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IRONICON:

A REPLY TO

AN EIRENICON,
BY THE EEV. E. B. PUSEY, D.D.,
Begius Professor of fiebrewt etc.

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FAITHFULLY AND FEARLESSLY ADDRESSED TO HIM,
AND TO
" ALL SOBTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN '' IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
" WHO PROFESS AND CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS."

BY

ANGLO-SAXON.

WITH AN APPENDIX AND NOTES.

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LONDON:
ARTHUR HALL and Co., 25, PA^lR^STER ROW.
BATH : GEO. SHORT (Late Ouveb), MILSOM STREET.

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IRONIC ON:
A REPLY TO
AN EIKENICON,
BY EEV. E. B. PUSEY, D.D.,
Regius Professor of Hebrew, etc.

FAITHFULLY AND FEARLESSLY ADDRESSED TO HIM,
AND TO
" ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN " IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE,
"WHO PEOFESS AND CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS."

ANGLO-SAXON. -V^-
WITH AN APPENDIX AND NOTES.

LONDON:
ARTHUR HALL and Co., 25, PATERNOSTER ROW.
BATH : GEO. SHORT (Late Oliver), MILSOM STREET.
MDCCCLXVI.

" No Peace with Rome." Bishop Hall.
" Yea, let God be true ; but every man a liar." Romans iii. 4.
" I am young, and ye are very old ; wherefore I was afraid,
and durst not shew you mine opinion. I said, Days should speak,
and multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit
in man : and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them under
standing. Great men are not always wise : neither do the aged
understand judgment. Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also
will shew tnine opinion. I said, I will answer also my part, I also
will shew mine opinion. For I am full of matter, the spirit within
me constraineth me. I will speak, that I may be refreshed : I will
open my lips and answer. Let me not, I pray you, accept any
man's person, neither let me give flatteriQg titles unto man. For I
know not to give flattering titles ; in so doing my Maker would
soon take me away." Job xxxii. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ; 17, 18 ; SO, 21, 22.
" I wish to God we had a little soldier's spirit in our Church.
But the Church of England will endure no chivalry, no dash, no
effervescing enthusiasm." Memoir and Letters of the late F. W.
Robertson, of Brighton.
" As a good soldier of Jesus Christ." 2 Timothy ii. 3.

The right of translating this into any language— living or dead— is freely
conceded to any man who will do so faithfully and honestly. Otherwise
[The Eight is Reserved.]

AN IEONICON.

Reverend Sir,
It is with some diffidence that I take up my pen to
address so veteran an ecclesiastic as you are known to be.
I trust that while I do so, in the spirit of the motto which
I have selected as the key-note of my epistle, " knowing
not to give flattering titles," I must bear in mind the noble
truth that the hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found
in the way of righteousness ! and that the work of righteous
ness shall be peace ; and the effect of righteousness, quiet
ness and assurance for ever. " Without partiality, favour,
or affection, so help me God," I proceed then to my task.
I must, in the first place, offer you my humble and
honest thanks in that you have done me — unwittingly, it
may be — a very great favour, by publishing your late
book, entitled with the plausible and scholarly name of
" Eirenicon." The term, as I understand it — for I am no
Grecian — means either Peace-making or Peace-offering.
A blessed and most honourable task, indeed, is that of
" Peace-Maker," provided always it be done in truth and
righteousness, with no sacrifice of principle, integrity, or
honour. " For the spirit of righteousness is sown in peace
of them that make peace."
I could not love sweet Peace so well,
Loved I not Truth yet more.
Your object, then, as I understand it, is primarily to bring
about a reconciliation, an Union between the Reformed
Church of England and the Church of Rome ; and what

you are pleased to term inter-communion with the Greek
Church. It is the former of these corrupt Churches that
will chiefly occupy my thoughts and remarks at present.
I have said above that you had conferred on me a great
favour. I will proceed to explain. For many years my
thoughts had been, now and again, turned to the subject of
that monstrous "Mystery of Iniquity" which has, for the
last eleven hundred years or more, made all the world
wonder, and oppressed and tyrannized over a large portion
of continental Christendom : lording it over God's heritage
in the most presumptuous and arrogant manner. Many
commentators had pointed me to various features of this
awful system, as indicating a startling likeness to the
Mystic Babylon of the Apocalypse, or " the Revelation of
Jesus Christ which God gave unto Him, to shew unto His
servant things which must shortly come to pass ; " and, as
you are well aware, a special blessing is pronounced upon
him " that readeth, and they that hear the words of this
prophecy." This blessedness it has been my lowly desire
to seek from Him " From whom all blessings flow ;"
and in connection also with the threefold blessing ; — 1st, of
the man whose transgression is forgiven ; whose sin is co
vered, and to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity ; 2nd,
that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not
the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies; 3rd, he that hath
the God of Jacob for his help, and whose hope is in the Lord
his God. In the earlier pages of your work, one is
refreshed and soothed with the suave and christian tone of
your pen — there is one small prophetic allusion which I will
presently notice — but gradually you do venture to warm up
a little with some feeble spark of latent love for the name
and honour of our dear Lord ; as you unfold, step by step,
the awful and dizzy height of impious and blasphemous
idolatry, worship, and adoration to which the Church of
Rome, by the mouth of her infallible head, has exalted that
" most highly favoured, graced, and blessed among women,"
" Mary, the mother of my Lord," (Luke i. 43) ; as it pleased

Him in His matchless condescension to be born of a woman,
in order that, by taking our nature upon Him, He might
redeem to Himself an universal Church, of which He is
Head over all things ; as also that through death He might
destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil ;
and open the kingdom of heaven to all believers. Won
drous, most wondrous condescension for Him who is God
and King over all, blessed for ever : that when He took upon
Him to deliver man, He did not abhor the Virgin's womb !
Well may angels and archangels and all the company of
heaven desire to look into these things ; this " without con
troversy great mystery of godliness, God manifest in the
flesh," and evermore adore, magnify, and glorify Him ; and
His Church on earth take up the song, " Thou only art
holy ; Thou only art the Lord ; Thou only, 0 Christ, with the
Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father ! "
But, Rev. Sir, as I proceed with the perusal of your
learned and erudite display of that which I have above
alluded to, the conviction is almost forced upon me, I am
" almost persuaded " that the Church of Rome, in her
present culmination to the very apex and zenith* of her
blasphemy and mystery — for even your own self seems to
begin to wonder and to exclaim, " Where will all this end?"
— is, can be no other, than " Mystery, Babylon the Great,
the Mother of fornications and abominations of the Earth."
Did not the Lord God of Israel of old proclaim in thunder-
tone that idolatry was as the sin of witchcraft ; and very
spiritual whoredom ? and can anything surpass or rival the
brazen-fronted impiety which your pages disclose of the
elaborated and systematized worship and adoration of the
meek, gentle, pure-minded Virgin, Mary of Nazareth ?
Reason almost reels, imagination is bewildered with the
terrible depiction.
But it is time to bear out my strong language, and I will
proceed to do so by statements and extracts from your
" Eirenicon." These shall be taken at random from
* " And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that
great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her
fornications." Rev. xiv. 8.

page 101 to 185. The " B. V." then— I adopt your own
abbreviation — is spoken of as " Co-Redemp tress " in that
great work of Redemption which our most blessed Lord
achieved and perfected when He offered up Himself once,
an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling
savour, having obtained eternal redemption for us. A
minute parallel is drawn of the prerogatives and offices of
Jesus and Mary. Souls are said to be born of God and of
Mary. To the pure I know that all things are pure, f but
surely the purest and chastest mind must recoil with a
shudder from dwelling upon the thought involved in such an
intensely nicked — I know no other term for it — proposition.*
She is called the Centre of Creation — the complement of
the Trinity. I ask you, Sir, as a reasonable and reasoning
man of devout feeling, can anything be enunciated of the
unfathomable and ineffable mystery of " the Holy, Blessed,
and Glorious Trinity, Three Persons in One God, from ever
lasting to everlasting," as being either added to or subtracted
from, without absolute and unmistakeable blasphemy ? She
is declared to be co-present in the holy Communion — as
feeding with her own flesh ; one expression is, I think (for
I have not your work by me) that as they receive the flesh
and blood of Christ, so do they also the flesh and lac of
Mary. Forgiveness and grace are said to be given more
easily by Mary than Jesus ; albeit the whole testimony of
Holy Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, teems and
abounds with expressions of the deepest tenderness, yearning
compassion, and intense love of Jesus towards us hapless,
lost, and ruined sinners, thus, " I, even I, am He that com-
forteth you ;" " As one whom his mother comforteth, so will
I comfort you ;" " Can a woman forget her sucking child that
she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ?
Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee ;" "I have
loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving-
* Should it be argued by the sceptic, that a similar objection applies to the
revealed mystery of " the Holy Nativity," I reply at once :— No, the objection does
not hold ; for " The word of the Lord is very pure." That is God's truth ; the other
is man's fiction.

kindness have I drawn thee;" and those world-embracing
words—" God so loved the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life ;" " Come unto Me, all ye
that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
And again, as I was reading only to-night in the ix. Matthew,
" Son be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven thee;" v. 2.
"Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee
whole;" v. 22. Who says the Lord Jesus is not willing to re
ceive sinners, and to eat with them ? Who ? He is a liar :
and such is a hell-spawned and hell-forged lie. And you show
how that the Church of Rome, with the falsehood and deceit
that is ingrained, imbedded, incorporated into her whole sys
tem, puts in the place of that gracious and compassionate
" Me," the Virgin Mary, as 'possessing more tenderness
and sympathy than He who laid down His life that His
sheep should never perish ! Reverend Sir, do you not
recall the solemn and awful denunciation and judgment on
" Whosoever loveth or malteth a lie?" and also that " no lie is
of the Truth?" Again, the adoration to Mary is described as
being the same as to God, a parody of the sublime opening
of our Litany being adapted to her thus — this is given in
a foot-note at p. 108 : —
Mary, Daughter of the Father, \
Mary, Mother of the Son, L Give us light.
Mary, Spouse of the Holy Ghost, J
Again, she is called " the throne of Grace " — is spoken of
"as having bruised the serpent's most poisonous and cruel
head." A Mr. Palmer (is he a pervert?) suggests that the
Lord's Prayer, Te Deum, and Psalter, and all daily offices
should be accommodated to the worship of the Virgin Mary,
ex gr., " Our Lady, who art in heaven," &c. Again, "the
wicked are to be slain with the breath of her mouth " (Bpp.
of Ferrara and Pampeluna). " She is to complete the con
quest of the infernal serpent " (p. 145). She is spoken of as
"having risen again on the third day;" "as Christ is the
first-fruits of them that slept, so is she ; " " as Christ was
taken to heaven in the body, so also was she" (p. 163) ; and

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at p. 138, the Bishop of Bova is quoted as writing thus to
the Bishop of Rome, " Glorify the Mother of God, that the
Mother of God may glorify thee;" and the Virgin is
supposed to answer by a voice from heaven, " I have glorified
thee, and will glorify thee again." And to sum up all, " An
Age of Mary " is predicted or hoped for, when, if possible
— if possible, indeed ! — still higher honour, veneration, and
adoration shall be paid to her. It is literally sickening,
revolting, to have to copy out this tissue of unmitigated
blasphemy and impiety; and this all the more that the
devout mind feels an emotion of deepest gratitude to God,
who, in His wisdom, has been pleased to cast a veil of sweet
reticence over the whole subject — a merely casual allusion
now and then occurring in the whole Gospel narrative to
that most blessed among women, the most touching instance
being the inimitably pathetic scene and utterance on Calvary,
when the dying Redeemer consigns His mother, according to
the flesh, to the care of the beloved disciple. " And from
that hour that disciple took her to his own home." And
surely every devout Catholic — for I call myself by that noble
and soul-expanding name — not Anglo-, not Greeko-, not
Romo-, but simply and comprehensively Catholic — may be
permitted to enshrine her sweet and pure and gentle remem
brance in an inner chamber of his heart, without rendering
or giving to her the glory and honour due unto God alone.*
" I am the Lord ; that is my Name, and my glory will I not
give to another. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall
be filled with the Glory of the Lord. His Name alone is
excellent (margin ' exalted '), His Glory is above the earth
and heaven. Wherefore God hath highly exalted Him and
given Him a name which is above every name ; that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and in earth,
and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father ;" and
our matchless inimitable English Communion Service takes
up and re-echoes the theme : " For thou only art Holy, Thou
only art the Lord, Thou only, 0 Christ, with the Holy
Ghost, art most high in the Glory of God the Father."
* See Apf- .":. '¦ ~: ~" '

