe with these pestilential doctrines ; and that erreat bucccrs has fol- io wed these Jesuitical elForts ; so that in the conclusion of this gentleman's letter, he declares it a.s his opinion, that unlens this dangerous agitation be re.sirfted, the Romanising, or the downfall of our churrh will be the consequence. He liien fnii>hc • with these starthng words : " Year after > ear, out of this poi.sone^I tountam, there will be poured forth upon the country a torrent of insolent, assuming, fanatical, Jesuitical young clergy, full of hatred to the Reformers and the Reformation, and of predilection for the Church of Rome, who will bring themselves and the Church of England into odium, wherever they go. But m v object IF, to warn ail parents not to send their children here. Cambridge- )s open to them ; and I can onlv say, after a very careful survey of the state of Oxford, that if 1 had a son here mvself, I would remove him to the sister university immediately.'' ' Much, how- ever, as this gentleman's mind foreboded evil, "l do not think it had then any conception of the extent to which the mischief would spread m the short time that uas already elapsed. Even Dr. Pusev, in his letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, declares, " that he and his friends are perfectly astonished at the rapidity of the movement:* As I said with reference to Poperv proper, all things seem and have seemed to further its proj^ress. ' And so says Dr Pusey m reference to their Popery modified. « Every thing, good or evil, has contributed to it ; poetry, arts, architecture, morals, Christian or heathen, novels, music, painting, have either pre- pared for it, or, being subsequently absorbed into it, have swelled Its progress ; our renewed intercourse with foreign churclias, and jtili more, the evils aimed at our own, the suppression of ov.r bishoprics, the assaults of dissent, the coldness of adherents, the anger of enemies, the lukewarmness or hostility of the* state, strength, or weakness, loss or gain, every thing deep, every iWm^ real, everything boly, deeds of charity, kindner ;. severity, every temperament and habit of mind, even the most unlikely, the most remote, or the most adverse, liberalism, or sceptical tendencies, have ahke ministered to it." And then, the Doctor, in the hei2:lit el his wonder and admiration, tells us, " thai He alone can have set It tn motion, who alone has oU thiuprs at hts inrnmand, and makcth even/ thin^ work toprther to accomplish his vullr Thus is the great apostle of this foolish and vv'ick;-d system so besotted with the progress of his own work, as to mistake the assistance * Spo a Loitor adihv.'^spfl to tho Editor of ihe ]\lorninhc.- with s poifcioritNl i torrent of jy, full of •redileclion ?s and ihc t my object Cambridge ful survey f, I would uch, how- )t think it hief would Dr. Pusev, . " that he iity of the all things ► Hays Dr. ling, good e, morals, 'ither pre- ve ^" welled rclias, and on of our ^rcnt«, the the stale, very thing ity, every , the most mdcncios, Lhe height ? can have la'iid, and Thus is ") besotted tssistance raid, dated m and aarency of the SctiI fof the work of th* G«d of all graee ! ! Yes, Doctor Po«cy, ymi are gpeaking; truth when yon say, th»t almoet all things Kave wrought for the furtherance of your unliai- k>wed object ; but f*o far from the Lord of heaven and earth being the director of the movement for good, the sins and willing ignor- ance of the nation have caused this evil to fall upon u» ; and the righteous Lord hath permitted the " father of lies" to aid and abet j'our party, and to use and combine second <;auscs to the further- ance of this judgment ; and hence, as a proof of the divine anger. Popery proper, and Puseyisrn, and Ultra high-church principles arc becoming rampant at home and abroad. At home tne conta- gion has spread through the length and breadth of the land, and by far the greater part of the clergy of the Established Church are more or less contaminated with the plague I Many of them beyond all reasonable hope of a recovery, and many others to a degree that, at best, admits of only a trembling hope. Already Ao many of our churches in populous districts exhibit such a mass of tawdry, foolish, popish mummery, that a stranger entering them would immediately conclude he was in a popish place of worship. In direct defiance of the laws of our church, the com- mv.nion table is by name and construction transformed into an nltary where you may behold large wax candles blazing at noon day, and crosses, and .saints, and childish, Jewisli, popish toys in abundance, towards which the minister bows with all the superstitious reverence of a shaven monk or friar. But this is not the worst. Let the stranger, who comers to worship God according to the rites and doctrines of the Keformed Protestant Church of England, tarry a little while, and he beholds the professed minister of the Gospel mount the steps to the aitar, and there, according to his own declared belief, •• he ?nake$ the body and hlood of Christ,'* and in a real popish belief of the doctrine of transubstantiation, which our church utterly condemns, he pre- tends to feed the souls of the people with a portion of the Redeemer's person ! From the communion table, let the astonished stranger follow this popish Puseyite to the sermon, or evening lecture, and what will he hear ? Will it be the all-pervading and all-prevailing theme of the apostle Paul, *• Christ Jesus, and Him crucilied ?" No ; for that glorious subject is to be purpo.sely kept in the back ground, to be preached with reserve; and the Kacraments, and the outward visible signs, and the services of the church, and the performances of the priesty are to be substi- tuted for the Saviour, and what He has done, and suffered, and merited for sinners! 