Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

“If you ask me,” he says, “how an individual
could venture, not simply to hold, but to publish
such views of a communion (i. e. the Church of
Rome) so ancient, so wide-spreading, so fruitful in
Saints, I answer that I said to myself, ‘I am not
speaking my own words, I am but following almost
a consensus of the divines of my own church.’...
Yet I have reason to fear still, that such language is
to be ascribed, in no small measure, to an
impetuous temper, a hope of approving myself to
persons I respect, and a wish to repel the charge of
Romanism.”[25]
Tract 80 created a widespread stir. The term
“Jesuitical” might have been heard on the lips of
Protestant England everywhere to express what
they considered to be the source of such
arguments.[26] But that stir was insignificant
compared with what was produced when Newman
wrote Tract 90. In fact, if we were to single out any
one outstanding event in the history of this
Romanizing Movement prior to the Revision of the
Bible in 1870, we would point to Tract 90 as that
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