Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

288 Ritualism in its relation to He-union.
very meanest and the humblest, are, in some
real, true sense, kings and priests unto GOD,
even here upon earth.
It seems wearying to go into so many details
one after the other ; but I suppose it must be
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line upon line, line upon line ; precept upon
here a little and
precept, precept upon precept ;
there a little, here a little and there a little ;"
until the whole Anglican Church becomes
leavened with Catholic principles, and thus
once more Catholic in her practice. As the
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so-called Reformers seemed never to weary
of pulling down, so I suppose we ought never
to weary in our good and blessed work of trying
to build up.
We must show, over and over again until
people will heed us, that the things which I have
mentioned, and many besides, as Lights and
Eucharistic Vestments, Incense, Anointing the
sick with oil, and Reservation, are neither Roman
nor Greek, but Catholic as Catholic as Infant
baptism or Episcopacy ; and that we cannot, if
we would prosper,
differ in our practice from
the practice of the Universal Church of GOD,
east and west, north and south.
Above all let us be assured that the Roman
and Greek Churches cannot, if they would,
hold out the right hand of fellowship to us, so
long as we are uncatholic in our practice.
The Greek Church honours the name of