80 again, in the sacrament of baptism, these men assume to themselves .he most astonishing powers and privileges ; and by taking the most unfair advantage of two or 1 « i|! 12 three undefined expressions, torn from their context, arid Construed ■without regard to the more explanatory and general declarations of our services, they teach the most absurd and unscriptural tenets of Puseyism and semi-popery for the doctrines of the church. All these " wandering stars" do not, indeed, run into the same excess of folly and error; but the leaven has extended so far and so widely, that its blighting, darkening, corrupting effects have quite extinguished the pure light of the Gospel in many of our parish-churcii pulpit ministrations, and so obscured the light, the truth, and the way, in hundreds and thousands of others, that those who go to learn what they must do to be saved, are in the utmost danger of being led most fatally astray. Such things have we already lived to see ; and should this downward move- ment go on but a few years longer, as it has progressed through the last seven, then Ichabod will be written on our church doors ; for she will not only fail to answer her intended purpose of enlightening and evangelizing the nation, but she will bring popish abominations over it, and a darkness, a spiritual darkness, that may be felt. Oh, England, England ! already may it be said with truth, *' They which lead thee, cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isa. iii. 12. In speaking of Pxiseyistn and of Hyper high-church principles, it is often difficult to keep up a line of distinction ; yet there is a distinction. The Pmei/ites run the full length of the most outrageous Hyper high-churchmen ,- but it ought, in fairness, to be stated, that the old and leading Hyper high-churchmen held many of the doctrines of the Puseyites in abhorrence, especially those that plead for a union with' Rome. Let me then make myself iinder.'^tood, when I use the term •* Hyper high-churchmen," by giving a tew quotations from two or three di\-ines whose writings are considered standard w^orks on this subject. And first, Bishop Taylor, who wrote by royal command, in defence of the divine right of the doctrine of apostolical succession. After Haying and sapponing many things iji defence of his order, he roundly declnres " Episcopacy is not only a Dicine institution, but the ONLY order that derives immediately from Christ."* 2ndly. Dr. Hick, another great authoritv, says, " Bishops are appointed to succeed the apostles, and like them to stand in Christ's place, and exercise his kingly, ])riestly, and ])rophetical office over their flocks." .... «' Thov staiui in (lod's and Christ's stead over their flocks ; the clergy as well as the people are to be subject to them, as to the vii.T,(^.i;ui,NTs of our Lord." ■ Episcopacy asserted, p. 48, ed. Ox. lC4f>, 4to. 13 Construed rations of I tenets of irch. All the same ed so far ig effects many of the light, ;hers, that are in the ch things ird move- i through ch doors ; iirpose of all bring darkness, lay it be » err, and mnci'phsy there is a the most ess, to he eld many .liy those e myself nen," by s whose ct. And efence of 1. After :irder, he stitution, hops are stand in Dphetical od's and p people ir Lord." * 1 .??.«* And the Ruccefisore of the apOAtlcs, the hishop«, like spiritital 'prinm^ exercise the same coercive authority that they did, in inflicting spiritual censures upon their disobedient aubjects.*'* 3rdly. The learned Dodwell declares, " None but the bishop can unite us to the Father and Son. Whence it will further follow, that whosoever are disunited from the visible communion of the church on earth, and particularly from, that visible communion of tlie bishop, must consequently be disunited from the whole visible catholic church on earth ; and not only so, but from the invisible communion of the holy angels and saints in Heaven, and, which is yet more, from Christ and God himself."! 4thly. " A person not commissioned from the bishop may use the words of Baptism, and sprinkle or bathe with water^ on earth, but there is no promise from Christ, that such a man shall admit souls to the kingdom of heaven. A person not commis- sioned may break bread, and pour out wine, and pretend to give the Lord's Supper, but can afford no comfort to any to receive it at his hands, because there is no warrant from Christ to lead communicants to suppose that, while he does so here on earth, they w^ill be partakers in the Saviour's heavenly body and blood. And as far as ihe person himself, who takes upon himself without warrant to minister in holy things, he is all the while treading in the footsteps of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram whose awful punishment you read of in the Book of Numbers. Compare Numbers xvi. with Jude 2."| The foregoing extracts will explain what I mean by Hyper high-church doctrines and principles, and the reader will judge for himself how far they are popish or not. But it may be asked, are these the views and principles held and advocated by all our bishops .' No, I bless God they are not ; neither were they held or advocated by many who have passed out of time into eternity. 