CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Character of Mr. Gladstone's style.—Object of this work.—A spirit of spoliation a principal source of Anglican Protestantism.-Invited to this reply by the Member for Newark.-The insecurity of the tenure and title-deeds of the Church of England.-Catholic truth will again prevail CHAPTER II. 1 The Church of England defective in constitution, and unlawful in principle.— Mr. Gladstone's charge, that Catholics deem infidelity the proper path to lead a Protestant back to the ancient faith, untrue.-Impropriety of employing insulting appellations, when speaking of the professors of the religion of our ancestors. Vain attempt of the party of Dr. Pusey, to obtain for themselves the name of Catholics.-Protestants, the proper designation of members of the Church of England 7 CHAPTER III. What is the Church of England?—Is a belief in the Thirty-nine Articles necessary to form an orthodox Churchman ?—No spiritual legislative authority to declare what is of faith, or even to regulate the discipline of Anglican Protestantism.-The crown, or the temporal powers, the only fountain of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Established Church.-Absurdity of Dr. Pusey's assertion, that his party and the Catholics have appealed to the Church to settle their differences.-The Church of England, separated from the state, ceases to exist 14 CHAPTER IV. Lord John Russell more correct than Mr. Gladstone, in his views regarding the Established Church. The temporal prerogatives of a Catholic sovereign, never gave him a particle of jurisdiction or spiritual authority, in the Catholic religion. Mr. Gladstone's law, incorrect. His theories not reducible to practice.-Hooker.-Warburton and Paley opposed to his views.-Apostolical succession in Ireland. -The conditions of a lawful appointment to the episcopacy.-Ecclesiastical appointment to a see, must come from the superior authorities of religion.-Without this any one consecrated is an intruder.-Attempts of Queen Elizabeth to force a pseudo-episcopacy and clergy upon the Irish people.-Character of the first intruders.-Dr. Hook's b theological theory.-Fidelity of the Irish Catholic bishops in the reign of Elizabeth. Their fate.-Carefulness to perpetuate the episcopal succession.-Heroism of the Catholic priesthood of Ireland under most frightful persecution.— Constancy of the laity.-Charge of schism made by the intruders against the Catholic hierarchy of Ireland.-Dr. Mant.-Opinion of Dr. William King. -The preservation of an Established Church in Ireland, acknowledged to be a gross injustice to the nation.-The absurdity of the arguments in favour of its continuation.-Vindication of the present Catholic clergy of Ireland.Rev. Mr. Sewell, and his article entitled "Romanism in Ireland," in a note. -Inference drawn from the preceding arguments. CHAPTER V. 26 Lectures by Dr. Chalmers on National Churches, delivered in London, in 1838. -Equivocal compliments paid to them by Mr. Gladstone.-Dr. Chalmers supports the necessity of a preaching authority.-His inconsistencies.—Insult he offers to the Catholics of Ireland.-While he aids the cause of Catholicism, he attacks not only us, but also many of his Anglican employers. -Pleading for additional wealth for the Church, he commends its diminution. -His praise of Knox.-The Doctor's pleasant description of the effects of the union between Church and State 52 CHAPTER VI. Catholic Emancipation Act.—Inalienable right of British senators, to vote with the utmost freedom, upon every question connected with the common-weal.— Efforts to curtail the rights of Catholic Members of Parliament.-Not worth notice. If successful, destructive of the Constitution.-Freedom of speech the effect of freedom of suffrage-Religious orders-The advantage of them to religion and the public.-The Society of Jesus-Protestant testimony in its favour.-Voltaire.-Cardinal Bausset.-English secular clergy.—The great merit of many, never surpassed.-How worthy of imitation. CHAPTER VII. 64 Protestants condemn the crime of schism in word, patronise it in deed.— Episcopal ordination now deemed of the last and most vital importance, in the Anglican communion.-Not always so.-The first Anglican Protestant Bishops, covetous of the wealth, not of the grace, of the episcopal order.— The Protestant schism.-Unlawful consecration gives no jurisdiction in the Church. How St. Augustin and his companions were appointed bishops.The ancient Catholic bishops, by canonical institution, not by consecration, the successors of the apostles of our country.