Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

104 The Difficulties of Re-union.
the Mother of God, cannot be received by the
great body of English Christians. Not many
years ago at the request of the late Archbishop of
Canterbury, and without any remonstrance from
any single Bishop that was publicly heard, this
her wondrous title, which, if it be not hers of
right, has deceived the faithful in all ages, and
He in Whom they have trusted is not the
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Eternal Son, is not the Second Person of the
Almighty Trinity,
this incommunicable title
of the Most Blessed Virgin was struck out of
books published by the old and wide-spread
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
By that act I need not say that the most
venerable of all Church of England Societies is
committed to an overt act, however uncon
sciously, an overt act of heresy.
Having spoken thus strongly on the one side,
I wish to say a few words in order to guard
myself from being misunderstood on the other.
It has lately been said by Dr. Newman in his
touching
that the
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cultus of the Blessed Virgin,
as we see it practised
in the Church of Rome,
flows from the titles of
naturally and properly
honour lawfully attributed to her by the early
Church. With the sincerest deference to
the
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Master," I cannot see the sequitur. Ap
of due honour to a creature whom
warm and glow-
God hath delighted to honour ;