1 could produce some happy instances, both from the list of bishops departed and of bishops now living; but T will name only one, whose book on " The Kingdom of Christ" has appeared very opportunely to meet these high-church claims to divine right and apostleship of our bishops. His words are these, " Successors to the apostolic office, the Apostles have none. As witnesses of the resurrection, an dispensers o( niiracidous gifts, us * On the Dignity of the Episcopal Order, p. 191, &-c. London, 1707, 8vo. i One Altar and one Pilftsthood, lfiB3, pp. 387, 397. t Tracts for the Times, No. 35, pages 2, 3. tfupircflorachs of divine revefatwii they have no successor*. But an mtiU)€n\ aa mitrnforn, as goveiiiorH" of christian communitiw then; ,succes:>sor8 are the lo.- larly-adniitted members, the lawfully ordained miniHlers, the re^rular and recognized governors of i regularly subsisting church."* And surely this is all that the ca-^ requires, whether the honour of the church, or the edihcalion of the people- be considered. Here is dignity enough ior the bishops and abundant scope for useful labour within tTir iolds of their respective dioceses It is no matter of surprise thai men who never theoretically or experimentallv, knew the Gospel otthrist should fall into such snares and bJ caucrht in such a He'f-magnifying scheme as invests them v.-ith something very like. i>ivine powers. But it is matter of astonishment and sorrovV that many others are daily becoming entangled in this net of High- cnurcli apostolic succession, and divine exclusive right ♦* And what IS meant by this said apostolic succession, and what are its consequences r" This is a question which some may ask with alJ simplicity of desire to know the fact. I will then explain the matter, as staled by Di. Hook of Leeds, in his two Sermons on the Church and the Establishment. " There is not a bishop, pnest, or deacon among us, who cannot, if he please, trace his own spiritual descent from St. Peter or St. Paul " " The onhi ministrations to which the Lord has promiml his presence is to Those ot ihehidops who are successors of the first commissioned Apostles, and the other dergy ncfmg under thkik sanction, m^i hi/ THEIR AUTHORITY." Now, my reader, this is truly very awful HI Us consequences as concerns the millions who have composed the Non-Episcopal Church of Scotland, and all the continental i rotestant Iletormed Churches, if true and imunnverahh. But as a set-ott to Dr. Hook, let us see what another living doctor says ; I mean Doctor Whately, the present Archbishop 'of Dublin, in his recently published work, " The Kingdom of Christ," pp. M T " *^*'^' ^"^ "^^^ ''' '"ini'^ter in all Christendom who is able to trace up, with any approach to certainty, his own spiritual rt'^u^'^'^x. ^^' «a^»'amental virtue (for such it is, that is implied, whether the term be used or not, in the ininciple I have been speaking ot) dependent on the imposition of hands, with the ihie observance oi apostolical usages, by a bishop, himself duly con- secrated, alter having been in like manner baptized into the ciiurch, and ordamed deacon and priest, this sacramental virtue. li a single link ol the chain be faullv, must, on the above prin- ' cipos, be utterly nullified ever after, in res}. v.t of all the links _ _ ' — 1 ■'- "» ••11 iiiv, iJiiivr ror il .1 bishoj) has not been duly conse- ' Dr. Whately's Kingdom of Christ d'^lineated 15 crated, or had not heen, pieviously, rightly ordained, his ordi* ndtionci are null; and bo are the ministrations of those ordaittod by him; and their ordination of others; (supposing aiiy of the per*on.s ordaine|CMhrre, ,t should s.nd us to our closets ^n ura^^!^S cation to Hun who is the i^reat iiisiiop anu Shephenl of on ^^t i He would pr(.serve and cleanse evei I branch end section of Is church amon^ us from all such adversities. Ma)vnnn.nl^-?'f cnu'lties, as perpetrated by hloodv Queen Aldi.v and her notred prompters, and well we may. But Kuffland btKs heheld princes, Inshops. and pul^^es, hi c^h lords ami ?,v^t iVotesLr fn^^ ine,i who, while professing themselve. MOLstants as to then- creed, were Papists as to their practirr And these are the ^ery m.n and measures now publ ly J^^'i by tlie 1 usent^s, and lon.ed after by many a H^^ch n-cSi f Ml, EnKla.ah Kngland ! should it please (iod to visit herfo.' ' uie iniqmt.es, and ir, p,nn.t Puseyism and H gh elm/cl principles to gam that ascendancy they'are stri- n. Tin , ^ain, and towards which they are makin^such rapi ^u^e^ he Will our pnson walls a<.a,n send Jorlhlhe echo m" ff^^^^^^^^^^ ^Hneniat.ons from men, women, and children, a^ul^res and baiushment^ and death will a^ain proclaim wh. t P^e T's'lrfh essence under ev^ery name and modiiication : aiul on, land will again become a land of darkness and irreligion o the i"non and profane, even as it has heen in times^imst ItrmZT J>therwise tor th. pure and nndetiled religir'^ tl^ ^el o^ ; r.stand that of Puseyism and High-church are ecoSble^ i hey cannot reigir. and rule in the s.une place am inT W oi. -ir ^"^''^>^ ''^1" J">^ver of it. And it ma^-1)e ha he ^0H^^^,I1 scourge us hack to himself by the rod" of \v^ Zf anger in the shape of popish Pusey.stic persecution ■' We daily pray that the kingdom of iUul u.ay come and w*» pro ess to believe that this pra>..r will one day be an "vTred a^^^d ha all shall kiiovy the Lord from the least to th^g -ere.; ^^1 hat the experimental knowledge of the only tru ^Sd^J o Jesus Chnst wliorn il. ha^h seiU. shall iill thl e;mh N,,c -x^ our prayers, and such our professions ; and vet 1 iv a x ' lo few among us who seem to think, that this k,ngught loith ith mulDal all* of the vniiiilicted ist. Nay, -kingplaci' nd suppli- souls, that, on of His dy Qnccii t England snd great I circum- lomscjvc.