Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Rome and England will be united in one to oppose
it.”[16]
Of the movement, Pusey was the moral, as
Keble was the poetic, and Newman the intellectual
leader. Like the Methodist movement, it sprang
from the University of Oxford, with this difference,
that Wesleyanism strengthened the cause of
Protestantism, while Tractarianism undermined it.
Newman ever gave the date of July 14, 1833,
five days after he returned from Rome, as the
beginning of the movement. From the very first,
secrecy veiled a large measure of its activities. Its
promoters at the beginning grouped themselves
into a society called “The association of the
Friends of the Church.” All that went on under
cover will never be known until the judgment day.
The immense transformation, which was
wrought in the Church of England, enables us to
single out certain prominent activities as its cause.
The leaders banded themselves together with
aggressive determination to attack weak points
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