I will now proceed, Reverend Sir, to the next point upon
which you have also thrown much concentrated light, viz.,
the infallibility and supremacy of the Pope, or as I prefer at
present to call him, the Bishop of Rome. This brings me
to your postscript ; I shall have to recur again to the body
of the " Eirenicon." You speak of it thus, or rather they do —
you merely quote or elucidate—" It is an infallibility equal
in extent to that of the Divine Scriptures; so that each
sentence, however incidental, becomes like the Word of God
a sacred text" (p. 303). In a foot-note at p. 304, we have,
" Cardinal Patrizi writing to the Roman Catholics of
Pius *R^'s own diocese (I am glad we have come to that
expression, ' diocese,' I will touch upon it anon) by his
express sanction and under his own eye, claims for the
Encyclical, and consequently for every like expression of the
Pope's mind, ' to be the very Word of God, to be received
upon pain of forfeiting heaven.' " Now, if this be not the
counterpart, the express image of him who " opposeth and
exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of
God, shewing himself that he is God ; " imagination fails
to conceive what that manifestation may culminate in. A
remarkable utterance of one of the predecessors in the
episcopate of Rome deserves insertion here. It is taken
from your work — indeed, I think that my Bible, Book of
Common Prayer (which next to my beloved Bible* I do
most highly prize), and your Eirenicon, are the three
principal sources, for this my own little work, which I have
modestly and playfully entitled, as you will have seen,
" Ironicon." " Whosoever," the great Gregory writes, " I confidently

* My dear old Bible was given me by my sweet and honoured mother about
twenty years ago now, when I was returning to India to re-join the regiment to
which I had the honour to belong; and it has been my constant companion ever
since. " Oh! how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Thy testimonies
are my delight, and (the men of my counsel,) my counsellors." It has this on its
fly-leaf, written with her own dear hand : — " With his Mother's best love and
blessing. Numbers vi. 24, 25, 26. ' The Lord bless thee, and keep thee : The Lord
make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee : The Lord lift up His

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affirm that whosoever calls himself or desires to be called
Universal Priest (Bishop) in his pride goes before Antichrist,
— whoever he is who desires to be called sole Priest (Bishop)
he lifts himself up above all other priests." From p. 308 to
p. 314 this question of the infallibility of the Bishop of Rome
is very fully and ably dealt with. Surely the present incum
bent of that see answers to Gregory's description. And it
would be, perhaps, a charitable act on your part, Sir, if you
really are in treaty with him, directly or indirectly, as I much
fear that some of your proceedings are of rather an indirect
and crooked character — were you to suggest to him to look
more minutely into the affairs of his own diocese and not
lord it over God's fair heritage ; he has been so pertinacious
ly meddling and intermeddling with other sees for about
1200 years, that his own has fallen into a somewhat rickety
and shaky condition. My language is not nearly so strong,
powerful, and emphatic as some of the excellent homilies of
our own grand old Church ; as how indeed should it be,
seeing that I am no clerk; but a simple unknown, and
unlettered lay member of her communion?
Having thus exposed, from your own pages, the
elaborated system of Mariolatry, and the presumptuously
assumed infallibility of the Bishop of Rome ; I proceed to
countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.'" This twice threefold blessing,
Mother dear, rest upon thee, on thy gentle head and heart. Yea, the Lord of Peace
Himself give thee peace always by all means, and be thy " Eirenicon." I also find
in the fly-leaf this beautiful verse from divine old George Herbert : —
" 0 Book ! infinite sweetness, let my heart
Suck every letter, and a honey gain
Precious for any grief, in any part,
To cheer the heart, to mollify all pain."
And, " A glory gilds the sacred page
Majestic as the sun ;
It sheds a light o'er every age,
It sheds, but borrows none."
From the scarcely less divine Cowper. The only book which those two noble-minded
men and martyrs— Colonel Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly— had with them
to beguile the weary hours of their protracted and cruel captivity in Bokhara was a
small Prayer-Book. See an interesting notice in " Good Words " for January, 1865,
of Captain Conolly, by Kaye.

the " false decretals of Isidore" and the decretum of Gratian ;
and I hope, by the aid of your, to me, most valuable pages,
to be able to prove that the poor paralytic old Pope — I
speak of the popedom of course in its official character —
has literally not a leg, not even an episcopal toe, to stand
upon. These false decretals were written, you state, after
the 7th century, and were attributed to the Popes of the first
four centuries. I will quote your own ipsissima verba : "The
forgery of the decretals after they had passed for true
during eight centuries, was owned by all men in the Church
of Rome, but the system built upon this forgery (the italics
are your own) abides still " (p. 256). So, then, this whole
monstrous ecclesiastical system is literally founded, based, built
upon a Lie ; the house is not built even upon the sand, for
sand has some floating, shifting substance in it. And, as an
old Chinese proverb has it, "Though a lie may have wings and
can fly all round the world, it has no legs, and therefore it can
not stand." But a wiser than a Chinese barbarian philosopher
has said " that no lie is of the truth ; " and yourself is
probably acquainted with the final fate and destiny of
"whosoever loveth or maketh a lie." Now, if forgery be
not the making of a lie, I am at a loss to conceive what
other process be required; for, as your own extract from
Fleury expresses it, " false decretals are the most mis
chievous of all forgeries " (p. 255). The temporal power — or
shall we call it the left leg of the Popedom ? — is by one stroke
of your own pen, not merely crippled, but actually cut off,
amputated, thus, " the temporal power is equally derived
from a forgery, the donation of Constantine." One may
almost, in fancy, hear the poor old man (officially considered)
as he is dancing his one-legged ecclesiastical hornpipe,
somewhat after the fashion of that one-legged Italian
dancer, who was lately hopping about amongst us on his
light fantastic toe, exclaiming, with lugubrious comicality,
" Oh ! save me, save me from my friends." And you
would pipe to us English men and women, members of a
purified and reformed Church, to dance to this same
Italian hurdy-gurdy, hurly-burly music ! But, to lay

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aside all levity— for it is indeed a grim and ghastly joke,
and one not calculated to yield much ghostly comfort to any
one who is, or has been, involved in the building up of this
mystery of iniquity — I ask you, Reverend Sir, upon what
possible or conceivable ground your own mind sees no
insuperable difficulty in a re-union between such a Church —
if Church there be — and the pure and reformed Church of
England, to which you profess to belong, and of which you
also profess to be a devoted and dutiful son ; that Church
being — as we, I trust, mutually agree, founded and based
upon — in the main, " the foundation of the Apostles and
prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner
stone," and one of whose ineradicable articles runs thus :
" Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation ;
so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved
thereby is not required of any man, that it should be believed
as an article of faith, or be thought necessary to salvation.'1''
(Article vi.) Noble and sound and most wholesome words ;
worthy of every Englishman's cordial acceptation and sub
scription ! With regard to the primacy of the Bishop of
Rome, I myself, Sir, have very grave suspicions ; it is true
that I am but a recruit in the ranks of Christ's Church
militant here on earth, by the side of such an ecclesiastical
veteran as yourself; but at the same time, as every recruit
is taught to look well to the keeping of his arms and
accoutrements, clean, polished, and ready for use, so I do
endeavour to look a little into these most necessary matters
as myself to become some day, " by the grace of God," a
veteran also, and to " purchase to myself a good degree and
great boldness in the faith, which is in Christ Jesus." A
dignitary of our own grand old Church, a man of no mean
authority, states emphatically of the Church of Rome, " It
was certainly not founded by an Apostle." " That he (Peter)
did not found the Roman Church is plain from the above
consideration, and is conceded by many of the ablest among
modern Romanists." * Now, Sir, I like the manly, plain,
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honest tone of those few, yet pregnant words. And remem
ber, that they are the words of an equally learned and
discreet minister of God's Word with yourself, to whom my
beloved Church permits me to go to open my grief, that I
may receive— not the benefit of absolution, for that I do
verily believe I have already received from the princely
condescension and grace of " the great High Priest, that is
passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God," adored,
magnified, and glorified be His most gracious and glorious
Name for ever ! — but a little " ghostly counsel and advice to
the guiding of my conscience, and avoiding of all scruple
and doubtfulness " on this most debated point ; and I have now
the satisfaction and peace of assuring you that I am no more
troubled with a shadow or ghost of a doubt as to the pretensions
and presumptions of tbe Bishop of Rome being without the
most infinitesimal grain or globule of foundation in Reve
lation, faith, or reason. But yet more, I am morally certain
that the Bishop of Rome is not the successor of the " Peter,
an Apostle of Jesus Christ " for this plain and unmis-
takeable reason ; you will recollect that when that great and
noble man was sent by a direct and express revelation and
message from our Lord to a certain man called Cornelius, of
the band called the Italian (the italics are mine), a devout
man, and one that feared God, with all his house, and gave
much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway ; that, on
his arrival, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet and
worshipped, but Peter took him up saying, " Stand up ; I
myself also am a Man." My " orders," sir, are not to
" speak evil of dignities ; " these are the orders of the Great
Captain of our Salvation to me, his lately enlisted recruit
and soldier, through His Apostle Peter, but in my order-
book I nowhere find that I am not to speak plainly of
indignities. Now, I am told that it is a custom at Rome,
when a stranger is admitted to the august presence of the
Pontifex Maximus — a heathen title, be it observed — he is
permitted and privileged to kiss the pontifical episcopal toe !
I hold this to be a nasty, obscene, degrading indignity to
humanity and to Christendom ; an insult to God, who in His

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gracious wisdom and love originally made man in His own
image ; to the " Son of God," who became " the Son of Man "
in His gracious condescension, to restore that sin-ruined and
defaced image ; and to the Holy Ghost, who graciously under
takes to renew that image in the inner man ; and lastly to
men " which are made after the similitude of God ; " and,
upon this ground, I repeat, I am morally certain that the
Bishop of Rome is not the successor of Peter ; and what
ever keys he may possess jingling and dangling at his
pontifical girdle, he most certainly has not " the keys of the
kingdom of heaven."
But, Sir, if you really have been appointed clerical
ambassador, — I fear you are not in this matter a legate
for Christ — in the arranging the preliminaries of a treaty
of " peace-at-any-price," with the corrupt churches of
Rome and Greece — a new triple holy (or unholy, as the
case may be) alliance — tell that old red papal bull,*
tell him that " the Virgin, the daughter of England
(her Church) hath despised thee, laughed thee to scorn ;"
and that the Lion of England (her Protestant consti
tution of Church and State, — Queen, Lords, Commons,
and People) hath, in the name and strength of the Lion of
the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, " the Lamb as it had
been slain," " shaken the head at thee ; " and if that be not
enough, add yet this one word — tell him that I, an unlettered,
insignificant, unknown Englishman, by the grace and truth
of God in Christ Jesus— -free-horn, free-hred, and free-
taught, who am scarcely a babe in Christ, or a suckling
at my Mother- Church's breasts, do calmly and deliberately
in the name of Him who is God, and King, and Priest over
all, blessed for ever —

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"Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews,"
(In Hebrew, Greek, Latin)
* In your Eirenicon this singular expression occurs, " Red was the color of the
Pope."

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JEHOVAH, ADONAI, ELOHIM,
0EO2, DEUS,*
Whose Name is Wondeiifix, Counsellor, Mighty Gon, Father ofthe
hvisuLAsTiNG Age, the Piunce of Peace : —
to Whom all the apostles and prophets give witness, that
through His Name, whosoever believeth in Him, shall receive
remission of sins ; who is Head over all to the Church,
which is His body, who is set at God's right hand in the
heavenlies ; far above all principality, and power, and might,
and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in
this world, but also in that which is to come ; the Name
which is above every name — alone excellent and exalted
(Ps. cxlviii. 13) — at which Name of Jesus every knee shall
yet bow in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth ; and
every tongue shall confess that He is Lord to the glory of
God the Father, than which there is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must be saved : in that
" Name of Jesus of Nazareth,"

" Our Redeemer from everlasting," f
The Great God-Man,
" The Mighty Hero,"
And in His ' pure and immaculate valour,'
Herewith I utter, fulminate, and publish forth
Throughout all Christendom — East, West, South, North,
My first and last tremendous Anglo-Saxon Bull,
Rome from her seven-hilled usurpation downward pull.
My last couplet, you will observe, is in Alexandrinian
metre ; and this I have advisedly done, seeing that my small
anti-papal bull is issued in the twenty-ninth year of the
reign of Alexandrina Victoria, by the grace of God, Queen
* The Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one :
the Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal: and such as the Father is, such is the Son:
and such is the Holy Ghost :— Incomprehensible I
t See Isaiah lxiii. 16. Text and margin.

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of England, Ireland, and Scotland, one Great Britain (with
her manifold appanages), by the same grace, " Defender of
the Faith," whom may the Prince of the kings of the
earth ever have in His most holy keeping ; and in the one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-sixth year of " our Lord"
(for I have ever preferred, boy and man, my own nervous,
racy English language to all dead or living Latin), and I
date it in the first day of the first month,* with my own
hand, in my quiet room, in this ancient and modern Brito-
Romo f-English city, which some call " the Queen of the
West." God, and my Lord Jesus Christ, and my own
conscience, being my only witnesses ; albeit, I am not
certain but that holy and elect angels! may not be eye
witnesses. There is no new thing underneath the sun,
What has been, is, and shall again be done,
Till brave old Sol's last bridegroom course be run.
Old Rome shall totter, old Byzantium shake,
All nations reel like drunken men, and quake,
England, if true to God, unmoved remain — §
Old Israel her long-lost land retake ;
Zion rejoice, laugh, shout, and sing again
Jehovah-Jesus quickly comes to reign.
And this leads me by an easy and almost imperceptible
transition to examine, Reverend Sir, your prophetical views
above alluded to, which I fear will not be found to be much
sounder than those of another learned, reverend doctor and
* 1st January, 1866.
t See Rev. J. Earle's interesting little work, ¦' A Guide to the Knowledge of
Bath, Ancient and Modern. London: Longman, Green, Roberts, and Green.
t See Notes and Appendix (a) " The Ministry of Angels."
§ I am no prophet, but an unknown, earnest lay member of the Reformed
Protestant Church of England, by the grace and providence of God established in
this great country and kingdom. It is simply a matter of cause and effect,
deducible from God's everlasting laws of ¦ loving - kindness, judgment, and
righteousness,' which I glory in understanding and knowing that He delights to
exercise in the earth. " England, if true to God, unmoved remain."

