Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

A Conference of Theologians.
can affect so vast a circle of men, so virtuous,
so able, so learned, so zealous, as come more
or less under your influence .... I know
the joy it would give those conscientious men to
be one with ourselves. I know how their hearts
spring up with a spontaneous transport
very thought
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at the
of Union." Such is the valuable
testimony of Dr. Newman at the present
juncture. Now that every such hope will be
questioned and even rejected in certain quarters
is no more than we have reason to
expect,
at the difference of sentiment which
looking
exists amongst Roman Catholics for or against
the English Church.
The late Cardinal himself, as we have
seen, anticipated disquietude, from even
broaching it. How much more then ought
we to expect opposition when it is an
actual Conference that we propose. Thus
it was in regard to the Conference at Poissy ;
there were those, we read, who "thought it
strange and dishonourable to put
the reli
gion of their predecessors to compromise
and hazard ;" others said
6( it was a bad
example to treat of error once and that they ought not
condemned,
so much as to
hear those who deny their
religion which
hath continued so long and been so amply
confirmed." Others, however, said that it
would be generally good to handle these con-
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