Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
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them in an odious light, and seems to think
that there is no good left among us.* Still he
vain attempts at Ee-union proposed by Anglicanism to
Russian orthodoxy." He recommends its study to the
Bussians.
* "
Anglicanism has laid aside all Catholicity, we might
almost say, all Christianity;" p. 60. "The English will
not remain thus, and, thanks to the principle of free inquiry
laid down by Luther, will reach the extreme limit of
rationalism ;" p. 61.
" The [high] Church itself is only a
ramification among the numerous sects. The general
character of all these sects is a denial of the supernatural.
Eationalism has ended in the most absolute naturalism.
Nineteen out of twenty Anglicans have ceased to be Chris
tians : they do not retain even a gleam of faith ;" pp.
61, 62,, "For years baptism in the whole territory of the
British Isles has not perhaps been once validly given, since
the sacramental form ivas essentially altered ;" p. 63.
"
Among our neighbours beyond the Channel, Christianity
is perishing, faith is becoming extinct, and Anglicanism is
passing into pure rationalism ;" p. 73. He imputes to
us at this day, Henry VIII. s destruction of monasteries
(an example too readily followed in France, Spain, Italy) ;
p. 71, he says that our "
missionaries are much more
political agents than Apostles ; that they seek to propagate
English
influence as much as to extend the Christian
faith," so that "too often the preaching of the Gospel is
only a means of planting the British colours on a soil, and
neutralising the legitimate influence of any others;" p. 57.
Under this head he makes us responsible for the pro
ceedings (whatever they were), of the Madagascar Con
"
gregational Missionaries ; p. 58. He states that we
deny
"
the Real Presence," and will see in the ceremony of the
Supper only a "
sign and a symbol;" that we refuse to
Mary the title of Mother of GOD "
(though we receive the
"
"
Council of Ephesus) and proscribe prayers for the dead
(although even the law has owned the contrary) that we
;
reject tradition as an exponent of Scripture (p. 62) ; whereas
"
French Bishops, too, have felt how sacred the quod
"
ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus has been in our
eyes. He tells the Russians, that "according to an opinion
which has become almost a historical certainty, the Epis
copate has never existed in Anglicanism since Matthew
Parker and Barlow, origin of the English Episcopate, were