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have surely tended to a Letter understanding,
if not in due course to a restoration of visible
Unity. Moreover, as to the sincerity
of the
envov himself, whose means of knowing not
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only what the leading Roman Catholics of the
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day entertained on the subject,
but also the
true position and character of the Reformed
Church of England there can be little doubt ;
after both the explicit record of his inmost
sentiments to his friend and patron the Car
dinal, and the wise suggestion with which his
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letter concludes : If the affair of the Union
should not succeed, I am content to grow grey
in the drudgery towards accomplishing it. I
will not make use of many words, but it appears
to me that a mutual agency is the natural and
the only way to promote it."
Towards the close of the year 1636, Father
Panzani returned to Rome. His mission had
at least set forth to Re-unionists on both sides
the great fact that, if no sacrifice of principle
were required, peace might soon be had. More
over it had likewise conclusively proved that the
temper and Christian spirit which in Queen
Mary s reign had animated Pope Julius the
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Third, in his well knowT n Bull, Dilecte /ill Noster,
for reconciling England and rehabilitating,
not re-ordaining the clergy was imitated to
the full by the reigning pontiff, as well as by
* Letter to Cardinal Barberini, July 17, 1636.