Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
Ixxix
not concord but disharmony at once be want
ing in the truest charity to them and in faith
fulness to GOD, Who protected us from admitting
their errors. It is in the interests of true
charity that I am sure that they who most
intelligently value GOD S
gifts
to us, and
thankfully adore Him for giving them, and are
also best acquainted with the real character of
Lutheranism, would with me pray "May
GOD, Who brought to nought the building of
the tower of Babel, bring utterly to nought all
attempts
to connect us with the Scandinavian
bodies, so long as they retain the faith-destroy
ing Confession of Augsburg."
It was not in
any want of charity that the devout and loving
Bishop Andrewes prayed
"
for the Catholic
Church, its confirmation and increase ; the
Eastern, its deliverance and union ; the Western,
its restoration and pacification ;
the British, the
restoration of things lacking, the confirmation
of things remaining in her ;"* but that for
other bodies he only prays among those scat
tered or in error :
"
Gather those who are
scattered, bring back those who are astray,
gone
and join them to Thy Holy Catholic
and Apostolic Church."f Truth can never be
True charity bids us
contrary to true charity.
pray earnestly
to oar GOD for "the Re-union of
* Pieces quotidianse, p. 80, ed. Aug. Cath. t Ib. p. 122.