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138 1G36 and 1866.
those who had more immediately commissioned
Leander and Panzani to undertake so important
a work.
Both on the Anglican and Roman side, how
ever, there were two sections of people, powerful
and energetic, to whom, for very different
reasons, the idea of Re-union was distasteful ;
and who consequently allowed no means to be
un-used for damaging the progress of the work.
These were respectively the Puritans and the
Jesuits. It would have been exceedingly obvious,
even to the most shortsighted, that if a Re-union
had been effected, Puritanism must have suffered
very considerably by such a change. Ecclesi
astical authority would have stepped in once
more, with a clear voice and definite policy,
to condemn both the exaggerations of truth and
the overgrown errors of an age which was
rapidly becoming out of joint, mainly through
the changes that had been wrought in England s
relation with other Christian countries nearly
a century before. When, therefore, it began to
be bruited about that both Roman and Anglican
clergy were privately engaged in the further
ance of such a scheme, and that the Pope of
Rome had so far sanctioned the plan,
as to
have commissioned two special envoys to
enquire into its feasibility, Puritanism forgetting
its prayers and praises, took to curses and strong
adjectives. One Cook protested against the