-? practice, ly lauded urchman. theo for h-church I hard lo dos, then )ans and «Rs, and ' is in its md will ignorant mnot bn iospel of ncilable. . liOng n, while thai the his just and we I'cd, and test; s<) and of icli are no few )rd will 19 notoreannot rome, in all its amplitudf, its purity, and glory, unleptf It partakes of the peculiar form and ecclesiastical polity oi our own denomination. The bigoted episcopalian and the bigoted anti-episcopalian mav think so. ' Aye, and there may be a lurking, rtiough unacknowledged, disapprobation in the heart to this very kingdom of God being set up o\\ any other model th;in that ol his own peculiar one ! My Christian reader, he assured, that when our Ivord's j)raver is answered, and his kinijdoni is conic, and his church is set u'p in all the world, it will be invested with a purity Hi»d holiness infinitely more scriptural and love!" than any thing that has vet ajipeared on earth. Many a distinctive brancli ot Christ's church is now, in common with the Rstab'ished Church ot this land, built on the foundation of the npr)sfk:s ami }>rophets, .Icsus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. 'I'he founda- tions are, therefore, good, but where is there one among us all that can truly say the'supersiructure his party has reaieil, is com- posed alone'of "gold, silver, and precious stones, without any admixture of wood, hay. or stubble?" Alas! imperfection is Stamped on every human institution, and written on every work of man. Mav the Lord deliver us all from our selfish ness and iealousy, and' fill our souls with heavenly disinterested lovo to himself and to all men. The worbl is surolv wide enough for us all. Even in England the extent of the field is out of all proportion to the Kstablishecl Church's means of cultivating it. Were all the ecclesiastics oi every description connected with our church, strong, active, /ealou8, holy men; were they all working clergymen, all labour- ing in the word and doctrine, and going in and out among the people, instant in season and ont of season, to save souls alive; were all this reallv the case, even then there would not be one half of ministerial labour, or pastoral teaching and preaching, which the state of the case requires. A goodly band would cer- tainly be mustered ; but not such an one as could grapple with all the population and wide spread districts of the country. The E.-^tablished Church is utterlv unefjual to the work, and unequal she ever has been. Why, then, this reluctance to others entering into labours so imperativelv called for, hut which we ourselves cannot perform .' At this very moment there are many extensive moral wastes lying untilled, either by episcopalirns or non- episcopalians. Could we. on any Sabbath-day, with one glance, behold every spot whare the Word of God was preaching by good men nf all denominations, and then compare the extent and abund- ance of the harvest with the few laliourers who were endeavour- ing to gather it in, surely we could not but feel they were few indeed: and ought we not to j)ray the Lord to send forth more 20 labourer? into hia harvest, instead ,.f r!j»ronracint, or tnm«Mni once or JL'" ^,f^'"' 1"'' "■'?'' '""J"^'"' ""<* f™''' » ""m^n bnrv 7h„ "'^ "■'■"'• '" ''••'l"'^'-> '""' marrv ,be living- to U Is mnv , r't",'""'," ""', ^'"■'■•'""'■"l "I our Lord's Supne"' "1 a nrmiipiors uoik. J he gmit rua.ss of the U'i'oilp is xvpII in ^.je ,au„« as in nnal dislri?!^, rr.,ui.o,o I'^Hl om ^s W am lexhoiioa at tho.r own r they wilF ever .e^k 'v 01 the thj„c..s that coiuorn their everla^lini^ l.oace N^o }>nt fW ^«norcMht\^ '"''"^ •enoranee, and in wilHn^ yu iiign-churc. Daily tW(M|iie.stif)n.s; 1st, Are voii re-illv mm -eent an.l ready to do all Ihat is required to 1^01; irZ^ h' al t ) ? ^"' ^? vonr arcoaat with jov and conf.dence in.u all h;is l)een our power to reach, then 1 would ask U'nnlVl ,^., scattered lloclis, sliould l,e left to all the dismal eonsemie,,... .f uo '.h "tn ' 7' ','•';■'■ ""!' "'">■■''"""'' ''^ -«^'afSrg^ h r^d su el this , >o"'"' ''^ """•'■■-'"'I'alian ministers? Sure y! Z ^i"7?P ^"'"-' -^:"pof a;>e?^:j •;, ttr 1^ fi 1 \;;esee enou-h lo conv nice us that the lord hath done great thmgs. And" among those hri^hrl!!;! .Z. fj.^auhlya dark t^nd dre.nry world, we discx)ver"nota' few^U'^C J^oid Jidth blessed ; and ^ve acknowledge and praise his holy 21 «• command • lot with B«? h 0, .sermon * living; to me case of i'H Supper; I small part as well in >ut, visited, er se^'k us, 0, )>ut they iible means in willing would ask •ealiy com- le, in thu« milies and confidence, hould you led to, and '^ould you ^our wide- [uentes of id gathered ? Surely, s of many rn to bless ie lack of that much I done hy an extent look over wherever 5f savage urnt and ast to the r Heaven ore years ow what the Lord fiio uirtl !W as the •ours the his holy name in and for it all. But for one such garden under episcopal culture, there are mani/, very mamf, in every part of the heathen world, under the 8])iritual luishan(^ry of non-episcopalians, where it may be truly said, " Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and tiie glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." In fact, the Lord has, by the linited instrumentality of various Protestant missionaries, done a work within the last thirly years, in evangelizing the dark parts of the earth, such as haf< vot been seen since the very earliest day of Christianity. And still every ])art of the vineyard is sending forth the cry for "more and more labourers, ten-fold beyond the power of any and of all the evangelical misssionary societies to comply with. Here is at once great cause of joy and of sorrow ; of joy, that the Lord is opening so wide a door f( ' the glad tiding!