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may serve to procure the peace of all churches , so ardently wished for . Ca ^ e only ought to be taken , that she make no formal abjuration , and that difficult and intricate points of controversy be not imposed upon her -as articles of faith . It will be
sufficient to give her plain instructions . ' The professors then reply to various objections brought by Protestants against some distinguishing ten ets of the Roman Catholics , and declare themselves A * ever ready to answer other objections / ' though such controversies c < do not concern the
Princess of Wolfembuttel , whose business only is to continue in the simplicity of faith , which is \ the best . The rest belongs to the divines , among whom there are those in both persuasions , whose eyes God hath opened , so that they clearly perceive that the distance
between them is not so great as is commonly said . " Then after expresssing desires of a more entire union they conclude , " These are the wishes of all the professors of divinity of the University of Helmstadt , April 28 , 1707 . "
These divines might have found sotae authorities for the similarity between the Papal Church and Protestant Churches , especially the episcopal .. But there is a modern authority of no small weight given on a late occasion by a Prince and Peer in the British Senate for a very liberal
purpose , and , as appears from the debate , mncontroverted by any Peer , spiritual or temporal . I refer to the speech of the Duke of Sussex , April 21 , 1812 , in support of the Catholic claims . He thus points out the similarity between the churches of Rome and England .
* ' The greatest part of the tenets of both churches are so nearly allied , as to be considered , by other Protestant sects , as sisters of the same family , and ought therefore to be in constant harmony with each other . Though we have not the same number of
saqraments , yet , except one , we observe the forms of all the others , and though auricular confession is not enjoined it is strongly recommended . And even in our Office for the Visitation of the Sick the complete absolution of the Catholic Church * translated word for
word , is to be found . This same remark holds equally good with the greatest part of our' Service , Their Canon Law is still , in a grent mea-
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sure , therule of our judicatiofts * We have our spiritual consistorial courts decrees and ceremonies from them We have our subordinate church g ^ vernors , our primates , prelates ,
archbishops and bishops , deans , prebendaries , canons , and other di gnitariesdioceses , parishes , cathedrals and common churches , benefices , tithes , perquisitcs , Easter dues and free-will offerings . " M , Chron . Ap , 22 , 18 H P- 2 . Col . 4 .
I am reminded , on this occasion of a passage in the Life of Whitgift ( Svo , p . 105 ) . " At his first journey into Kent" ( 1589 ) as archbishop , " he rode to Dover , being attended with an hundred , at least , of his own servants , whereof there were forty gentlemen
in chains of gold . —At his entrance into the town there happily landed m intelligencer from Rome , of good part * and account , who wondered to see ^ an Archbishop of Canterbury , or Clergyman in England , so reverencedand
attended . But seeing him , upon the next Sabbath-day after in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury , attended upon by his gentlemen and servants , also by the dean , prebendaries , and preachers in their surplices and scarlet hoods , and heard the solemn
music , with the voices , and organs , cor * nets and sackbuts , he was overtaken with admiration , and told an English gentleman of very good quality , who then accompanied him , ( Sir Edward Hobby ) that they were led in great blindness in Rome , by our own nation , who made the people there believe that there was not in England ,
either archbishop , or bishop , or cathedral , or any church or ecclesiastica ] government . But , for his own part , he protested , that , unless it were in the Pope ' s chapel , he never saw a more solemn sight or heard a mote heavenly sound .
The declaration of King James , about the same time , Jias been often quoted . According to Calderwood , ( p . 256 ) he made a speech to the General Assembly at Edinburgh in 159 ®* while he was a young" man , and before he understood the value of the
maxim , " no bishop , no king . " f £ then said , " for our neighbour Kirk of England , their service Is an evilsaid mass in English , they want nothing of the mass , but the liftings . It is , however , unnecessary to 1 < # back 50 far for a justiflcation of " >«
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& £ fc Book-Worm . No . XX .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/22/
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