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minor prophet of our day, who has published many volumes
upon this interesting and most profitable study,* and seems
as partial to dates as the poor unlettered Bedouin, whose
simple fatuous creed is briefly summed up in the mis
taken formula, " Allah-il-Allah, and Mahomet is his
prophet." I fear, by an examination of your view, that
your credulity will be found to be greater than your faith ;
and that your readings on prophecy are not clearer than
some of your rather dubious and hazy theological tenets and
ecclesiastical crotchets. But let us see. You write (p. 65) :
" We believe the promise to have been fulfilled, ' neither
shall they learn war any more,' although peace has been
in these last days the exception among Christians."
" The promise has been fulfilled, ' neither shall they
learn war any more.' ' A month or two since, I happened
to be looking over our arsenals and ship-building docks
in Portsmouth harbour; I was struck with the energy,
activity, and skill that met the eye on every hand : iron-
cased armour-plated vessels receiving their mighty shields,
driven and riveted into and around their huge oak-ribbed
sides, to go forth, animated by the puffing, panting, snorting
breath of the great steam-demon, as leviathans of the deep
— our Black Princes, Minotaurs, and Royal Sovereigns — on
their defensive or offensive careers. I read of the enormous
army and navy estimates of my own and other countries :
I recall the sanguinary horrors of the late fratricidal war
across the Atlantic —
Man thirsting for his brother's blood,
His brother man abhorring.
I hear constantly of discoveries and inventions in practical
science, of new weapons of destruction — rifle-bored artillery
of great and small calibre, from the twelve ton monster to
the pocket revolver. And I ask myself, can Dr. Pusey' s
prophetical interpretation be safer, truer, sounder than his
* The Rev. Doctor is, I rejoice to think, one with us in our common and most
holy faith, albeit certain vain fellows speak of him as the Rev. Dr. Coming
Tribulation. A fig, good Doctor, for your dates ! B

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theological or ecclesiastical teaching ? Much as I yearn for,
nay view the whole creation groaning and travailing together
in pain until that glorious and blessed era, those times of
the restitution of all things, I must yield to the plain and
palpable evidences of my senses in this case, and sorrowfully
admit that the time is not yet. Still, as a Christian and an
Englishman, I am glad to see my country prepared, for truly
we know not what a day may bring forth of national, civil,
or theological strife ; and some great conflict, some Arma
geddon battle seems impending when every man and every
christian may well buckle to his armour and look to his
weapons that they be keen, true, and well tempered. For
we may find ourselves in the position of David of old when
he wrote "lam for peace, but they are for war." But if it
should be thought that my little Anti-pajjal Bull savoureth
of presumption, I would ask on whose side such a charge
really lieth ? Whether on that of a man who believes
that God will, in His own time and manner, fulfil His own
words ; or on that of one who has dared to pronounce a
judgment and authoritative decision on a subject upon which
God's Holy Word has retained the most marked silence ; and
which, if any fair deduction be lawful concerning it,
is an absolute falsehood ; for in the divinely recorded lineage
of our Lord according to the flesh, there occur the names of
some not merely common sinners, bnt Startiisgryajis.cpnu^n
trsss-; and though I rejoice and glory in the thought of His
miraculous and immaculate conception, and most pure, holy,
and sinless life, I fear that the dogma of the immaculate
conception of the Virgin Mary is but a blasphemous and
impious fiction, as far at least as a fallen fallible and him
self sin-stained mortal, such as the Bishop of Rome or any
other Bishop whosoever, can presume to pronounce. " The
secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those
things which are revealed, belong unto us and to our
children for ever." There is one more feature in this dark
and terrible picture, which I think will go far to complete
the fulness, the thorough development of " the man of sin "
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no means the least of the monstrous and hideous deformi
ties of which I have spoken. You have not yourself classed
it in the category of Rome's foibles, as perhaps in your too
sickly sentimental charity, you may term them. And
as you have not mentioned it, I know not in what cen
tury, nor by whose daring and sacrilegious hand this deed
was done. I allude to the entire defacement and erasure
from the first table of God's holy decalogue of one whole
commandment ; and the dividing in the second of another,
which never so sounded forth from the midst of the
flames and thunders of Sinai, the mount that might be
touched, and that burned with fire, enveloped in blackness,
and darkness and tempest. To break one, even the least of
these commandments is enough to stamp any one of us as
a man of sin ; for all unrighteousness, even the thought of
foolishness, is sin, " and whosoever shall keep the whole law,
and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." But to
add unto or divide these God-engraven commands is, when
taken in conjunction with the other features which your own
hand has so ably delineated, enough to stamp and brand
the mystery of iniquity of Rome, capped and crowned with
the late dogma and encyclical, with the full and complete
seal and stigma of the man of sin. Oh ! if it be so,
Reverend Sir, let me beseech you for your own peace
sake, present and future, and all other, my brethren and
countrymen ; if Rome be " Mystery, Babylon the Great,
the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the
Earth," touch not the golden cup of her filthiness and sorcery;
she is well nigh drunken even unto death ; in one day and in
one hour, known indeed only to Him with whom one day
is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day —
shall her plagues come and her judgments, and she be made
desolate ;* " come out of her, my people, that ye be not par-
* There is a common proverb to this effect, " Rome was not built in a day." But
I believe that, in one day and in one hour, shall Babylon the Great be cast down
never to rise again; her plagues and her judgment shall come. Of that day and
hour no man doubtless knoweth ; but if it be so that Rome Papal be Apocalyptic
Babylon, then, again, I repeat the earnest, anxious cry, " Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.''

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takers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."
We know that the foolishness of God is wiser than men,
and the weakness of God is stronger than men. And that
He oftentimes is wont to choose " the foolish things of the
world to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the
world to confound the things which are mighty ; and base
things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God
chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought things
that are ; that no flesh should glory in His presence." And
therefore it may prove that an Englishman's thunder, if it
uttereth its voice in the name of the glorious God, whose
voice is powerful and full of majesty ; breaking the cedars of
Lebanon ; dividing the flames ; shaking the wilderness of
Kadesh ; and is upon the waters ; — may be as true as the
last thunder-peals from the Vatican, uttered in his own
name by a Roman or Italian bishop, who may perchance
never yet have worshipped or called upon the name of the
One Only Great and Holy Father, in spirit and in truth,
through the intercession of " the One Mediator between
God and men — the man Christ Jesus."
Finally, on this subject I would guard against any
misunderstanding of my meaning. In the above remarks,
I have had only and solely in view the Bishop of
Rome in his official character and position as Pope,
seated, I fear, on the throne of iniquity, Satan's seat.
From my soul I do pity — so far as that pity be in
subordination to the glory and honour due to my Lord
and King alone — Pius IX., and any and every man called to
that most slippery place, and most uneasy and unenviable
old arm chair. I do pity him from my soul ; and I myself
profess to hold the one Catholic faith, once delivered to
the saints, to believe in " One Catholic Apostolic Church,"
which is simply and comprehensively composed of —
Every creature in all the world, Jew or Gentile, English,
Greek, or Roman (" barbarian, Scythian, bond, or free"), who
has been, or is, led of the Spirit through the preached
Gospel, orally or written, to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
alone for salvation, pardon, and peace : —

Every Old Testament saint who through the same Spirit,
by the teaching of type, shadow, or symbol, has so believed ;
— and Every man, woman, and child who shall so believe, to
all future age, till time shall be no more.
Such, Reverend Sir, is my universal Catholicity ;
broad, I think, as the "wide, wide world," and which
will include a great multitude which no man can number
of " the few chosen unto life." I further believe in the one
Spirit ; the one hope of our calling ; the one Lord ; and
one God and Father of all, Who is above all and through
all, and in you all. And in that one baptism, which is not
outward in the flesh, but is " that of the heart in the spirit,
not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men but of God."
And while I make this plain profession and confession of
my faith before God and man, I would desire not to think of
myself more highly than I ought to think; but soberly,
according as God hath dealt to me the measure of faith ;
knowing that unto every one of us is given grace according
to the measure of the gift of Christ. And would seriously,
earnestly, and affectionately ask all my brethren in the
Roman Church, " Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the
faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates ? "
And if He be indeed in you, and in me, then, and then only,
can there be any real genuine union and communion, or
intercommunion. " And as many as walk according to this
rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of
God." Still bearing in mind the apostolic injunction not to
speak evil of dignities, I would offer a word of advice and
counsel to that arch-pervert Dr. Manning,* of whom, and
others who have followed or been seduced by him, I would
say, " they went out from us, but they were not of us ; for
if they had been of us, they would have continued with us ;
but they went out that they might be made manifest that
they were not all of us." One or two earnest and noble-
minded men who had been for a while deceived, have, I
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rejoice to hear, come back again. All honour to them ; may
they remain firm and steadfast henceforth. I can, Sir,
entertain feelings of respect for honest-minded members of
the Roman Communion who have been born and brought up
within her pale and atmosphere ; for I well know the mighty
force of habit, education, and the immense influence which
the conduct and converse of those who have the charge of us
in our early days exert over us in all after life. But for men
and women of education, reasonable beings brought up in
the healthy fold and nursery of the Church of England,
deliberately to leave her green and sweet pastures, and still
waters of quietness, for the arid and parched and miasma-
poisoned Campagna, and turbid, yellow, tortuous streams of
Rome : this, Sir, is to me so incomprehensible, so inexplica
ble, that I can only solve the enigma by the light of Holy
Scripture itself : Eheu ! Eheu ! I fear me the secret of it
must be " because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved." With regard to Dr. Manning
and " the great swelling words of vanity" of a late utterance
of his, he, having again put his neck under the yoke and
thraldom of Rome, is scarcely a competent person to speak
on the sacred subject of liberty. Liberty ! What knoweth
he of "the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free?"
" If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed; and
ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free ; "
for " where the Lord the Spirit (marginal reading) is, there is
liberty." And I trow there is little of that God-breathed
and inspired atmosphere in the fumes and smoke and mists
of Rome's spiritual dungeons and dark places ; holds of every
foul spirit ; cages of every unclean and hateful bird. I feel
thoroughly justified, myself, in withholding from him the
title of Archbishop. Indeed I have some suspicious doubts
whether our own (arch)-Bishops of Canterbury and York
would not be more en regie with the primitive apostolic
church without it, for I see, Sir, in your pages that it was
the Bishop of Alexandria who first assumed the title of arch-
bishop ;" and that " in the first centuries, even the name of
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question may be referred to the Court of Arches, or a conclave
or oecumenical council, or an holy convocation of our eccle
siastical archaaologists for thorough sifting, ventilation, and
investigation to clear away all its ecclesiological cobwebs and
incrustations. But of Dr. Manning's absolutely unwarrant
able claim I have not a shadow of doubt, for I read in the
xxxvii. Article of the Church of England, the plain emphatic
statement, " the Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this
realm of England."* This is treated of more fully and elabo
rately in its legal aspect — -though not more authoritatively —
in the fundamental principles and bases of our Church and
State Constitution. (See letters in " The Constitution"
which also are addressed to you, Sir, though with more
force than my simple and playful Ironicon.) There
fore, my advice to him is, through you, to look a little
more minutely into the invalidity of his own " orders "
before he attempts to rectify, or nullify, or terrify those of
our own " Bishops, presbyters, and deacons " upon whom
may the great High Priest and Head over all things to His
Church ever pour down " the healthful Spirit of His Grace,
and the continual dew of His blessings, and upon all
congregations committed to their charge ; and ever il
luminate them with true knowledge and understanding of
His Word ; that both by their preaching and living they may
set it forth and shew it accordingly. And further, as it
hath pleased our heavenly Father to purchase to Himself an
Universal Chm-ch by the precious blood of His dear Son ;
may He mercifully look upon the same ; and at this and at
all times so guide and govern their minds (the Bishops and
pastors of His flock) that they may lay hands suddenly on no
* There was some excuse for poor foolish Wiseman, for he was half a Spaniard,
and knew no better. But for this man, calling himself an Englishman, there is
not the same excuse. Who is this pompous and haughty ecclesiastic that he
should thus defy and insult the Church of the Living God — that purified branch
which His own right hand hath planted — established, methinks, by grace, provi
dence, and law, in this free and Protestant England? How long are the rulers of
this great truth-emancipated kingdom going to permit him and the poor old man
at Rome to mock and set at nought the fundamental laws of the realm ? Perhaps,
some silent member will bring in a small bill this next session to settle, or at least
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man, but faithfully and wisely make choice of fit persons to
serve in the sacred ministry of His Church. And to such as
shall be ordained to any function may He give His grace and
heavenly benediction : that both by their life and doctrine
they may set forth His glory and set forward the salvation of
all men." There, Reverend Sir, I hold that to be a "form
of sound words," which, if we only " hold it fast in faith and
love which is in Christ Jesus," according to undoubted
Apostolic injunction, " we shall," as was said at the first
general council of the Church held in Jerusalem, at which
James presided, touching certain questions of that day about
which there had been no small dissension and disputation,
" do well." The God of Love grant it may be so. My
counsel, Sir, upon the subject which is now occupying your
own, the Bishop of Oxford, Count Orloff, and the Church
Union Society's deliberation is this : Exhort those two most
corrupt Churches — Greek and Roman — thoroughly and radi
cally to purge, purify, and reform themselves after the
pattern and standard of the Primitive Church of Jerusalem ;
after Christ, and not after the traditions of men, and the
rudiments of the world and its weak and beggarly elements.
Let us do this also thoroughly with our own beloved
National Zion and with the unanimous decision and deter
mination of the whole episcopal bench — for we sorely need
it, as I hope shortly to shew ; and then, when these reforms
are manifestly and thoroughly carried out, this, at present
vain dream, and which will doubtless melt
"Into air, thin air;
And like the baseless fabric of a vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ;
And like an insubstantial pageant fade, and
Leave not a rack behind,"
may become a divinely sanctioned and inspired reality,
which the Church Triumphant may look down upon with
admiring recognition and sympathy, if so be the things on
earth are visible to the heavenlies.
It is really refreshing, Sir, to meet at last with something

