Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

152 .Defects and their Remedy in Re-union.
Truth prevails and Right asserts itself. Being
what Englishmen are, this is by far the best
way to settle differences and bring truth to the
surface, and it would be found the only w"ay by
English Roman Catholics themselves, if they
were a more influential body. It is foreign,
not English policy to put a fair face upon your
affairs whatever they may be in reality, and
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this policy, through the intervention of foreign
influences, has too much affected the Anglo-
Ivomaii body. But to the uninitiated this
at first
produces an appearance of unanimity,
sight very attractive, especially
to those who
knowing the Faith to be but one, are wearied
out with the contradictory statements and
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laxity of Protestantism, and feel the necessity
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that teachers authorized by GOD should all
speak the truth and be
and with one another.
in accordance with it
In earlier days this conviction led many
among us hastily to abandon one Communion for
the other; but now with increased confidence in
the strength of our own position, and decreased
confidence in our own perfections, we naturally
compare systems with that other part
of the
Christian family which we feel to be teaching
in the main the same faith, among the same
race, in the same state of societv, and which
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has therefore to contend with the same diffi
culties. It is only a superficial observer who