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Corporate Re-union. 237
any Protestant error, or to imagine that any
Re-union between the Anglicans and ourselves
could be brought about as long as they adhered
to any error condemned by the Catholic Church,
or until they should be willing to acknowledge
the Primacy of the Holy See.
From this correspondence it will be abun
dantly evident, that the highest authorities in
Rome approve
of the principle
of a Corporate
Re-union, provided
such a Union be carried
out on sound and orthodox principles. In fact,
if it were not for the senseless opposition
of
superficial men, who misunderstand or misre
present our object, it would seem superfluous
even to argue the point, for it is clear from the
whole history of the Catholic Church, that in
every period of her career it has been her hearty
desire, and her constant policy,
to reunite to her
communion, not merely individuals, but whole
bodies of separated Christians. And how other
wise is it possible for heresy and schism to be
rooted out, how else are all mankind to be
brought into the profession of the saving truths
of ? Catholicity If our zeal be confined to
individuals, and not extended to the bodies to
which they belong, we may reunite a few,
but schism and division will be perpetuated :
and Christians instead of becoming One, as
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CHRIST and His FATHER are One, will remain
in a condition of perpetual warfare and con-