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the mirk of Christ ' s presence upon them , in that they toiiHett for Christ , and mffer for him / " They suffer , we may add with a sincere groan , amidst teni of thousands and hundreds of thousands , sterling ; and are morally crucified by the agony they endure for the wants of their flock . Their names are ' Wonderful / Thus saitb the
tracts" This is faith , to look at things not as 9 een , bat as unseen ; to be as sure that the Bishop is Christ ' s appointed representative , ag jf wt actually saw upon his head a cloven tongue , like as of fire / ' * And again : "The Bishops witness Christ in their very name , for he is the true Bishop of our souls , as St . Peter says . They witness Chrisl in their station ;—there is but one Lord to save us , and there is but one Bishop in * each place . '"
Now in the first place we give them joy of the many cloven tongues like as of fire which have already lighted upon their heads , albeit of a very different nature to those with which they so modestly com p liment themselves . The logic of calling Christ a Bishop in order to shew that the Bishops are nominally Chritft , and lugging in St . Peter , neck and crop , to prove it , would be perfectly ludicrous if it were not irreverential and flisgusting .
We do not wonder that the Pope should compliment the good people of Oxford upon the sympathy of their respective creeds , nor that in the excess of his Great Papa-like care for their worldly well-to-do-someness he should caution them against the imprudence of open avowals . These are his * knowing " ' words .
" Knowing , for instance , the feeling which exists amongst your heretical countrymen , we cannot but think it imprudent that you should have used language so open as that which you have adopted , when you speak of duly ordained ministers " as intrusted with the keys of Heaven and Hell , and with the awful and mysterious gift of making the bread and wine Christ ' s body and blood . " f Again , you will awaken suspicion prematurely by your intimating , •• that to
administer the Lord a Supper to the dying and insensible , is not superstitious ;* ' as well as by your complaint , that a superstitious apprehension of resting in the Sacraments , has , alas , infected a large mass of men in your Communipn . "J This is a bad state of things ; but you rnuat be prudent in your censures . Avoid plainness of declaration ; it will produce suspicion and distrust of your teaching . In some respects , indeed , you have acted with prudence as far as this doctrine is
concerned . From the last extract , our readers will perceive the peculiar quietness of the sarcasm employed by the author of thi ^ s pamphlet . We think the leanness of wit which perhaps be has tarred his imagination to attain , is not so serviceable to iu *
* TimoU for the Times , No . X . p . 3 t Trmct , No > X . p . 4 . t Advertisement to the Second Volume of TrmcU .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/63/
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