^ of salvation, and of sorrow, that the heralds of peace are so few. But, my christian reader, were the High-churcL, divine right, exclusive, episcopalian, apostolic succession doctrines the truths of God, then, instead of contemplating with delight what these various christian missionaries have done, and are now doing, we should condemn the whole of their proceed- ings ; and instead of praying the Lord of the harvest to send forth a hundred-fold more labourers, we should, if in our power, as a matter of duty, bring all to a stand ; we should silence every such voice as is now crying aloud, " Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh aw^ay the sin of the w^orld ;" we should warn the heathen t» depart from them, as from so many Korahs, Dathans, and Abirams, and to arrange themselves under the banner of Those popish priests and bishops who have just now arrived among th' m ; or, if this were not practicable, then to return back to their former ignorance, cruelties, and untold abominations, rather than acknowledge a non-succession minister. Instead of bidding the missionary "God-speed," on his quitting his native land for Africa or the South Sea Islands, we should frown on hm as a man who was presumptuously running into black and daring sin ; and declare that he, and those who ordained him to the ministry, and those who assigned him his post in the missionary field, were one and all, by so doing, ripening for the Almighty's most awful judgments. From the savage, heathen portion of Asia, Africa, and America, where non-episcopal ministers are labouring, and where God the Holy Ghost hath, by their instrumentality, gathered into the fold of Christ many hundreds of thousands of souls ; let us now turn Our thoughts to P^arope, and especially to thof^e kingdoms and Lations where the iron yoke of Popery has been broken and cast away, and where Protestant, evangelical, national churches have long been organized, cyid where thoy have, in deed and in truth. I •»o udminii^tercu, and are now adnjinisteiiivs:, to the iriHtruction and ronsolation of millions of souls. Suielv llii.s is a «ubject of un- ver.sil gladness to cvcrv nieinlxT of tlic rrotestant Church ot Eiis;land; a Hibject lliat'tall> foilh one j?em;ral cry oi "The Low Irle.sK voii, and "keep >ou. I'lie Lord make his lace to jjhine upon you, and be gracious unto vou. The Lord lift up Iuh countenance upon >(>u, and givtr vou peace." And is this the case? iSo, there is neitlier the voice of congratulation nor the sinalJest kindly feeling in the bosom of our l*useyite and Ultra lligh-churchmen towards these churche.^; but fr(»wiisand condenmation are lareely bestowed on them all. And wherefore .' Hecau^.;, on their deli- verance from Topish thraldom, tln^e nations lormed tliemselves into non-episcopal churches; and have continued to regulate all their spiritual concerns bv a svstem of church order and disciphne, which Ihev consider more edifying than our own. For usmgthis their fret-dom, and fm sciving'fJod in accordance to the dictates of their own rjuiscienre, and their views oi scrji)tural church order, our Pusevites and Tltras have actually pronounced them reproitates: No matter what may be the learning, piety, zeal, and devoledness of the ministers, they are declared to stand exactlv in the position of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and their flocks; as people who, at best, can oniy " be left to tlie uncove- nauted mercies of Cod." Thev are non-episcopal churches; and let us repeat what llie rUra high-churchmen and Puseyites say concerning all such. " Whosoever is di.sunited from Jhe visible communion of the church on earth, and particularly from the visible communion of the hl.shop, must consequently be disunited from the whole visible catholic cburch on earth ; and not only so, but from the invisible communion of the holy angels and saints in Heaven, and, what is more, from Christ ■AnAfrom G-jdhimstlf:'* And again, r- unless Christ be spiritually present with the minis- ters oi religion in their services, those services will be vain. But the o*j/v miiiistrations to wiiich ]kiidi< prumisal his presence is to those of the bi.diops who are the successors of the first comnus- sioned Apostles and the utlicr der-y acting under their function and bu their (wthorifij:-\ In this sweeping destruction tire Church of Scoi and. and aU the Non-conformist Churches in England are included. Tliey are one and all without tlu^ covenant of God's promise of a single blessing : But I will follow out this heart- sickening subject no further. Surely it is among the most tlireateiiing signs of the times that doctrines and opinions laden with such consequences, sliould be held and advocated in o^dftv * Dodwell'a one Altar and one Priest. t Dr. Ho 9k. *% ! I «5t» f»y Kne;]iMlnii(Mi callinej tlioin.^ehos Protcstanf riiri?