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Church Of England Quarterly Review, And Ecclesiastical Record.
& l ) t CnHtt ' 0 brt'S > y now carreid on within the pale of the Tabernacle is one of the greatest that ever occupied the mind of a mighty nation . However supine , however profound the apathy and inertness of the lookers on , the present times teem with momentous issues . The Church of Taylor , of Hooker , of Latimer , and of Cranmer , is , under the thin pretence of violent modification , about to be prostrated to the dust ; her Re' -enues ( the reversionary property of such of our children who may hereafter take hol
y orders ) are to be foreclosed and confiscated : and her authority split amid swarms of separatists and sectaries , whose several species of government vie with each other in the absurdity of their constitution ; and whose tenets , to use the words of the mighty Bacon , " are full of schism , and inconsistent with Monarchy " , May God in his goodness forefend that the proprietor of •' The Church of England Review" should live and see that day of desolation . Contentedly would he lay down his life to avert the consummation
avowedly aimed at b y a section of the periodical press , Dangers are around and about us , infesting us in the Metropolis , pursuing us to the Country , and invading the leisure of our solitude . The Pedagogue in one sense is indeed abroad , but the mind is left uneducated , whilst that little learning which is often worse than ignorance , is universally diffused . It has been long since observed by one of the Ancients , ( Isocrates , in one of his orations against the Sophists ) that it is an easier matter to advocate the cause of
disaffection to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to convince their understandings in establishing a truth . The air of plausibility with which vulgar reasonings are promulged , is admirably suited to the narrow capacity of the multitude . Interdum fucata falsitas in multis est probabilior , et scepe rationibus vincit nudam veritatem . This can only effectuall y be countervailed by the intervention of Principle , which , happily imbibed in early childhood , acts as the Mgh of after life . But how rarely are those fixed principles , which are the natural deduction of an enlarged and liberal
system of morals , to be met with . ' i-Jor need this be a matter of surprise , since they can neither induct themselves in the human heart , nor maintain their station there , without the aid of RELIGION , the sole keystone of the fabric of human virtue . But alas ! that Catholic sense of Reli g ion , which was the genius of the Apostolic age , though as yet we trust far from extinct , is becoming comparatively rare , and the spirit of faction , and the brula fnhnina , the ignorant zealotry of schism have succeeded .
It is high time that the dreams of society , which menace us on all sides , which , shake the public security , and poison our very studies be dissolved . The wild visions of pseudo-religion , those ignes falui of enthusiastic presum ption , as unsubstantial as the mildew gossamer , must be dissipated in the clear sunshine of the Gospel , and the pure airs from Heaven . To this task we stand p ledged . We engage to burst asunder the fetters which ignorance and licentiousness forge for the enthralment of the human mind . We hope
to sway the hearts of our beloved Countrymen—too long denationalized , too long stolen or alienated from Ihe Church , with irresistible authority , and accomplish them for the society of Augels , and commune with the Omniscient . We will startle : we will arouse : we will , by the blessing of Providence , convert . We will hold out to England , and the English , the sacred lamp of religious and moral truth , and Ihe establishment shall be prompted to cultivate the affections ot he common people , and not , as
hitherto , repose , in lethargy and mildew , beneath the broad imperial branches of the Slate . The conceit and self-sufficiency , the lust of novelties , which are the dry vol of humanity , and which at this day urge men to the assault of revealed religion , and the attack of every thing ihe most venerable , and to be venerated , shall be rootod out , to make room for the divine Spiril , ' ¦ the eternal jewel of the soul . " We will keep no terms with error wheresoever we find her . We will pierce the triple felt of hypocrisy , and not the Purple , the . Ermine , or the Frock shall shelter iniquity . We make our appeal to Men , as Men , for that " we have all of us , " in the words of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Church Of England Quarterly Review, And Ecclesiastical Record.
& l ) t CnHtt ' 0 brt'S > y now carreid on within the pale of the Tabernacle is one of the greatest that ever occupied the mind of a mighty nation . However supine , however profound the apathy and inertness of the lookers on , the present times teem with momentous issues . The Church of Taylor , of Hooker , of Latimer , and of Cranmer , is , under the thin pretence of violent modification , about to be prostrated to the dust ; her Re' -enues ( the reversionary property of such of our children who may hereafter take hol
y orders ) are to be foreclosed and confiscated : and her authority split amid swarms of separatists and sectaries , whose several species of government vie with each other in the absurdity of their constitution ; and whose tenets , to use the words of the mighty Bacon , " are full of schism , and inconsistent with Monarchy " , May God in his goodness forefend that the proprietor of •' The Church of England Review" should live and see that day of desolation . Contentedly would he lay down his life to avert the consummation
avowedly aimed at b y a section of the periodical press , Dangers are around and about us , infesting us in the Metropolis , pursuing us to the Country , and invading the leisure of our solitude . The Pedagogue in one sense is indeed abroad , but the mind is left uneducated , whilst that little learning which is often worse than ignorance , is universally diffused . It has been long since observed by one of the Ancients , ( Isocrates , in one of his orations against the Sophists ) that it is an easier matter to advocate the cause of
disaffection to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to convince their understandings in establishing a truth . The air of plausibility with which vulgar reasonings are promulged , is admirably suited to the narrow capacity of the multitude . Interdum fucata falsitas in multis est probabilior , et scepe rationibus vincit nudam veritatem . This can only effectuall y be countervailed by the intervention of Principle , which , happily imbibed in early childhood , acts as the Mgh of after life . But how rarely are those fixed principles , which are the natural deduction of an enlarged and liberal
system of morals , to be met with . ' i-Jor need this be a matter of surprise , since they can neither induct themselves in the human heart , nor maintain their station there , without the aid of RELIGION , the sole keystone of the fabric of human virtue . But alas ! that Catholic sense of Reli g ion , which was the genius of the Apostolic age , though as yet we trust far from extinct , is becoming comparatively rare , and the spirit of faction , and the brula fnhnina , the ignorant zealotry of schism have succeeded .
It is high time that the dreams of society , which menace us on all sides , which , shake the public security , and poison our very studies be dissolved . The wild visions of pseudo-religion , those ignes falui of enthusiastic presum ption , as unsubstantial as the mildew gossamer , must be dissipated in the clear sunshine of the Gospel , and the pure airs from Heaven . To this task we stand p ledged . We engage to burst asunder the fetters which ignorance and licentiousness forge for the enthralment of the human mind . We hope
to sway the hearts of our beloved Countrymen—too long denationalized , too long stolen or alienated from Ihe Church , with irresistible authority , and accomplish them for the society of Augels , and commune with the Omniscient . We will startle : we will arouse : we will , by the blessing of Providence , convert . We will hold out to England , and the English , the sacred lamp of religious and moral truth , and Ihe establishment shall be prompted to cultivate the affections ot he common people , and not , as
hitherto , repose , in lethargy and mildew , beneath the broad imperial branches of the Slate . The conceit and self-sufficiency , the lust of novelties , which are the dry vol of humanity , and which at this day urge men to the assault of revealed religion , and the attack of every thing ihe most venerable , and to be venerated , shall be rootod out , to make room for the divine Spiril , ' ¦ the eternal jewel of the soul . " We will keep no terms with error wheresoever we find her . We will pierce the triple felt of hypocrisy , and not the Purple , the . Ermine , or the Frock shall shelter iniquity . We make our appeal to Men , as Men , for that " we have all of us , " in the words of the