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the petition so often addressed to the Pontiff
"
Speak to
brother that he divide the inheritance with
in the records of Modern History :
my
me/
has not been answered as CHRIST Himself
answered it, and that it would have been better
for the Church and better for the world if it
had been otherwise. Headship of the Church
is one thing, and despotic government of it is
another. If some schools of Roman belief were
to be followed, we must send to Rome on the
occurrence of almost every event, to know
whether we were to like or dislike, applaud or
condemn, or at all events hold ourselves ready
to change our minds as soon as we found that
the Pope s opinion did not coincide with our
own.
It has long been a hackneyed boast of
Protestants that the free circulation of the
Holy Scriptures
is an effectual hindrance to
Popery.
It must throw them out of their
calculations to find those who study it most
earnestly, returning, in a :
great measure from
"
the study of the Bible, to those very errors
which it was supposed to overthrow. None
read the Scriptures,
or meditate on them more
constantly and prayerfully than do Anglo-
Catholics ;
and yet passage after
passage opens
upon them daily with deeper Catholic mean
ings, with confirmations of every doctrine and
practice received by the Universal Cliui-cli,