«lian»<. and lioldina; po.sts as miiiitt'is ol tlx; (io>),el oi" the I.onI Jesus Clirist in the Cliiirch of Kii/^land ; tliat Ihcir shiiuld br such a readiness, aiuonj^ the liijrher onh-rs of the |M'oj>I«', to fall in with such leaden*, and eiieonra^M- thrni in liieir iimtic eonrsL- ; \v(dl iriav these " rcclesia.stical aii^itators," these adversaries to IJu' Iruth as it is la .lesws, rejoio' and lake conraire al the suecess of tlifir '• ai>-Itatioii,'' and sjircaci of their poj»ish princi])le.s ; and \\ellniav every one wlio knows and h)ves the pure, unadulterated (lospH ho sorrowful and cast dow n al sneii proofs of an almost universal tendency lo relapse into popery and superstition n\ home and abroad. The more the signs ol' the tinn,-s ar(! eoiilcmjdated, the more astoni.'iiiinir aiid distressin on the stiil wider inthnmce which is indirectly telling on great numbers who, as yet, do not profes.s jo join i item". Alas, this is but l(>o true, and to ihis iiidirccf mfhiciKc, si/mf/i/ sfr(///nu: on nnntif posite to their^ as light is from darkness and sorrow- froni joy. Nor do I sian- I wa.-^ mi.siakpii. I now look on tiie piogres.s of these doctrines in a ver\ ditlerent light, I am an alarnii.si. 1 believe our church was niivei in the daufrer she now I 24 is, exceptj immediately before the great rebellion. Not the High- church i-arty of which Archbishop Laud was then the head, nor the Non-Juiors who condemned the glorious Revolution of 1688, carried out so many of the main principles of the Church of Rome, and professetl them so formally, fully and systematically within the Church of England, as is now openly done."* But, my reader, if the good bishop saw cause of serious alarm theuy how much more must he behold nou\ Up to the delivery of that charge the moral jiestilence of Puseyism had been principally confined to the Presidency of Madras ; but since then, it has burst forth in all unfeeling annoyance and contempt of every private admonition and public exortation of Doctor Wilson ; bearding him as it were, to the face in his own diocese ; so that it is now in the fair way of soon throwing that portion of the Lord's vineyard into utter confusion ; of greatly corrupting the truth ; of misleading and confounding the Tndo enquirer; and of obstructing, grieving, and perplexing the Established Church, and every faithful missionary and minister of the Gospel of Christ, whether episcopalian or non-episcopalian, in that forlorn and heathen land. Such is the state of things at this day in Calcutta and the principal actors are clergymen, and professors connected with the Church of England, \>rho are working with their brethren a;, home, in all the activity and cunning of the most determined Jesuits, to unprotestantize the christian converts who have already been gathered under the banner of Christ ; and to gather others irom among the pagans to a system of their own devising, made up of Puseyism and legendary falsehoods.! My christian reader, again let me repeat, we have arrived at a crisis that is, in its progress, to conindse, not England onlijy but every portion of the v>orld mherc Christianity is planted, and where the servants of God are labouring to plant if. Every where will Popery proper, and Popery indirect, contest the ground inch by inch; and everywhere will popish principles, under various shades, names, and distinctions, be forced on mankind ; a sifting time seems hastening on, a winnowing season that will separate the wheat from the chaflf, and cleanse the floor, a time that will show what men are, and discover, in many instances, how far \he reality is from the apparent. May the Lord preserve and keep us from falling and from " receiving the mark of the beast !" Having stated what I conceive to be our threatening dangers^ { • Charge, 1841, p. C4. t See a letter from Calcutta, dated August 1J3, 184'^; in the London, ReBord of October i.7, following. ■* ( 36 fti^t place, o my brethren in the ministry of the Estah i«hp^ Church and that by saying, we must humble o.rsefvefLtre God for our own individual unfaithfulness to our solemn trn!t a! pastors and ministers of Christ's iiock We mnst^?^ ? • ^ blessed Lord h mself Therp vft nra t /^ ♦ exan^pie ot our Stand aloof from PLy'^nJi Ca^^^TZ H r\"\° no lew ol yon are, more or less, entaneled in the npt nf Z, J , all Hieh-cburcli extravagancies, of all Pusevism nf »lii)!^ and of every ki«d of sp.?ituali„tolemnc .TSmos elmS beseech you to break from this leading snare to roZ v.,t i '^ from th.s self. exa ting temptation; and'"notto thmk JZh I'' of yourse ves than ye ourM to th nk " Inol. m, i T ^'^^? prayer and camnes/on tlWsscLme LoofeZit 1 h'4"br''' in every age of the church, when armed w h „ower I r,nl "! whatitisnowdoin^- and thpin^l- .'r„„ f ' ''0°^ at consequences be agr'eU^e' to th'e^mind o^C'h;!: fe^ ^.'n "1" o^ ttir.""i''.!dT "' "-™-™-''"«g the chSm.it tl" Htnits— -dto a man who is lahourinjr to think and fppi nn thi i ject as I must and shall do when I am ac^n^Ilv nn T '"^'■ fro:n earth to Heaven Be as^ul 1 it7. t^^^^'f^. "" '"y . P^'^^^a^c destructive of harmony and p^ce iV^Xuf 'ST' /^"'' ^ ^' universal sympathy in^5en,S!"Hl^^^"^i^^^^^^^^^^^ of that the everl.e.sed God hlth made the Xtion of Sliot'of millions to depend on such a scheme; or that hireoven^^^ promises of mercy are shut out from all ixit those whn n^i ministered untoby episcopalian bishops, ancleptcoH^no'da^^ eachers and preachers ! Can you seriously iJieve th-it A^T kingdom of God cannot universally hll the Ltt unless t^ constituted un If thc^e are •"= . ^ :^«victions of your mind..