iii your pages in which I do most cordially coincide and agree
with you. It may be as well to tell you here that one good
result — personally speaking— that the perusal of the
Eirenicon led to was the stirring me up to enrol my small
and unknown name in the lists of " the Evangelical
Alliance " and " Protestant Alliance." Here let me re
spectfully suggest to the Bishop of Oxford, and indeed to
the whole episcopal bench, as well as to yourself, Reverend
Sir, the advisability of your one and all giving in your
adhesion to the objects and principles of these two most
excellent " Alliances." " How can two walk together
except they be agreed?" (Amos iii. 2.) I was much
amused with the condescendingly patronizing tone you adopt
towards the Evangelical party, looking down serenely from
the lofty and somewhat dizzy height of your ecclesiastical
High-Churchism, you yet felt drawn towards us in our low
estate, because you did give us credit for some love to our
Lord and Master. Take heed, Sir, lest you fall from your
exalted pinnacle ; the Basilisk has already fastened its fatal
fascinating gaze upon you, and you seem more than half under
its bewildering spell. Of Dissenters you seem to entertain a
pious horror ; you had not been thrown or drawn much among
them. Now my own feeling is candidly this ; I infinitely
prefer a conscientious nonconformist (I speak of course of
Dissenters as touching religious convictions — not politically
considered, with such I have not a spark of sympathy) who
is straightforward and honest in his points of difference,
while he holds me as a brother in the faith, upon the com
mon ground of our One and only Mediator and Advocate ;
to a smooth-spoken, double-minded man, who with his
mouth professes much love, while he is at the same moment
keeping up and carrying on secret communication with the
enemy at the gate. I think it was that truly noble man,
Lord Derby — witness his labour of love throughout the
Lancashire distress — who quoted on one occasion, in one of
his eloquent harangues in the House of Lords, the telling
words, " A man may smile, and smile again, and be a
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whose mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in
his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were
drawn swords." " Brutus was an honourable man,"
And so doubtless "were they all, all honourable men " who
lately met together to discuss the preliminaries of an union
with the corrupt Greek Church ; "I fear I wrong the
honourable men," the Bishops of London,* Lincoln, and
Oxford, who thus took sweet and secret counsel to betray
the interests of our Reformed Church, of which they profess
to be apostolically ordained overseers and under shepherds
under the One Great Chief Shepherd ; nay
" I fear I wrong the honourable men ;
They were traitors : honourable men ! "
The very laity teach them a lesson of truth, honour, and
consistency. (See Times article, Dec. 28th, 1865.)+ The
man Moses was very meek above all the men which were
upon the face of the earth, yet he, in a moment of just
indignation slew an Egyptian ; and when Israel had wrought
folly, and committed idolatry in the very face and presence
of God before Sinai, his anger waxed hot, and he took the
calf which they had made, and burnt it, and ground it to
powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the
children of Israel drink of it. Peter bravely cut off Malchus's
ear, and afterwards denied his dear Lord thrice ; but Judas,
traitor Judas, betrayed Him with a kiss. " And forthwith
he came to Jesus, and kissed him." (Matt.) " But Jesus
said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of Man with a
kiss?" (John.) The point of agreement, however, between us
* Archibald of London, my heart and spirit rejoiced to see thy disclaimer in
these treacheries, in the Times of 29th Dec, 1865. I hear that a grievous spiritual
murrain and plague has broken out in some of the flocks under your pastoral care;
I do pray the Great and Chief Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, by the healthful
spirit of His grace, to enable, energize, and encourage you manfully, faithfully,
fearlessly to check and suppress it. As also all other faithful and noble-minded
Bishops. The Bishop of Lincoln's letter appeared in the Times subsequent to this
being put into the printer's hands.
f What a glorious institution is our " Free Press ;" but for that, I believe we
should long ago have had Roma dandling us upon her decrepit old knees one
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is this: — you write, " It is not, we trust, without some great
purpose of His love, that God has so marvellously preserved
the English Church until now " (p. 268). There, Sir, you
begin to speak like a man. And again, at p. 276, you write,
"By a wonderful analogy between nature and grace, the
branch which had been severed from the true Vine — (this, of
course, can only be Christ Himself) — carried with it, for a
time, the life of the tree ; but the life-giving sap being cut
off, after a time it withered." Now, if that corrupt branch
be withered, what possible union or communion can we have
with it ? Surely we cannot afford to part with any of our own
grace-infused sap from any pseudo charity for a corrupt and
withered branch ! The wise virgins had no more oil than was
absolutely needed for the trimming of their own lamps ; the
foolish ones must go elsewhere and buy for themselves ; we
have not, I assure you, one drop too much in our own
vessels ; nay, our own candle-stick seems to be yielding a
very " dim religious light," much flicker and smoke; not the
clear, full, unmistakeable, sound, and healthy glow that one
would fain see. The history of the seven primitive
Churches of Asia may well be studied with advantage by
you hyper-ecclesiastics and ultra-ritualistic observers. I
would ask you, Sir, as a man of understanding, i.e.,
spiritually considered, what would either of those holy men
of old, Paul or Peter, say, were they to enter one of our
modern ritualistic chapels in the height of the perform
ances ? Would they not exclaim, " Who hath bewitched
you, 0 ye English, that ye turn again to these childish
beggarly elements ? Have ye never heard what He who
spake as never man spake hath declared ? The God whom
ye ignorantly worship is A spirit ; and they who worship
him must worship him in spirit and in truth ; for such the
Father seeketh to worship Him. Have ye never read in the
Prophets, ' Incense is an abomination unto Me ; he that
burneth incense is as if he blessed an idol ' (even the
very incense of which the Lord himself had prescribed the
fragrant ingredients) ? What, then, is this miserable imi
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it not rather a stink in His nostrils ?" Might not such, I
ask, be the Apostolic expostulation ?
But with regard to our Church, I believe God has
established her in our midst, as well as in the earth a
protest and bulwark against Romanism on the one hand, and
unbelief on the other (for I call the Christian faith and life
Rationalism*) and what may be — for we must speak here
with great caution and circumspection — God's gracious pur
pose towards us as to her future ; did not the great Head
of the Church, by His providence and grace, plant a goodly
branch of the noble vine in our dear country centuries before
the great Gregory (who, I believe, never assumed the title
of chief bishop) ever sent a mission ? Has He not again
and again purified us by the same grace and providence ?
Surely our national and church history, so intimately inter
woven, clearly show that He has. Look at our glorious
Litany — than which, I suppose, no nation under heaven has
a more perfect form of sound words — at once so lowly
and so lofty ; so particular, yet so comprehensive — I never
myself hear that grand sentence : — ¦" 0 God, we have heard
with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us the
noble works that Thou didst in their days, and in the old
time before them," coupled with the preceding prayer,
that " He would graciously hear us, that those evils, which
the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against
us, be brought to nought, and by the providence of Thy
goodness may be dispersed," and the two deep-toned
responsive cries,
" 0 Lord, arise, help us and deliver us for Thy name sake,
0 Lord, arise, help us and deliver us for Thine honour—"
that my mind does not, unconsciously almost, revert to three
* The great Apostle to us Gentiles, and noble-minded Free-thinker, as Christ
and His truth had made him free, writes thus, " Pray for us that we may be de
livered from unreasonable (margin absurd) and wicked men:" the test of their
irrationality being that they " have not faith." 2 Tuessalonians iii. I, 2.
" Believe, and show the reason of a man;
Believe, and taste the pleasure of a God;
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memorable crises in our National and Church history : —
1st. The times of the glorious revolution, when He Who
pulleth down one and setteth up another, Who cutteth off
the spirit of princes and is terrible to the kings of the
earth, manifestly delivered us, Church and throne, from the
crafty devices, confounded the politics, frustrated the knavish
tricks, of Romish and Jesuitical plotters and traitors ; and
established a protestant — I love the honest old word — seed
and succession upon old England's throne. 2nd. The tem
pestuous yet healthy times of the Commonwealth, under that
great man Oliver Cromwell — I had almost called him a king
of men ; and 3rd. " The old times before them," when
the proud hosts of the arrogant " invincible Armada," laden
with its priestly crew and Romish paraphernalia, were
scattered and shattered by the breath of Jehovah, by the
blast of the breath of His nostrils, and swept with the
besom of destruction round our God-defended and -delivered
coasts. " Blessed be the Lord God, the King of Israel, who
only doeth wondrous things ; and blessed be His glorious
name for ever : and let the whole earth be filled with His
glory. Amen and Amen."
.Neither, Sir, do I think it without some deep meaning
and purpose that we have these two divine songs embodied
in our beautiful Liturgy* : 1st. The Holy-Spirit-breathed song
of Mary, " My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath
rejoiced in God my Saviour," whereby the spirit of that holy
saint and the spirit of our holy Church are identified in one
bond of praise to our One Lord, God, and Saviour. 2nd. The
divine song of Zacharias concerning his great son — hereby
the Church being identified in his mission, in this our
accepted time,, our day of salvation, to go before the face of
the Lord and prepare His ways, as John the Baptist did in
his day. I further seem to feel that the song of old
Simeon in the temple, the xcv., the c, the xcviii., and the
lxvii. Psalms, which also are interwoven with our morning
* I here maintain that the doctrinal teaching of the Church of England from
one end of our Common Prayer Book to the other, is unhesitatingly and unmis-
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and evening prayer (not losing sight at the same time of
the large portion of God's Holy Word— that pure well
of Scripture undefiled — which is incorporated in all our
admirable services), go to prove this divine mission, and in
some remarkable manner to indicate a yet more glorious
mission, it may be, in connection with the restoration of
Israel and the lifting up of Zion and Jerusalem from their
down-trodden- of-the-Gen tiles desolate condition. For as
the Great Light hath lightened us Gentiles, so assuredly
will He yet be the glory of His people Israel.* This view of
* After these roughly-expressed thoughts of mine had been put into the printer's
hands, I met with a passage from a noble old Bishop of our Protestant Church, so
apposite to my own conceptions, that I cannot refrain from quoting it. It runs
thus: — " If any nation under heaven could either parallel or second (my italics) the
land of Israel in the favours of God, this poor little island of ours is it. The cloud
of His protection hath covered us. The blood-red sea of persecution hath given
way to us, and we have passed it dry-shod. — [This is comparatively true.] — The
true manna from heaven is rained down abundantly about our tents. The better
law of the Gospel is given to ns by the hand of His Son from heaven. The walls
of the spiritual Jericho are fallen down flat before us, at the blast of the trumpets
of God ; and cursed, cursed shall he be that goeth about to build them up again." Dost
thou hear that, arch-pervert Manning, with all thy priest-crafty crew? In
my own cogitations and ponderings in my heart of those solemn words of our
Blessed Lord to the Jews of old ; believing, as I do, that they had some pregnant
specific meaning: — " Therefore say I unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken
from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruit thereof" (Matt. xxi. 43.)
I have often asked myself the question whether these words may not have pointed
to the sovereign purpose of the King of Nations in the fulness of the times of the
Gentiles in selecting this great truth-emancipated and God-favoured nation, of
which I enjoy the glorious privilege of heing one of its infinitesimal units ? As my
beloved brother Paul of old said, " I am free-born, a. citizen of no mean country."
We take no credit to ourselves for this, do we ? I trust not. " Not unto us. 0 Lord,
not unto us, but unto Thy Name give glory for Thy mercy, for Thy truth's sake:
for Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, because
Thou hadst a favour unto us." We will not, we do not, boast in ourselves. * Oh, no,
" In God we boast all the day long,
And praise Thy Name for ever."
For if He who is greatly exalted, to whom the shields of the earth belong, hath, in
His wisdom, strength, skill and God-wrought art, fused and perfected from ancient
Briton, Celt, Anglo-Saxon, Dane, and Norman ore, this present compound highly-
polished amalgam which we call British metal (? mettle), thereof moulding and form
ing a glorious shield to reflect His truth, honour, and fame throughout the wide, wide
* "Thus Baith the Lord. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty
man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : But let him that glorieth glory
in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving
kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the
Lord."

