Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

134 1636 and 1866.
by those bishops who had so favourably heard
the propositions of Father Leander. Amongst
these Montague, Bishop of Chiehester, a pre
late of great learning, true Catholic principles
and considerable discretion the Archbishop of
Canterbury being set aside stood in the fore
most rank. Having solicited a
personal interview
with Father Panzsni, he immediately unfolded
the plan for a Corporate Re-union between the
churches, signifying his sincere desire for its
accomplishment. He asserted that both the
archbishops, together with Juxon, bishop of
London, and other prelates,* with most of the
more learned of the inferior
clergy, marking the
growing evils around, were quite prepared to
allow the if
primacy, not the spiritual supremacy
that there seemed
of the Holy Father ; adding
no other mode of ending the interminable dis
putes or of restoring religious peace, than by
having recourse to some centre of ecclesiastical
o
unity. As regards the questions of transubstantiation
and communion in one kind a
dogma and a practice he was unprepared to ap
prove, the Bishop recommended that moderate
deputies of theological ability might be selected
from both sides to consider such differences at a
* On another occasion Montague expressly informed
Panzani, that only three out of the whole bench of bishops,
viz. Morton of Durham, Davenant of Salisbury, and Hall
of Exeter could be looked upon as opposed to the scheme.
Vide Memoirs, p. 246.