- then mu». >' »" ' "^f^^ ^Sr f. »r a«w»et-eme ins; r'aviourot love and "^^^f "^ ;°, '',... i,^„, . VCrt:: daiiy a«e'n.lins to C^d trom ""= "'^^ °'^*'7„„* S; UKWi;U;.las: IhonambvT is t.,0 lew, and ' '« «f^ '™ '?7^, y^.?iudeea. but it, ml ^"-- [- ?'t: .tSoul^. ;';\ns",^t\^Ki;n\y «- f J^i f ,'stnrr. S Jte-JH. tliat ail onr efforts shonH be directed. ]°; "^^^^^ w iition of this giorious object oar aaily I™>,«'^^ . '°"Kl til «tl. ««i»S thi tUi. i« the very th;ng ^^^'^i ^^^^^^r. Oiseipies of Jesus one, whenever it <^'\r" .P'^i,'-^ ' , r°,%t kain to w, *b« Void the .ame ^rand tn,th» o '>'« ^0*^1 '"''^t^'^" ^^ (Ml «Hd act a» brethren, and to love all who ^oW tj-e wrac wi^ ^ love the Ix)rd Jwns in sp.nl and m rath, or *? »»;« ^ ^pturll evidence of ourselves be,r,g '«» ."'*°)'^i, ^e SZienw, thie fri-ne of mind, ^^e have no sa « evidence that we ^etve« 1 ave •' y^s,^ from death unto 1,1c. ' O. J°^». '"•^'^^ Si. .-v. i,r»(\iren we never can thus lee! and act tov.4ias ine Krinr'^^^^^^^^^^^ Lord Jenus who belong ^ non-epj^ ^ branches of the umversal church---%ve never can en^^^^^ SThaliowea unity of spirit, into this expenmentai heavenly bond S^n^; ^lon^ L we cling to the delusive. mtoxicatingd«i^^« ^ i^'oLu mccUsion and exclusive divme ngiii o/ ij^^^^t--3 { tr tedience le Word : 8€ttled linquish rlh a8 it Lce shall a." On ,nnot be bond of among ih that 1 not meat , not one id peace, i neither th which ssibillity [long his attera of « a cora- 1 offering 8 all the a heart ; 30 fainl! tB of the uloua fire the name ; consum* ascend lo e all the brethren, t learn to ime truth, : have no thout thlB ;e that we n iii. 14.) wards the non-epis- «;nler into /enlybood Lg doetri&e Oh, bear with me a little while ; 1 do not aek you to surrender one iotH of the clearly revealed truth* of God, nor do I tek yen to become non-conformiRt of any name or order ; but I do OMMt earnestly implore you, aa you value thq truths and righteousnoas of Heaven —as you value the pospel of peace and love on mtHL — iis you value the real plory and christian rharacter of the F/Stabiished Church, by all these I do implore you to give up tlii« kJtjh.minded, untenable doctrine ; and to esteem every educated, ordained evangelical ministering servant of the Lord as a brothet in Christ Je^^us, a fellow-labo\irer in the creat vineyard of the world. I beseech yon, not only to feel willing that the pleasure of the Lord may prosper in their hands, but that you stand refwiy to give glory to the God of all grace, wheneve'f and tchnevir yon behold that grace displayed tluough such instrumentality. Oh, were it possible for redeemed and glorified spirits to \vee|i in >Ieaven, many a tear would ere now have been ehcd by episcf- palians and non-episcopalians on the recollection of tho^ unworthy feelings they once cherishe I towards each other whe& dwellers on earth. But in Heaven they weep not — they are of Oft« mind ; being all absorbed in the love and adoration of their com- mon Ix)rd and Saviour, and in the experitnce of unutterable arwl undying^ affection for each other. In that bles.sed world there hst no partition walls, no artificial distinctions, no jealousies or etrife, unless it be the strife of love. And is not that the very heaven we ourselves are looking forward to ; and do we not now fe«l assured that all those will meet and hail us as brethren who on earth " worshipped God in the spirit, rejoiced in Christ ,lesus, and put no confidence in the flesh ?" ^Vhy then do we entertaia sentiments that only tend to chill every spiritual afTection towards these brethren by the way, and to nend us, if possible, with feelings of unkindness even to the very margin of that better hnd ? Oh, why do we continue thus to deal towards each other; and that too, when, humanly speaking, the ark of the Lord is in jeopardy of being captured by the Philistines ? Dr. Puscy hesitates not to declare, that •' on liie issue of the pre.sent struggle bancs the destiny of the Church of England ;" and I believe he >« correct. Its destiny, so far as man can judge, does depend Ofi the issue of the present struggle. Here is a conflict not aboM trilles — not about sonu; few no;i-cssential matters ; hut s fltrugjgl* for real, vital Christianity — for the Gospel of Christ — for Prote»^ tanism ; aye, and for civil anond InrLranr^onir the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the edited TndTd^i.8^^^^ flocks, instead of going forth to meet Se^ encm^eR, the iron and the bear, when they were going abroad ^ ^0^' But, mv Christian readers, other men', neglect is no IxcuTfor our own. If they fail in ^^^-f, ^'mf t'^^^^^ "^ry iVo more needful it s that we do ours. Hear rne, tHen, ev..r> arrilan ^ent, into whose hands this humble ^^^ress may falL It may find you scattered far and wide irom f^c^\o^^»;^/,\^^^^^ flesh but I pray God it may find you present ^^d united wt^h ^^ch otha- in spirit. That in all the essential doctrines oi t le Got'l - Ve n4 be of one heart and one soul, united m one holy bonrol' tnith Mid peace, of faith and charitv, and witli one mind nnd one mouth,'' ye may serve and glorify the one and only Saviour of mankind. In this hope, then, let me entreat that your fervent requests be n.ade known unto God, that He would mero- fully preserve our country from Popery, and your beloved o^ fh^g rom Fuseyism and every popish system, ^^^^v^Xlu to '.nd dis-uised. Wa^ch and pray against every attempt of man to t .d vmi away from the simplicity of the Gospel. Bring all you h^ar^and rcaJl to that touc]istonc of tmth, that mdijmv-vun^ '^ Bee Articles