mine is merely and purely a man's hypothesis, and worth no
more than such usually are. I know not myself that it is
in the power of human genius, by the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit, to give utterance to more perfect forms of most
beauteous prayers than are those of our services and collects ;
you may inform me, in your erudite lore, that we are
indebted to ancient Churches for many of them. I grant it,
Sir ; the Churches may have passed away, but what has beeu
lasting has remained, by the over-ruling providence and
grace of the Spirit of all prayer and supplication ; while
the wood, hay, and stubble of these error- tainted ancient
liturgies has been swept away, fanned and purged by the
breath of the Lord. "What is the chaff to the wheat?
saith the Lord. Is not my word as a fire ? saith the Lord ;
and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Am
I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see
him ? Do not I fill heaven' and earth ? saith the Lord."
My Dissenting friend points out to me that my Church
teaches baptismal regeneration. I point out to him that she
teaches the necessity of, and the prayer for, the daily renew
ing by the Holy Spirit, to make the regeneration and adop-

world " until the times of the Gentiles being fulfilled, the time, yea the set time to
favour Ziou shall come, when the Lord shall arise and have mercy upon her ; shall
we refuse to recognise His hand? tor even now " thy servants take pleasure in her
stones, and favour the dust thereof." (Notice the formation of the Palestine
Exploration Society, with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of York, and
other men of mark for its patrons.) I say if this be so (and I throw out tho crude
thought for what it may be worth, as it hath been conceived in my small brain-pan),
may not 1 — worm of a Gentile that I am — in the present ominous aspect of my
beloved Church's perils, perils too from false brethren, when the enemy seems to be
coming iu like a flood, cry aloud with David, " Thou artmy king, 0 God ; command
deliverance for Jacob ; for God is my king of old, working salvation in the midst of
the earth." Command that the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of Truth, Life, Love,
and Liberty, lift up a standard against him ; and put him to flight ? And so I say,
as Jehu, Who is on the Lord's side? Who? Let us agree together as touching this
request with our great King and Deliverer, '' Save, Lord, let the King hear us when
we call;" and then, it may be (who knoweth?) He will turn and leave a blessing
behind Him, and the spiritual Jezebel being cast down, we shall be able to sing,
" They are brought down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright."* " For
the shields of the earth belong unto God: He is greatly exalted ! " "But Thou, 0
Lord, art a shield about me ; my glory, and the lifter up of my head."
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tion of any vital fruit-yielding avail. (See Collect for the
Nativity of our Lord, or the Birthday of Christ, commonly
called Christmas Day.) And so on, I doubt not, with many
other points of disputation.
You, I believe, Sir, are a great authority on this vexata
questio. Myself, I do most thoroughly believe in an
alarmingly large amount of bapdismal degeneration,* both
in the Church and out of her. I fear me that most of our
Dissenting bodies must, if they be honest, allow this to be
the case among themselves ; and I throw out the suggestion
for all earnest and thoughtful men, whether we might not
have a healthful nationaUhome pe-union and^ Church for
Conformist and Nonconformist (I am myself a Noncon
formist,! m tne Apostolic sense of the word), for the
purpose of really purifying our own Churches, and bringing
about and promoting a more genial tone of practical god
liness, virtue, and piety throughout the length and breadth
of the land. If with " the good hand of our God upon us,"
as brave old Nehemiah was wont to say, we could " rid
and deliver ourselves from the hand of strange children,
whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand
is a right hand of falsehood ; " then, instead of fearing
plague, pestilence, and rinderpest upon either our cattle or
our people, might be realized the glorious prospect of our
sons as plants growing up in their youth, and our daughters
as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace ;
our garners full, affording all manner of store ; our sheep
bringing forth thousands, yea, ten thousands in our streets ;
our oxen strong to labour ; no breaking in ; no going out ;
no complaining in our streets ; and ourselves, our whole
nation that happy people in such a case ; that happy people
* I take the following statement from a weekly paper : — " At a recent meeting
of the Marylebone Literary Institute, Dr. Lankester said that child murder has
attained such horrible proportions in London that he had no hesitation in saying
that one out of every 30 women one saw in the streets was a murderess — in other
words, there were 12,000 females in the metropolis to whom this crime could be
be attributed." Now I infer, that of these 12,000 females some have been baptized
in the Church of England and some in Dissenting communions.
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— England, Ireland,* and Scotland — whose God is the Lord.
" Arise, 0 God, judge Thou the earth, for Thou shalt inhorit all nations."
I said above that I hoped shortly to shew that we needed
a thorough reformation in our own beloved National Zion.
I will endeavour to prove this. In the thoughts of my head,
upon my bed, when my sleep had gone from me, not
many nights since, I seemed to hear the chiming of bells ;
whence came it, and from what quarter ? (Right Reverend
Father in God — for I prefer so to address you ; I like not
the term, Lord Bishop ; to my ear the simple grandeur of
the naked and unadorned '.' Bishop" hath a truly apostolic
ring about it, that carries me back into the very days when the
Great Apostle to us Gentiles wrote those apostolic episcopal
epistles. " Lords Spiritual" or " Spiritual Lords" savoureth
neither of Paul nor Peter. Hark to the ancient primitive
apostolic precept, "The Elders which are among you I exhort
. . . neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being
ensamples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd shall
appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not
away.") Here then is an example to the flock of which
thou art overseer : — Ding Dong Bell,
Bewilberd Samu-el,
S]y-Bell,
Ly-Bell, Ding Dong Bell.
These were the chimes that rang out and rang in through
* The Irish Church question is, I believe, pending. I am no politician, that is,
as the term is understood generally, but in my blundering notions I have a thought
or two on this question. There are men to be met, not entirely of unsound mind,
who consider that Ireland's curse is the Church of Eome. At any rate, if she
be the infallible God-founded and defended Church she professes to be, He
will never leave nor forsake her. She surely might be allowed a chance
of proving this by every fraction of state support being entirely and promptly
withdrawn. If " the finest pisantry on the earth " were enlightened as to
the fact that St. Pathrick nivir was at Bome at all at all ; and that his walking home
over the sea without wetting his feet were all a myth and a lie ; it might be a step
in the right direction. Fear not, my gallant Irish co-Protestants and co-patriots,
" Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world." " Be still and know
that I am God : I will be exalted in the earth." " The Lord of Hosts is with us ;
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my small bewildered brain-pan on that sleepless night upon
my bed. But here is a truly gallant peal of bells for you,
Reverend Father, to consecrate : —
" Pang out wild bells, to the wild sky,
" Ring out wild bells "—let folly die.
" Ring out the old, ring in the new,
" Ring out the false, ring in the true.
" Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
" Ring in redress to all mankind.
" Ring out a slowly dying cause
" And ancient forms of party strife ;
" Ring in the nobler modes of life,
" With sweeter manners, purer laws.
" Ring out the want, the care, the sin ;
" The faithless coldness of the times;
" Ring out false pride in place and blood, —
" Ring in the love of truth and right,
" Ring in the common love of good.
" Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ;
" Ring out the thousand wars of old,
" Ring in the thousand years of peace.
" Ring in the valiant man and free,
" The larger heart, the kindlier hand,
" Ring out the darkness of the land,
" Ring in the Cheist that is to be."*
* I beg the noble Poet Laureate's pardon for having made this use of his perfect
and polished lines in my rough and rude Ironicon. May I request permission to
inscribe to him in respectful admiration of his genius the following unique and
exquisitely wonderful little poem, said — I know not with what truth — to have been
composed by " an idiot 1 "
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
Were the whole world of parchment made,
Were eveiy stick and twig a quill,
And every man a scrihe by trade : —
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry ;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky I
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For "He is, and He was, and He is to come, the Al
mighty; Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day,
and for ever. Behold He cometh with clouds ; and every
eye shall see Him, and they which pierced Him: and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even
so, Amen." I know that the days shall come when there
shall be upon the bells and bridles of the horses,
" Holiness unto the Lord ; "
but I do not think that day has yet come, or that those
consecrated bells are a whit the holier for that
Tintinnabulistic, mystic, christic benediction,*
0 tic, 0 tic, 0 tic, tic — doloureux !
O mediaeval crack-brained priestly crew ! f
We shall soon, I fear, require the establishment of clerical
or ecclesiastical lunatic asylums. The other day I met a
priest —
A priest ! a priest ! — I met a priest i' the wilderness
A motley priest : —
As I do not live by bread alone, I met a priest ;
Who railed on priestly vestments in good terms,
" Of copes, chasubles, tunics, dalmatics, amices, cottas,
Birettas, and all the other mysteries of church tailoring."
Old Clo' — Old Sarum, or old Roman, — he prated of the gospel of
the sacraments, of masses, of higher and lower celebration ; with
much vain talk he babbled of mediaeval monkish legends, and old
wives' fables : —
When I did hear the motley priest thus moral on the theme,
Oh ! I did laugh, sans intermission.
* No more of this an you love me, Samuel ! You have heard of a doughty
northern warrior who, for his bold and daring deeds, earned the nom de guerre of
Archibald Bell-the-Cat ; surely you do not seek to emulate his example, and to be
handed up or down to posterity as Samuel, the Bell- weather Shepherd of the flock !
Those Reading bells, those Reading bells,
will ring a peal against thee, Samnel, Samuel ; no more of that
Tintinnabulistic, mystic, christic, fun
'An thou lovest me, Hal !'
f One of these same priests complained the other day of a Northern Eeview, as
having made use of the term, " crack-brained medievalist," and, i' faith, I think,
with some cause ; — they have no brains to crack ! Eh ! my ifao-inical Friend ?
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Oh noble priest ! ...
A worthy Priest ! Motley's the only wear.
I fear me you will thus out-pusey " the great and good Dr.
Pusey ! " For " I," quoth I, " am also a priest, a royal priest ;
and thou, my brother, art likewise, if thou believest that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Yes ; thou
art of the holy priesthood and nation whose service is to shew
forth the praises of Him who hath called us out of darkness
into His marvellous light ; that we should offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ : " but while I
spake, my motley priest had collapsed, vanished into thin
impalpable ah-, or into the thick mediaeval darkness whence
he had emerged ; leaving a strong sulphureous fume behind
him as of the incense of the bottomles pit.
Priest-Craft, Priest-Daft, Priest-Insubordination,.
Noli Episcopal determination,
Disgrace the Church, and sore distress the nation.
What ! Priest insubordination ! after Episcopal ordination ?
Yes, my lord, that is the count ; I will prove my point,
Reverend Sir ; and " Thou art the man."
How read we ? I quote from a local paper, — " Dr. Pusey
writing to a clergyman, in the diocese of Ely, counsels that
in regard to ritual nothing should be done without having
first secured the good will of the people. " 0 you sly old puss !
0 you insubordinate priest ! now I will put a case to you.
Suppose that when in the army, I had been seized with a
mutinous mania — mind, I a junior officer, a subaltern — and
wished to introduce an uniform, arms, and accoutrements of
a totally different character, — say, an antiquated, obsolete
pattern, — to those in use according to the rules and regula
tions of the service ; and instead of applying to my own
commanding officer, I had put myself in communication
with a subaltern of another regiment about the matter,
what think you, Sir, should I deserve ? Why to be cashier
ed, or severely reprimanded. And this is precisely the
position of yourself and this priest. Had you been true to

