Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

108 The Difficulties of Re-union.
been brought home to iis in a more than usually
painful way by the Pastoral Letter of Archbishop
Manning. I am not about to complain of that-
Pastoral ; it would be unreasonable to do so,
it was addressed to the Archbishop s own flock,
not to Anglicans : its arguments therefore do
not touch us. They have been said to be
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founded on assumptions that have been met
and answered over and over again, that the
Archbishop knows this better than most men ;
but that nevertheless he ignores the fact, and
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writes on calmly and grandly, as though his
assertions never had been questioned, and
never could be. This is sometimes said of that
Pastoral, but we must remember, that he is
addressing persons whom he has a right to
suppose admit his premisses, and who must
therefore accept
his conclusions. It is for them,
not for an Anglican, to see and judge how far
those premisses must be thus admitted, and
whether the conclusions drawn from them are
logical and seeing, that
just.
if all
But this we cannot help
Roman Catholics must of
necessity accept those premisses, and admit the
conclusions, any Re-union with them is hope
less. As surely as the Protestantism of England
must be rooted out, so surely must the Ultrai/
montanism of Rome be forgotten, before there
can be peace,
or the hope of
peace.
It is in
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vain to argue with it Rome has ;
spoken,
the