Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

of the English language. His appearance in
England in the midst of the violent excitement
occasioned by Tract 90, is described thus by
Palmer:
“Wiseman saw that there was an opening for
the circulation of that false and plausible reasoning
of Jesuitism in which he was an adept; skillful to
put a plausible face upon the worst corruptions, and
to instill doubt where there was no real doubt. He
was instantly dispatched to England as Vicar
Apostolic, to follow up the clue thus presented to
him. He forthwith set on foot the Dublin Review as
a means for reaching the class of minds at Oxford
with which he had come in contact.”[31]
Dr. Wiseman found on his hands the task of
welding together the Catholics of England, the
Catholics of Ireland, so unlike them, influential
Protestants of Catholic sympathies like Macaulay,
Stanley, etc., as well as the Romanizing Movement
in Oxford University. He was a textual critic of the
first rank, and assisted by the information
seemingly passed to him from Jesuits, he was able
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