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your " orders," " episcopal orders," I presume ; had you
been an honest man — an author of peace and lover of con
cord, and of good discipline — you would have referred him
at once to the Bishop of his diocese, and yourself, also,
have reported him to the Bishop. Now, Sir, I think
both of you most justly deserve to be unfrocked. What are
our Bishops ordained and consecrated for ? but " duly to
administer the godly discipline of their sees ; and to correct
and punish such men as be unquiet, disobedient, and crimi
nous." As for the priest, I find he is guilty of even worse
insubordination ; for he has solemnly promised, "reverently
to obey his Ordinary, and other chief ministers, unto whom
is committed the charge and government over him (you, Sir,
I believe, belong to another diocese), following with a glad
mind and will all their godly admonitions, and submitting
himself to their godly judgments." Who more likely to
know what is the most sound and sober form of ritual
and vestment, for the conducting of God's holy worship in
their several dioceses, than the Bishops appointed over
them ? And who more likely to be so well versed in eccle
siastical history, church government, and diocesan jurisdic
tion, than our right reverend Fathers in God ? Remember,
Sir, we are not living in the disturbed times of the brief
reign of that noble young boy, Edward VI. , but, thanks be to
God, in the reign of Victoria, by the grace of God, Defender
of the Faith ; and we have one* prayer book, simple and
sublime, plain and easy to be understood, by peer and
peasant alike. Oh ! how refreshed I was, yesterday, on
noticing an admirable print, representing Her Most Gracious
Sovereign, Lady, Queen VICTORIA, the late lamented Prince
Consort standing by her side, as she was presenting a copy
of God's Holy Word to an Indian chief kneeling before her,
with these thrice-noble words : " There is the secret of
England's greatness, of England's glory ! " All honor to
thee, Noble, Illustrious, Royal Lady, for such honourable
words. Noble ? Honourable ? Yes. Hear. " These were
more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received
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the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scrip
tures daily; therefore many of them believed, and of
honourable women,* and of men, not a few." But, " we also
read the scriptures," whispers Roma. Not so ; you have
not the Scriptures of Truth ; yours is a mutilated garbled
copy ; you have dared to erase and take from the words of
this book one of God's commandments, and to add to it one
of your own. Yet while I withstand you to the face, as
Paul did Peter, because you are grievously to be blamed, I
earnestly and affectionately, as many as will give heed
to my words among you, " commend you to God and to
the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to
give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified."
So long as we have God's Ten Commandments intact, as
they came forth from Sinai's thunder-flame, in all our
churches and chapels throughout the length and breadth
of our truth - emancipated country, I will not fear for
England. " The Lord of Hosts is with us : the God of Jacob is our
refuge." As a noble and faithful minister of our church
said bravely to me lately, " I fear not, we are on a Rock."
" And that Rock is Christ."
And the Christian man may well adopt the gallant example
and words of James Fitzjames —
" His back against ' this Rock ' to bear,
And firmly plant his foot-hold there ;
Come one, come all, ' this Rock ' shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I."
There are other " signs of the times " which do cheer my
small Anglo-Saxon heart, so that I, also, as Paul did when
he got to the Three Taverns at Appii Forum, " thank God,
and take courage." " Have I not commanded thee? Be
* 0 ye few noble honourable ladies, who doubtless have been beguiled and
seduced by some plausible subtil priest-crafty sophistry, come back! return unto
the Great Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, and He will give you rest ; for even
now He waits that He may be gracious unto you. Come back, return poor
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strong, and of good courage ; be not afraid, neither be thou
dismayed : for the Lord Thy God is with thee, withersoever
thou goest." " Awake — agaiu the Gospel-trump is blown —
From year to year it swells with louder tone ;
From year to year the signs of wrath
Are gathering round the Judge's path,
Strange words fulfill'd, and mighty works achiev'd,
And truth in all the world, both hated and believed."
I would like, Reverend Doctor, to have a word or two
with you on the vexed question — baptismal regeneration.
Many eminent theologians have written and spoken of the
rite of Baptism as being to the Christian branch of Christ's
One Holy Catholic Church, what circumcision was to the
Jewish branch — its initiatory rite. Now, receiving this as a
fair and Scriptural analogy, from apostolic reasoning I would
affirm that he is not a Christian which is one outwardly,
neither is that baptism which is outward in the flesh ; but he
is a Christian which is one inwardly ; and baptism is of the
heart, in the spirit, not in the letter ; whose praise is not of
men, but of God. 2nd, That Baptism is nothing — whether
adult or pcedo — and non-baptism is nothing but the keeping
the commandments of God. 3rd, That in Christ Jesus neither
baptism availeth anything, nor non-baptism ; but faith which
worketh by love and a new creature ; for as that Great Apostle*
to us Gentiles, and noble-minded Free-thinker — as the truth
had made him free in the liberty wherewith Christ makes us
free — affirms " therefore if any man be in Christ, he is (or
let him be, margin) a new creature." Now that thousands
and tens of thousands of baptized persons, both adult f and
pcedo, are certainly not new creatures is a fact so plain,
startling, and self-evident that I suppose no sane mind, not
blinded by church-crotchet, bias, or prejudice, can for a
moment venture to deny. You will remember, Sir, the small
stroke of wit of the Hebrew Hercules of old, after he had
* Onr Great Apostle actually thanks God that he had baptized none save one or
two of the Corinthian converts.
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—when the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him—
rent, as he would have rent a kid, the young lion that roared
against him ; he put forth a riddle unto them. It has
just occurred to me to propound a small enigma* to your
erudite and cunning brain : —
Here take and turn. and twist me well about,
For Monk I am, yet Monk too, I am not ;
That is my Christian and baptismal name,
Wherein I, meekly, heavenly sonship claim ;
but at the same time I will defy you or any other divine,
living or dead, Eastern or Western, to name to me the
day and the hour when I was born again ; that day and
that hour, I believe, are- .knows- wjJy-~feQ-j?aay-FaiJmrJ.Ti--h^aly-eB-
&ad are recorded in the baptismal register on high, even the
book of life of the " Lamb slain from the foundation of the
* It is true that I cannot hold out to you as the guerdon for the solving of my
little riddle thirty changes of Philistine garments, but if you really be a spiritually-
minded man, and steward of the mysteries of God, and minister of Christ, you will
perhaps lend me your hand in putting down this new clerical old clo' movement —
whether old Sarum or Old Roman — and manfully use pen and voice for the casting
away of these Puseyitish and Babylonish garments : so that our Bishops, Presbyters,
and Deacons, may be clothed with the spiritually-fine linen, clean and white, of
righteousness and salvation ; and our saints may shout aloud, and sing for joy and
gladness ; and the services of our worship be conducted in spirit and in truth,
soberly, decently, and decorously, without intoning or monotouing, or any other
sort of falsetto* moaning or groaning whatsoever ; but that what is to be said or
prayed be effectually and fervently so prayed of all ; and what is to be sung, be so
of all sung with the spirit and with the understanding. Whereby we shall do well.
I suggest as ». fitting phylactery to some of these Puseyitish garments the
following : — Man, vain man
Drest in a little brief ecclesiastical millinery,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven ,
As make the angels smile.
We know for certain that those holy beings rejoice over one sinner that repenteth ;
and it may, perhaps, be legitimately inferred that they do also smile at these
fantastic clerical tricks. I take the following remark from the pages of a new
monthly periodical, " The Contemporary Review," which promises to be of a healthful
sound christian tone. " The busy looking up of mediaeval millinery which is now,
with so many of our clergy, usurping the place of the cares and studies to which
they have devoted themselves, might be treated as mere childish nonsense, were it
not that it originates in, and proceeds upon, hidden disloyalty to the Church of
England, and treachery to her principles." (P. 174, Review of a charge of the
Bishop of Ely.) * See note (d) at end.

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world ;" " and of Zion it shall be said, This and that man
was born in her ; the Lord shall count when he writeth up
the people, This man was born in her. Selah." Ps. lxxxvii.
5, 6. My reason for this baptistic challenge is, that I throw
down my gauntlet in the name of One, the hem of whose
High-Priestly robe neither you, nor I, nor any mortal man
is worthy so much as to touch. He, Who spake as man never
spake has declared that " that which is born of the flesh is
flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. The wind
bloweth where it listeth, and thou knowest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth :
so is every one that is born ofthe Spirit." " Art thou a master
in Israel, and knowest not these things ?" As soon as you can
solve that little mystery in natural religion, I will ask you to
pronounce dogmatically upon that greater spiritual one.
You are also, most learned Doctor, held by some to be an
authority on another most painfully debated Divine mystery.
You would call it the Holy Eucharist. As venturing to
believe that I also am of the true apostolic succession, with
that anointing which cometh not with the laying on of
man's hands — at least, as a dogmatic fact — but is that
unction from the Holy One — for He who hath anointed us
with you is God : who hath also sealed us and given the
earnest of the Spirit in our hearts ; and as this anointing
which we have received of Him abideth in us, and we need
not that any man teach us ; but as the anointing teacheth
you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie; so I prefer
after apostolic fashion to call it " the Cup of Blessing of the
Communion of the blood of Christ; and the bread, the
Communion of the body of Christ." " For we, being many,
are one bread." — Are we all changed into Bread! Sir ? — and
" one body; for we are all partakers of that one Bread."
Now our most Blessed Lord " in the night in which He was
betrayed," as our scriptural communion service, quoting the
words of the Apostle, expresses it, — "took bread: and when
He had given thanks, He brake it, and said, Take, eat :
this is my body, which is broken for you; this do" — not
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for ever ; let no man presume to attempt to repeat or imitate it
 a in 'remembrance of Me ; and in the same manner also the
cup " &c, &c. Our Scriptural Church, without any am
biguous mystifying phraseology, without darkening counsel
by words without knowledge, but with very forcible and
rio-ht words, simply and beautifully expresses herself through
out her inimitable communion service : thus, at the opening
address, " For then we spiritually eat the flesh and drink the
blood of Christ." She prays, " Grant us so (mark that
small important monosyllable) to eat the flesh of Thy dear
Son, and to drink His blood, that our sinful bodies may be
made clean by His body" (corporally? I trow not), "and
our souls washed through His most precious blood." Now
I suppose a spiritual substance such as the soul can only be
spiritually washed. Again, " Grant that we, receiving these
Thy creatures of bread and wine, according to Thy Son our
Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institution, may be partakers of
His most blessed Body and Blood ; " — but how ? Spiritually
I trow. For in that most admirable concluding prayer and
thanksgiving, " We most heartily thank Thee, for that Thou
dost vouchsafe to feed us, who have duly received these holy
mysteries, with the spiritual food of the most precious Body
and Blood of Thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, and dost
assure us thereby of Thy favour and goodness toward us ;
and that we are very members incorporate in the mystical
body of Thy Son, which is the blessed company of all faithful
people;" — Jew or Gentile, bond or free, conformist or non
conformist, I take it. Well, Sir, it seems to me, an
unlettered and unlearned babe in Christ, that to understand
or profit by these very plain and most forcible and right
words of our dear Church, (as your friend Mr. Keble
sweetly expresses it,)
" All the lore her children* need,
Pure eyes and Christian hearts."
* I have altered " scholars " to adapt the simple lines to my subject. Will
the Rev. Mr. Keble forgive me, and honour me, so as to permit me to call him friend ?
for I owe him mille fois, a thousand, thousand thanks for his exquisite little book
Next to my Bible and Prayer Book, I do most deeply prize it. May I inscribe one
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But on the other hand, one would require a most oblique and
twisted vision and a most double, triple, and multiple heart
and head to read and comprehend the flood of theological
disputation and disquisition on this most sublimely simple
mystery, which you hypercritical, hypothetical, and hypo-
statical divines have elaborated on the dogmas of tran
substantiation and consubstantiation, wherewith it seemeth
to me, you have been literally and figuratively crucifying the
Son of God afresh, and wounding Him in the house of
His friends, during the many centuries of your voluminous
and vituperative disputations. I will only ask you one
question — If bread be flesh, how can it be bread ; if flesh
be bread, how can it be flesh ? And yet the Son of God is
the Bread of God which cometh down from heaven, and
giveth life unto the world. And except ye eat the flesh of
the Son of Man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.
And " the words (saith He) that I speak unto you are spirit
and are life." For " it is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh
profiteth nothing. Comparing spiritual things with spiri
tual, because they are spiritually discerned." "Verily I say
unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God
as a little child, he shall not enter therein. I thank thee, 0
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid
these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed
them unto babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good
in Thy sight." " Thou anointest my head with oil,"
" I shall be anointed with fresh oil."
never mind who that one was, for she, like Michal, David's wife, was given to
another. Wherefore, " My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced
in God my Saviour." It runs thus, at the end of the piece for the Nineteenth
Sunday after Trinity :— Yet once again— hath he not known
Who vainly sought a maiden's love,
The wondrous grace by which alone
His heart and hope were raised above ;
What timehis path was wild and dark,
The hand that gently drew within the Ark 1
For He, who telleth the number of the stars and calleth them all by names; also
healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds and griefs, and giveth
medicine to heal their sicknesses. " Whom have I in heaven but Thee, and there is
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" What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits
towards me ? I will take the Cup of Salvation, and call
upon the name of the Lord." I will " offer the sacrifices
of righteousness, and put my trust in the Lord." "For we
are the circumcision (and, by a parity of reasoning, the
baptized), who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh."
Without identifying you with all the puerilities — ecclesi
astical mountebankery ; priestly theatricals ; clerical floral
exhibitions of the party whom, for want of a more definite
distinction, we must term the Puseyite ; you will scarcely, I
would hope, endorse with your sacerdotal approval the
following. I take it from an account which I have read of a
late resolute, manly and determined stand that the church
wardens and members of a congregation in a parish in the
Bishop of Manchester's diocese, have been making against
the proceedings of a Mr. Lee (my pen refuses to write him
down the Reverend, notwithstanding that he has received epis
copal ordination). We lay-members of Christ's church mili
tant here on earth, who are of the royal priesthood, kings and
priests unto the God and Father of our great High Priest and
King, Jesus the Son of God who is passed into the heavens for
us, " have an unction," as the beloved apostle tells us, "from
the Holy One,^and know all things ; for the anointing which
ye have received of Himabideth in you, (and therefore un
questionably we are of the true, direct apostolic succession,)
and ye need not that any man teach you ; but as that anointing
teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and
even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in it : so that when
He shall appear ye may have confidence, and not be ashamed
before Him at His coming. " But I should be most thoroughly
ashamed of myself had I edited a " book in which the dogmas
of the elevation and adoration of the Host, masses for the
dead, extreme unction, the use of incense, and a variety of
rubbish, such, for instance, as the assumption that flies become
consecrated by tumbling into the Chalice, and being immersed
m the precious blood of Christ are put forth and propagated."
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Frederick George Lee. Now, Sir, I will tell you whose priest
I take this most irreverent Reverend to be, — none else than
Beelzebub himself. Beelzebub, you know, is the god of flies.
" Dead flies (or as the marginal reading is, ' flies of death')
cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking
savour " and so do such spiritually dead priests, or priests of
death, cause the whole holy order of Bishops, Presbyters,
and Deacons, to have an ill-savour among /ree-thinking
and spiritually - minded men, women, and children. Ye
faithful, honourable, and true-hearted Bishops, Presby
ters, and Deacons of the Church of England, I call upon
you, in the name of our common faith and common
sense to rise up as one man and to purge out this leaven of
wickedness and sacrilege from among our communion.
Give not over our sons and daughters and little, ones to the
" crack-brained " mercies of these " flies" in their moth-like
vestments, flitting to and fro around their altar tapers and
with their incense pots of the bottomless pit, creeping into
confessionals* and beguiling unstable souls with mediaeval
juggleries and incantations ; their genu-flections and their
caput-flections ; their crosses and their crucibles, and I
know not what ecclesiastical ridiculosities beside. Speak I
in " a mocking spirit?" as a littlef friend hinted the other
day. Let us go back to the grand old antiquity, ere
mediaeval mummery was hatched or spawned. Lo, on the
brow of that ocean-commanding mount stands a colossal
figure — alone in His stern, sublime, and rugged grandeur —
" I, even I, only remain a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's
prophets are four hundred and fifty men, who eat at Jezebel's
table." Israel are gathered together to hear the controversy
between Jehovah and Baal ; Elijah in thunder-tone haran-
* See note (e) at end.
t See a small playful controversy on " Hothouse Congregations " in an ex
cellent local paper, The Bath Chronicle for December. I know from my beloved
brother Peter that " there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their
own lusts, aud saying, where is the promise of His coming?" and from our brother
Paul, " that in the last days perilous times shall come, for men shall be— traitors,
heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." But he also
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gues them, " How long halt ye between two opinions ? If
the Lord be God, follow Him ; but if Baal, follow him."
One is almost inclined to exclaim, " Men and women of
England, how long halt ye also between two thoughts ? If
Beelzebub be God, follow him ; but if Jesus Christ be Lord,
High Priest, and King (as He assuredly is, whether ye will
hear or whether ye will forbear), then follow Him, and away
with these priests of profanity from amongst you." But our
tableau proceeds — Baal's priests prepare their sacrifice, and
the prophet of God his; the test being "the God that
answereth by fire, let Him be God ; " and Baal's priests
called on the name of Baal from morning- even until noon,
saying, 0 Baal, hear us ! But there was no voice, nor any
that answered, and they leaped up and down at the altar. (I
think we have some altar-pieces and pantomimes in this our
day.) "And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them
and said, Cry aloud ; for he is a god ; either he meditateth, or
hath a pursuit, (I take the marginal readings), or peradven-
ture he sleepeth,* and must be awaked. And they cried aloud
and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets
till the blood gushed out upon them." Poor drivelling, doting
frantic fanatics that they were ! However " there was neither
voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded." As, in-
* Some late utterances — or shall we call them vain babblings — from the
Vatican remind one strangely enough of Dame Quickly's account of old Falstaff s
doting end : — " . and 'a babbled o' green fields,

