Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

to furnish the facts well calculated to combat
confidence in the Protestant Bible. Skillfully step
by step, we are told, he led the Tractarian
Movement toward Rome.
By this time, Stanley informs us, the
Tractarians had become dominant at Oxford. Hort
is thankful that the High Church movement is
gaining ground in both Universities -- Oxford and
Cambridge.[32] Stopping the Tracts seemed like a
blow, but authorities recognize that it was a
contribution to success. Oxford still retains her
Romanizing tendencies, and many bishops of the
Church of England have wholly surrendered to
most of the Catholic positions which gained
ground, and some of the bishops without leaving
the Church of England, mentally have gone the
whole way of Rome. Even the Privy Council, the
highest court of appeal in the British Empire, did
not pronounce upon a very important case in a way
that would run directly counter to the Council of
Trent.[33]
Public sentiment was again aroused to intensity
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