-The impolicy and folly of talking of the glories of the pretended Reformation.--A few important queries.-Necessity of plain speaking.—Earl of Radnor and Rev. Hugh M'Neile. 74 CHAPTER VIII. Dr. Hook's Sermon before the Queen.--The Catholic ministry.-Obliged to reject the Anglican orders as invalid.-Fatal denial, by the Protestant Church, of holy orders, as a sacrament.-Catholic bishops refuse to ordain the A glican intruders.-Necessity of observing the rites of the Church, in ordaining the ministers of the Church.-Misrepresentations of Palmer.-Pusey and Palmer.-Antiquity of the ceremonies of the Catholic form of consecration.— Dr. Pusey attacked with his own weapons.-The manner in which Barlow pretended to consecrate Matthew Parker.-The ordination null and void.Felt to be so by the first Protestants.-Episcopacy preserved from political motives.-Omit the discussion of several questions unfavourable to the Anglican orders; their case already being so deplorable.-A contrast.Charge of schism, made against Catholics, refuted-The glorious position of Catholicism; how worthy an object of our pride and our love. CHAPTER IX. 90 Opinion of the Lord Bishop of Chester.-Of other Protestant divines.-The Protestant Church unpopular.-Why?-Long and tenacious attachment of the English to the ancient faith, after the pretended Reformation.-Incorrect statements of Mr. Gladstone. His fifth chapter.-His Catholic doctrine.— Its results to his Church.-His principles of Scriptural interpretation.Want of unity; its remedy.—Argument of Dr. Miller against Dr. Pusey.--The real principle of the Church of England.-Reply to Mr. Gladstone's objections.-Character of Catholic arguments.-Illustrated by example.Difference between the priesthood and the episcopacy.-The superiority of the successors of St. Peter of Divine institution.-Doctrine of the ancient Church. Objections of the Puseyites.-Concessions of opponents.-Reason and analogy in our favour. 116 CHAPTER X. Bill of Indictment against Catholicism.-Depriving the laity of the cup.Destruction of inward religion.-Interposition of the saints, and the mediation of the Redeemer.-Dr. Pusey and Bishop Hall.-Doctrine of purgatory connected with the highest notions of the most sublime Christian perfection. -Antiquity and Piety.-Holy Water.-Works of supererogation proved from Protestant practice.-Indulgences do not abrogate our spiritual discipline.-Confession salutary and of precept.-Practised by the most eminent members of the Church of England.-The friend of order and discipline.~ Luther's appeal to a general council.-Conclusion. 146 THE CHURCH IN ITS RELATIONS WITH TRUTH AND THE STATE. ETC. CHAPTER I. "Qui benignitate et clementiâ imperium temperavêre, his læta et candida omnia visa; etiam hostes æquiores, quam aliis cives."-SALLUSt. SIR, 1. If I may be permitted to translate the Latin word imperium, as signifying influence-a meaning attached to it in more than one classic writing; the above sentiment of Sallust is not inapplicable to the effect produced by the conciliating language, which generally has come from the lips of the member for Newark. Thus while, unfortunately for England, you seldom employ that power, which great talents, and a highly cultivated mind, secure for their possessor, in promoting or advancing the liberties of your fellow countrymen; nor yet do you appear able to detect the very equivocal character of what you always designate as, par excellence, The Church; yet there is so bland a tone in your addresses to the senate of the nation,-such an urbanity of treatment, which you do not refuse the professors of the ancient faith, that while you are far from gaining the assent of your antagonist's judgment in favour of your crude, ill-matured speculations, you evidently fain would lure him, through the medium of his good nature, to surrender to you positions, of which you are reckless in attempting the seizure. If you be in those moments our formidable antagonist, it is by the softness of the siren, not by the strength of the giant; it requires more of the wisdom of a Mentor to caution our youth against the alluring voice of a Calypso, than the art of an Ulysses to blind you, while daringly attempting to devour the bread, which our forefathers have cast for us upon a sacred perennial stream, at the very head of the river of primitive Christianity. 2. But the waters of which you would now make us drink, are drawn from well springs, which the heroes of the pretended B |