And talked o' the whore o' Babylon-"

I quote from a weekly journal : — " His holiness, in conclusion, said that after the
departure of the French army the enemies of the Church and of the Holy See
would perhaps come to Rome; but, remembering the example of Christ, in the Garden
of Gethsemane, the Pope would pray for the French army, and the imperial family,
and the whole of France, and even for poor Italy afflicted by so many evils. " And
again, '¦ The Pope, on receiving the congratulations of the cardinals on Christmas
Day, replied that God had never abandoned the church in tempestuous times. His
holiness called to mind our Lord sleeping in the storm on the Lake of Gennessareth.
1 At the present times,' said his holiness, ( Christ seems to be sleeping, but He is
watching for the defence of the church. The future is in the hands of God, and
the triumph of the church is inevitable.' " Most true '. " The triumph of the church
is inevitable." Metbinks, as is written of Caiaphas the High Priest of old, when
" he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation ; and not for that nation only,

deed, how should there be ? Then stood forth the grand and
solitary man, prepared his sacrifice, and prayed, " Lord God
of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day
that Thou art God in Israel ; and that I am Thy servant,
and have done all these things at Thy word." Then " fell
the fire of the Lord from heaven . . and all the people
fell on their faces, and said, The Lord He is the God : The
Lord He is the God." And oh! my dear fellow-country
men and countrywomen, "Both low and high, rich and poor
together," this poor man hath cried unto the Lord day and
night, that it would please Him to " arise, help us, and
deliver us for His Name sake, and for His honour ; from all
the evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man
worketh against us ; and that by the providence of His
goodness they may be brought to nought and dispersed,"
and while he acknowledgeth with his hand upon his mouth,
and his mouth in the dust, that he is not " a righteous " but
" a sinful man," he remembereth " that Elias was a man
subject to like passions as we are ; and that Elias' God is
our God, for ever and ever ; and trusteth that He will not
depart from us, sinful people though we be ; that He will
not abhor us, for His Name's sake, nor disgrace the throne
of His glory and grace ; for " we acknowledge, 0 Lord, our
wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers ; for we have sinned
against Thee."
" The Lord is my strength and my shield ; my heart
trusted in Him, and I am helped : therefore my heart
greatly rejoiceth ; and with my song will I praise Him."
Prayer moves the chariot- wheels of God,
Prayer wields the ancient prophet's rod,*
but that also He should gather together in one the children of God that were
scattered abroad. This spake he not of himself." So, 0 Pio Nono, thou hast not
spoken this of thyself; for by a parity of reasoning and prophecy the downfall of
Romanism is inevitable !
" Awake, awake ! put on strength, 0 Arm of the Lord ! awake, as in the
ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not It that hath cut Rahab, and
wounded the dragon ?"
* " Take Moses' rod, the rod of prayer." — Christian Tear, Easter Eve. I must
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Angels and elements obey
When men of faith in earnest pray.
Hebrews ix., v. 14, 29.
Nor fasts nor vigils, prayers nor praises
Can cleanse the soul within,
'Tis blood, and blood alone erases
The taint, the stain of sin.
" The blood of Jesus Christ which cleanseth " —
The blood on Calvary spilt, —
A royal pardon that dispenseth
For man's rebellious guilt.
The righteousness of Christ commendeth
To reconciling grace ;
Through His High-Priesthood now descendeth
The unction to efface
The stains of sin-begotten sadness ;
Sweet " unction from above " —
The holy golden oil of gladness,
The Spirit's peace and love.
I may be here allowed to introduce, Sir, to your notice a
rough sketch which I have lately taken of church parties, it
runs in rugged metre, but may, perhaps, contain a feature
or two of a faithful, if not too flattering, character :—
High Church, Low Church, No Church, are in ' hot water,'
They stab, devour, and bite, and give no quarter,
' I am of this,' ' and I of that ' crack preacher,
Alike regardless of the One Great Teacher
Who came, enrobed in meekness from above,
To teach mankind both Law and Gospel love,
and Prayer Book were my two chief references. I have once or twice drawn
upon that exquisitely beautiful little book, " The Christian Year," as well as from
our great " Immortal Will." Will my readers, should I be so fortunate as to meet
with a few to do me the honour of reading these rugged sentences, further
favor me by a perusal of a small Poem I am bringing out, " The Pilgrim with the
Ancient Book." (Hunt, Holies Street.) It has no merit but what it derives from
the pure well of Scripture undefiled.

The brave Dissenters leave our grand old Church *
In most degenerate bapdismal lurch :
Some with wild daring wing essay the fligbt
Where Seraphin must veil the dazzled sight ;
While others subtilly will crawl and creep
Where Cherubin with flaming sword high guard still keep.
Some pun and play upon the word eternal,
In fashion terrible to wits infernal ,+
(I pray their grief may not be sempi-ternal).
Some crucify the Son of God afresh !
And mystify the sacred Blood and Flesh :
A priestly crew in s&cerdotish guise
Defile God's House with Eome's delusive lies ;
Of mediaeval rubbish raise the mass
With puerile profaneness crude and crass :
Incense the God of Truth with carnal incense,
Alike devoid of Spirit, faith, and sound sense ;
Others will God's pure word improve, expound,
With sounding brass or tinkling cymbal sound.
Some rave about crackt bits of painted glass,
Some scrape and scrub the monumental brass ;
Both High and Low Tractarians scribble tracts
Embellished more or less with pious facts :
Tract 90,1 Tract 100, Tract Distraction,
Tract peace of Church and State's insane infraction !
* " From times, probably apostolic, the Church of Christ had existed in this
country, striking its roots down deeply, and outliving many a storm which
threatened its overthrow." (" Baptism and Baptismal Regeneration." By Rev.
Canon Boyd. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday.) And, by the blessing of the Great
Head of the Church, we shall do so again.
t I think at times it may be a grim joke to the poor " Devils who believe and
tremble," if they have means of knowing of the affairs of the men of this world, to
hear of their vain janglings and disputations : their consolation may be that they
shall know for certain hereafter.
J I notice that you have brought out the celebrated Tract 90 again. Is this
another outward and visible sign of your being inwardly and spiritually an author
of peace and lover of concord ? Permit me to ask you, Reverend Sir, have you
seen the last tract by the greatest Tractarian of the age? The simple title is "In
Christ." I do most reverently commend it to your earnest perusal, as also the
sister tract, " What does it cost? " It is less costly in pecuniary value than that
clever " What will he do with it ? " but perhaps a thought more edifying. We live
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There are who deem it pious fudge and gammon
' That a man cannot serve both God and mammon ;'
' See how those Christians love ' was said of old ;
Mark how to-day they squabble, strive, and scold,
Corrupted with the canker-eating gold !
Howl, howl ye rich men •; roar ye bulls of Bashan !
Hiss, hiss ye vipers, serpents spawned of Satan ! *
Who swallow dromedaries down by dozens,
And strain at gnats ; just like your Jewish cousins ;
Ye whited sepulchres of dead men's bones,
Relics of rotten monks and sleeping drones :
Who sea and land encompass to seduce
One proselyte, and make him servant of the Deuce !
Come little children, let us sing
A Christmas carol to our King !
For He the kingdom bright hath given
Of love and peace, and joy and heaven.
" Little children, let us love one another."
" Little children, keep yourselves from idols."
It seems to me that here is the time and place to
enunciate my own small proposition for a genuine Church
union on sound scriptural bases, to be adjusted by the
recognized and authorized eminent men of our nation and
people ; for the purifying, building up, and consolidating on
broad Catholic Protestant grounds of our beloved National
Zion. Let moderate, judicious, and courteous action and
agitation be taken and excited on this subject ; and I have
some hope that a satisfactory result, under the auspices and
favour of the Author of Peace and Lover of Concord, might
be obtained. Why cannot Conformist and Nonconformist,
* There is a miserable little tin-trumpety paper, calling itself the organ of the
High-Church party, which spits out its nasty venom at those brave and honest
Bishops who are endeavouring to rule their dioceses and flocks with a faithful hand.
It was in its pages I met my Motley Priest. Its columns are filled with such a
tissue of unmitigated modern mediaeval trash and rubbish, that I wonder the type
does not refuse to be " set np " to such hurdy-gurdy Notes and Queries ; and the
paper to receive the impression of such contemptible and childish stuff. I know
that " Small curs are not regarded when they grin."
Perhaps that accounts for its circulation.