of Religion, VJtb, on th« fSuffideqcy of the H«lf Penpturos fgr Palvfitiop, SI standard, rrer b^xHng in mind, that if sny m»n ffp«^ nM aeeorft- i4i£ to tb&t rule, it is because there is no light in him, what^rer luA station or pretentions may be. Let no man beguile you with TaiA wordfli, or with flattering, or threatening speeches. Do oil that in you lies to ground your children in a knowledge of the truth, as yov find it in Qoii's oiwi Wvrrd. Keep them on their guard against all fal^e doctrines. Especially make them under* stand, that the very foundation truths of the Gospel arc at stake; and to do this, endeavour to inform yourselves as to what the Puseyites really believe, and write, and preach ; and then teach your children, that these unhappy men are putting the risible '^ church in the place of Christ, by teaching that " she alone is the true hiding-place, into which the servants of God may flee for refuge and be safe."* Teach them that the leaders of the Puseyite-popish party, these troublers of the land, have publicly declared their determination, " not to stand fast ; btit to recede more and more from the princi- ples of the English Reformation ; that there minds are made up to do this, although in this their ecclesiastical agitation they vex the church with controverpy, alarm serious men, and set the father against the son, and the mother against the daughter."! Teach them that the whole frame-work of these men's system is "a Hy stein ot exiernalism and exclusiveism, tending to the wor*t forms of intolerajicc, pride, and bigotry. ♦• A system tliat «et? up tradition as of equal authority with the Bihlf, and paY> ua much homage to the sayings of the fathers as to the writinjr'- of tlie apostles, frequently interpreting the Word of G^mI by these sa\ ings of erring and fanatical mcn.| " A sVf'tom which substitutes fonas and ceremonies for the preaching of God's Word, aiid exalts sacraments and ordinances into the pkicc ui Christ himself. *' A jiysteni which toaches or sanctions, in the close imitation of Rome, the lighting up of large candle.^ at mid-day upon the altar^ the elevation of the cros!^ above the communion table, the dfu'oration of places of wor,«hip with pictures, crucifixes^ images of the saints, &c., the superstitious regard to the veitmenfs of the * LinwoofVs Sermone. t British Critic, No LIX, page 45, ♦ That the fathers, so called, did write ond say many things that -'■' z- ' — ~.-J .«..j -™ ,».«,.9„^ ,,s,^Tr-..-5 5 r.f\1i lis«»t lia^T IlC*.jU"-S»Zy' mn into the wildest fancies and most unscripturel comment, is af^t nfi lojan with trnth cm ieay, S2 ♦ priests," the turnin- of the back of the j-riest upon the people, , '>beisances to the attar, the eiuharist, &c. &c. &c. -A system which recommends the preaching of the Gospel . WITH KFsnivE,' and throws a veil over the cross of our Redeemer, and fco. lowei>^ the glorious doctrine of the christian atonement. .' \ .vstem which exalts T^omanism nnd deteriorates Protes- t^kti.m'; which Inmcnts the latter, as liUlo better than a cur^e. while it sis^hs for the return of ' better days: " Teach them that " it is the essence of ^"^:cy ism to repudiate the ri^ht of any man to think and act for himseli^ Ihat it demands the sui4nder of his private judgment, and he maepen- dence of his actions to the teachino-s and injunctions of the church, Tlut • Hear the church-' is the sum ami substance of Puseyism. -That it sets aside, with unceremonious hand, the Bible and tm cons I tion,'and would compel universal obedience to its despotic d cm Tli^ it nsurps authority over the state and the sovereign, and is prep.reJ. to ttample on monarchy itseli should it dare to oppose its designs.*'* Teach them, how Paseyism mai^itains that bapt^s^n and not faith is the primary instrument oi .ust,hcation ;t and tha the ■('t^y^^ notion of bringing: forward the doctrine ot the a one ment explicitly and prominently on all occasions, .s evidentl Tte opposed to the teaching of Scripture."? And, moreo e , ^ t at al children bai.tized by the church are converted, and that to the'eb ptizedindlvidualB^hevecanbe no saving repent^ance or sii^ cL\mitted after they have reached the years ot matun y hat all which can be hoped for is a rccnnvcrsnni by means of h a amn,/.." Teach theln, that these l>useyites repudiate ever. '^oi an evangelical nature, and j^ace the -;^^!^.---'^^- relieion in tlie observance ot external lorn s. Ihat tliey an. .rea ickiers for fa.ts and feasts, and attn,ch greater importance^ SThen t an to the Sald)ath Day.'%^ Teach them, that the Pusey. Ues i^e hat ^. the bread and wine are changed by the conse- ^;:;;;"f the pnest, and the operation of U.Wy GhoBt,^and become the verv bochi and very blood ot our Lord. || Ihat me "of makiiig thi body and blood of Chnst is vested in th,. * Advertip«^r. t New on Justification. •♦ T**..,r.ta fnr thp Time?. No. 80. ^ Observer. U Palmer's Letter to a Protestant Catholic, p. 3(V ^ i 33 ' puccessors of the Apostles ;"* and that they are euch privileged men as belonging to the Apostolic Succession line, while all other ministers, not of the Church of England, or of that of Rome, are wicked intruders, as were Korah, Dathan, and Abiram ! But I will proceed no further; time would fail to enumerate a tenth part of the folly and wickedness of these men.f That such monstrous absurdities, such popish heresies, such Jesuitical and Jacobinical sentiments should, at this day, be openly professed and advocated by a portion of the clergy, tutors of colle