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Corporate Re-union. 255
in the Catholic Church, you see at one period
at another
the Galilean Theory (as it is termed)
the Ultramontane in the ascendant. We can
remember when the latter was upheld by only
a few able writers like Lamennais, but re
jected by the overwhelming majority of Catholic
authors. We have lived to see it in the as
cendant ; but close observers tell us that a
reaction is once more setting in against it a
reaction, that will sweep
it from the face of
Catholicity. How much less then can we count
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upon the permanence of any particular Theologi
cal current in such a discordant body as the An
glican Church ? The chance is, humanly speak
ing, that the Catholic movement in the Anglican
Church, being itself a reaction, will meet with
a reaction : but suppose it does not. Then it
has to absorb into itself the Evangelical and the
CJ
Broad Church parties. When it has done this,
the Erastian party, which embraces all three,
and against which there is no reaction at present,
which ever has been, which is the foundation of
Anglicanism, must begin to change itself. We
may safely say all
parties ever have been
Erastian. Archbishop Whitgift, a Calvinist,
was an Erastian, as much opposed to the Puritans
as Laud was. And Bishop Hoadley, the re
presentative of the Broad Church, was of course
emphatically an Erastian. But let us keep to
the Catholic party : they were Erastian in Laud,