ninists in general and usually denominated Calvinistic.

I cannot conclude without reminding the reader of the narrow ground that I have taken, and remarking, that many of the tenets avowed by the Bishop appear to me as irreconcilable with the plain decisions of Scripture, and with just practical views of human nature, as with the Formularies of the Church; and on the other hand, without pledging myself to the propriety of every expression in the numerous quotations here adduced against his Lordship, that many of the sentiments, which he opposes, are such as in my apprehension cannot be rejected, without rejecting or misinterpreting various passages of the Sacred Scriptures. But this ground of discussion, except so far as it may have been in cluded in the foregoing extracts, I leave to the oc cupation of persons capable of doing it ample jus tice. I will add, however, that many of the prin ciples impugned by his Lordship are those in which WICKLIFFE and ZUINGLE, LUTHER and CALVIN, MELANCTHON and BEZA, CRANMER and RIDLEY, LATIMER and JEWELL, with a host of excellent predecessors and successors, notwithstanding their minor differences, were all agreed :-Principles, which in every age of the Church have been made instrumental, by the divine blessing, in the moral and spiritual regeneration of men-Prin ciples, which have arrested some of the most abandoned profligates in their career of iniquity, which have exchanged the justest apprehensions of future vengeance for well grounded confidence in the divine mercy,-which have animated the hu man breast with the purest and most exalted piety,

which have inspired the heart with the most disinterested, ardent, and expansive philanthropy,-which have adorned the life with every virtue,-which have alleviated present sufferings with the prospect of endless enjoyments,-which when the eyes have been closing on the scenes of earth have opened them on the beauties of paradise, and while the body has been sinking amidst the swoonings of death have caused the spirit to beat high with the pulsations of immortality :-Principles, which at this hour are calling forth the noblest energies of Christians of various denominations, forming unions and prompting exertions unexampled and unthought of in past ages,-exertions that bid fair to realise the apocalyptic vision of an angel flying in the midst of Heaven,"* to circulate the word of life in every language, to instruct the ignorant and reform the vicious in every land.

For the freedom with which I have animadverted on some of the positions of the learned Prelate, I make no apology. I trust I have not forgotten that the subject of my animadversions is the work of a Scholar, a Gentleman, and a Protestant Bishop-though I am constrained to add, a work which contains passages sufficient to justify a suspicion, whether his Lordship may not sometimes have experienced a momentary oblivion of the obligations resulting from those characters. Whatever be the respect due to rank or function, the claims of truth are paramount to every other consideration;† and ought never to be compromised

* Rev. xiv. 6.

† Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates, sed magis amica Veritas.

or waved, even in appearance, by complimentary concessions or apologies. If the charges of mistake, misrepresentation, and inconsistency, here brought against his Lordship, be incorrect and groundless, no apology ought to redeem them from the censure which in that case they justly deserve. But if these charges have been established, or if they can be established, something more than apology is due from his Lordship, to the Public, to his Clergy, to his Metropolitan, and above all, to the Supreme Master whom he professes to serve with his spirit in the Gospel of "his Son," for having written and published such a Book.

I shall now conclude with expressing my sincere desires," that it may please Almighty and Ever"lasting God, who alone worketh great marvels, " to send down upon all Bishops, Priests and "Deacons the healthful Spirit of his grace,--to "bring into the way of truth all such as have "erred and are deceived,-to illuminate them with "the knowledge and understanding of his word,— "to replenish them with the truth of his doctrine, "and to endue them with innocence of life, that ❝ both by their preaching and living they may set "it forth and show it accordingly; to give them "all those heavenly graces that are requisite for "their high trust, that his work may prosper in "their hand, that they may be made blessed in"struments of advancing his truth; that heresies "and false doctrines may not disturb the peace of "the Church; but that all the congregations com"mitted to their charge, hearing meekly his word "and receiving it with pure affection, may be led

into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity "of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteous"ness of life; that truth and justice, brotherly "kindness and charity, devotion and piety, con"cord and unity, with all other virtues, may be "the stability of our times, and make this Church "a praise in the earth."*

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