true Churchman and true Dissenter* agree to meet together,
to commune and intercommune upon the Catholic compre
hensive ground of the faith in the One Mediator between
God and men— the Man Christ Jesus ; Who is, also, over
all, God blessed for ever. Amen. I am told that legally
every Dissenter is a member of the National Church ; why,
then, not lend us a brave, friendly right hand of fellowship,
to withstand and put to flight, under the Bannerf of the
Spirit of the Lord, the common foe and enemy of our
religious, civil, and national freedom? Then might the
breaches, by which both the craft and subtilty of the devil
and man have in times past distracted and rent us, and are
again seeking to widen us, be healed and bound up with
the true lasting cement of pure and undefiled British
Christianity; and these dissensions and sectarian bitter-
* I commend to the calm and unprejudiced perusal of my sober, sound-minded
non-conforming brethren — lay and clerical — the new work, " Baptism and Bap
tismal Regeneration," by the Rev. Archibald Boyd, A.M; characterized, as it is
alike by its plain, scholarly, and scriptural reasoning, and its candid catholic appeal
to sound sense. Well done 1 Hon. and Rev. Canon ; forgive my military play upon
thine ecclesiastical dignity, but thou hast fired well and truly ; and methinks must
silence the enemy's battery. I am reminded of the wild and hot days of my youth ;
when I recollect to have seen, on more than one occasion, a gole (body or troop) of
the enemy's horse scattered and dispersed by a well-directed shot or shell from the
cunning and correct eye and hand of a brave artillery man.
I have had the pleasure and privilege of reading a modest little pamphlet,
" Ephraim and Judah," by a Nonconformist ; I regret that it is out of print. The
tone of it is so Catholic and Christian that I should be glad to see it in the hands of
Churchmen and Dissenters again. Were all Nonconformists of that spirit, there
would be small difficulty in an amicable and patriotic settlement of our little
differences. A certain Churchman is said to have been sceptical as to its author
ship. I fancy some of our distance and reserve is caused by our not knowing each
other more intimately ; we have a mere bowing, beaver-lifting acquaintance, as a
rule; not more. I do know one Churchman who extended the right hand of
fellowship to the nonconforming author of that little pamphlet, which was cordially
grasped and shaken in return, with just perhaps a soupcon, a sly dissenting pinch of
the forefinger and thumb. Our misunderstandings arise too much from misrepre
sentations. As in the ease when Sarah^feamp, of^umbreMa notoriejty, tohf 1
that Miss Spitfire hftd saipr " that/she! (Mrs: dfundyl was,/ a ijanteriikerous', cijoss,
tempered/bid c^t -f what/Miss SrAfire did ieallyWy bMng, " MV/dear '
what amangelicj 'eaveaV temper poor Mrs. Grujdy do \ve ; I /Amo;
she doVput ur/withyall ter fbor\its; nqr how/sfie can aoea/all m
trouble^ome/chilo^en ; I never eoSjlpVa Joneyso mTriWlf. " Precisely so; we do not
" bear o*ne another's burdens, and to fulfi^ the law of Christ."
a.
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nesses which are a stumbling-block to the earnest yearnings
of continental Christians after a pure and spiritual union
and communion, be put aside, and the Church renewed
in the strength of JEHOVAH TSIDKENU rise up as
on the wings of an eagle, or as a giantess refreshed with
wine — to apply David's glowing language — and smite her
enemies both in the front and hinder part, to the delight
and satisfaction of all honourable men and honourable
women ; and shall we add ("with reverence and godly fear "),
to the joy of the angels in heaven; and, above all, with the
approving nod and smile of the Lord of men and angels
— " the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and
Lord of lords, Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the
light which no man can approach unto ; Whom no man hath
seen, nor can see; to Whom be honour and power ever
lasting. Amen." I throw out the above roughly conceived
and rudely expressed thoughts for the consideration of the
thinkers and workers of both honest and honourable Church
men and Dissenters, Bishops and Elders, Presbyters* and
Deacons, Church-wardens and Chapel-wardens. May the
Great Head over all things inspire continually the Universal
Church with the Spirit of truth, unity, and concord; and
grant that all we who do confess His holy Name, may agree
in the truth of His holy Word, and live in unity and godly
love : until we are caught up in the clouds, to meet Him in
the air : when He Himself shall descend from heaven with
a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and the trump of
God. I have said above that there are one or two other hopeful
" Signs of the Times" to my small mind visible on the
surface of affairs in general. I will mention one prominent
and significant one, Sir ; it is this, I lately read an account
of a deputation of working men which waited upon a noble
Lord, a member of the present Government, for the purpose
of bringing about the opening of museums and similar
places of mere mental and physical recreation on a Day which
is variously known as Sabbath, Sunday, or Lord's Day,
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according to the peculiar tone or cast of mind of the thinker,
— myself, I look upon it as a happy combination, a triple
alliance of each distinctive designation — the noble Lord,
while courteously sympathizing with the movement, frankly
stated that he thought the measure inopportune (and there
I most cordially agree with him) ; but the refreshing cir
cumstance to me was that shortly after a second, counter-
deputation, of The British Workman class, with their new
member* at their head, whom it appeared they had actually
enlightened as to the real views and sentiments of the
honourable class whom they represented, came before the
same noble Lord and stated plainly and manfully that it was
not the desire nor wish of the working classes that the Sunday
(or Lord's Day) should be used as a day of mere recreation,
whereby an increased share of work would be necessarily
entailed on a large portion of their own order ; but rather
that the Saturday afternoon should be given' them as a time
for opening all places of healthy recreation and instruction
for mind, body, and estate. Now Sir, when I read that, I
did again " thank God and take courage." All honour to you
noble British Working Men and Working Women !f The
Son of Man, who is Lord also of the Sabbath, pour upon
you all of the healthful spirit of His grace and the continual
dew of His blessing ! Here is a small rough- hewn poem I
dedicate to you all, for I hope some of you will find time to
read my little Ironicon, composed, as it is, partly in rhyme
and wholly in reason.
Grave though the question be, it is no Mammoth
Which public men discuss — I mean the Sabbath.
It surely should all thoughtful minds convince
That fie, Who made that day, has bless'd it since,
* See note (g) at end.
f From this slight incident, I seemed to realise a partial fulfilment— a foretaste
of the promise of the God of Israel :— " For this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into
their mind " (we have them, you know, Sir, as I have already pointed out, on the
walls of all our churches and chapels throughout the kingdom) ¦' and write them in
their hearts," &o. Now, if it be thus with us Gentiles ; what will it be when the
fulness of the promise is realised? when Israel is "graffed in; for God is able to
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Has sovereign right to appoint it set apart
For holy exercises of man's heart.
' The Son of Man ' Himself has taught the way
How to observe the Lord's own Sabbath Day :
T' attend the synagogues ; the Gospel preach ;
The multitudes with holy lectures teach ;
In works and words of kindness and of love
Its christian character, and ease to prove ;
In quiet converse through the healthful fields
To imbibe the wisdom which kind nature yields.
Were all the Public houses * wholly closed,
The Public mind more soberly disposed ;
Were great and rich men's feasts less costly food,
More of ' the luxury of doing good ; '
The Public, — both the Publicans and Sinners, —
I feel convinced, in fact would be the winners :
But, oh ! the music of pounds, shillings, pence,
Has robbed the rulers of all righteous sense ;
True Righteousness alone exalts a nation,
While Godlessness is loss and strength-prostration.
' Who honour Me ' — My Name, My Day, My Word —
' Them will I honour ; ' Mark — thus saith the Lord.
And I was further cheered by reading the healthy and
sensible remarks of the Times leader on the subject shortly
after, when the writer, skilfully steering clear of its theolo
gical niceties and distinctions, enunciated a manly and
practical opinion upon the question.
I have gone, perhaps, somewhat out of the original line
of my letter, in thus noticing a matter, on which I never
theless hope, Eeverend Sir, you and I may meet on common
ground ; nor you and I only, but a very large and influential
number of the sober and sound-minded thinkers and workers
of this great people and nation — both rich and poor, high
and low ; in the Church National, and outside her pale. I
call it common ground. And may the Great and Gracious
* How would this small arrangement affect and touch the rights or wrongs of
those aristocratic Public-houses in the vicinity of Pall Mall, St. James', and
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Son of Man forbid that it should either be enclosed within
a narrower and more confined compass than His own perfect
example and liberal construction authorize or warrant on the
one hand ; or, on the other, that it should be thrown open
indiscriminately to the " Jew,* Turk, infidel and heretic" to
trample down its sweet and pleasant pastures, and to foul its
quiet still waters with their ungodly, irreligious, and anti-
sabbatarian, and anti-common-sense-arian (there's a grand
word, Sir, for you !) hoof and heel. There is a proposition
which occurs to my clear and penetrating vision ; What if the
Directors and Shareholders of that, at present, Great (Trans
parent Sham !) Glass House were to convert it into a Grand
Catholic National Cathedral of Light, for " all sorts and
conditions of men," " admission free," " without money and
without price,"f according to the instructions of the Great
Head and High Priest of the Church — on the Lord's Own
Day ; with some learned and discreet Bishop or wise Minis
ter and Ambassador for Christ,} who might, after solemn
spiritual and holy worship, prayer, and praise, conducted
" decently and in order," harangue and " reason of righteous
ness, temperance, and judgment to come" the multitudes
that might be assembled to hear of the things touching
their temporal and eternal interests ! What, I say, might
not be the result of such a movement or step in the right
direction? I venture to believe that the interests of the
Directors, Shareholders, and others connected with the
concern would be thirty, sixty, nay an hundred-fold ad
vanced and profited thereby ;§ for the Son of Man Himself
* See note (h) at end.
t See Isaiah lv. 1 ; lvi. 7 ; Matthew xxi. 13; Mark xi. 17.
t Let us say the Rev. Barnabas Boanerges, who, being by his baptismal name
Son of Consolation, may be able to speak a word of comfort in season to them that
are weary; and being also Son of Thunder, might arouse the sleeping, and awake
the dead from their sin-and-trespass death.
| The great and good Sir Matthew Hale, one of England's worthies and right
honourable judges, has left on record his witness and experience on the due

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has asked the unanswerable question " What shall it profit
a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
The week-day work, recreation, and machinery in general
would, I thoroughly believe, run all the more smoothly,
harmoniously, and merrily for being sanctified and anointed
with the holy golden oil of genuine, sound, anti-cant-of-
every-sort, Sabbatarianism ! *
Sir, such is modestly, yet faithfully, my public and
private opinion, which I fearlessly submit to the conscience
and consideration of private and public men, and enter
prising companies.
And now, Reverend Sir, I must wind up my Ironicon
and bring its plain-spoken utterances to a close. You, Sir,
and your scholarly " Eirenicon " have been — unwittingly, I
trow — the head and front of mine offending. I read
your work ; I was astonied ; I almost trembled. I asked
counsel of my God ; I threw myself at His feet — His
Gracious, Princely feet ; the hem of Whose robe of light,
honour, and glory I was absolutely unworthy to touch with
my sin-polluted lips; yet I asked: — Might the Spirit of
power, of love, and of a sound mind be breathed upon me ;
inspire me ;f me, an unknown, unlettered worm of a Gentile
race ; might I proclaim the Name and Fame of Jesus of
Nazareth ? the Name above every name ; only Excellent
observance of the Lord's own Day.* It has become a Christian household word and
golden maxim in the following form : —
A Sunday well spent
Brings a week of content,
And health for the toils of the morrow :
But a Sabbath profaned,
Whatsoe'er may be gained,
Is a certain forerunner of sorrow.
* See note (k) at end.
t My beloved Mother-Church has taught me from my youth up to pray,
" Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom
no secrets are hid; cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of Thy Holy
Spirit, that we may perfectly love Thee, and worthily magnify Thy Holy Name ;
through Christ our Lord. Amen." I knew the case of a friend (the late Sir
G. B.) who found this short fervent prayer very effectual and comforting in the
silent watches of the night, when, lying on his bed of languishing, the evil thoughts
and memories of former transgressions and the sins of youth came in upon him as a
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and only Exalted ; might I, " for the advancement of Thy
Glory, the good of Thy Church, the safety, honour, and
welfare of our Sovereign* and her dominions ;" write a few
earnest plain words. I bought me a quire of foolscap ; I
bought me a well-tempered steel pen ; I filled my inkhorn ;
and I wrote night and day, day and night. My sorrow
was stirred ; my heart and my head were hot within me ;
while I mused the fire burned ; and I spake with my
pen, and though not the pen of a ready writer, yet
" What I have written, I have written," — my small
Anti-papal bull ; my plain, simple Encyclical. " Men,
Brethren, and Fathers in God and in Christ " — Honourable
men and Honourable women — hearken. I speak as unto
wise men, judge ye : if there be a grain of the pure
wheat of Truth in my earnest pages, read, mark, learn,
and inwardly digest; refuse, reject the chaff— "What
is the chaff to the wheat?" May He in Whom are hid all
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, give us all under
standing in all things ; that so we may prove all things by
the only infallible test of " His own Word which endureth
for ever, and which is the Gospel ; the glorious, the blessed,
the everlasting Gospel of the Glorious, the Blessed, the
Everlasting God, made known unto all nations for the
obedience of faith."
Beverend and Learned Sir,
I am Faithfully and Fearlessly yours,
ANGLO-SAXON.
Let us now sing the Doxology in the Greek tongue :—
Tw ®Efi Moyw Sopw
To/IIATPI, T.T1Q, TVIiNEYMATI 'Arm,
'H T//x.n, x«i 'H Ao£« its Alma Aiuvwv. 'Aft-h.
' Fain would I hiss that regal fair white hand
Whose sceptre sways both white and black man's land ;
So Boyal a Salute would do me good,
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I will then call on you to pronounce the benediction,
" The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep
our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God,
and of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord ; and the blessing of
God Almighty — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,
rest upon us and be with us, now and ever." And I will
myself add the Apostolic blessing and formula, "The
Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and the
Communion of the Holy Ghost, be with us all." And
Paul's own sublime and majestic denunciation, " If any man
love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema."
MAEAN-ATHA.*
(Which, being interpreted, meaneth)
"THE LORD COMETH." f
" Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come,
Lord Jesus."
Amen.
Bath; January, 1866.

* " Maran-atha is an Aramaic expression for ' the Lord cometh,' and is probably
unconnected with ' Anathema' . . . . : a weighty watchword tending to recall the
nearness of His coming, and the duty of being found ready for it." (See Dean
Alford's New Testament for English readers, 1 Corinthians xvi. 22 ; Notes, p. 248.)
t See Appendix; Eevelations xix. 11 — 21.

POSTSCRIPT.

I add a few brief forcible words as a Postscript to
my Epistle. And, as for my motto-page, so will I again
quote from the words of the noble old Patriarch, of whom it
is recorded that " the Lord blessed the latter end of Job
more than the beginning." He says, " Oh, that one would
hear me ! behold, my sign is that the Almighty will answer
me (I take the marginal reading) and that mine adversary
had written a book."
We, I trust, Eeverend Sir, shall be found Friends in the
common faith and cause. Hear, too, these pregnant words
from the same earnest thinker, from whose letters I have
also taken one of my motto sentences ; — " A solemn thought
for England ! it matters not what our ancestry have been ;
not our wealth, nor our dazzling power will save us.
Better to have a glorious future than to have had a glorious
past." (Robertson's Letters, p. 335.) Acting upon "this
glorious supposition " (as sweet Will-o'-the-wisp hath it)
that by the favour, protection, and blessing of the King of
nations, and Prince of the kings of the earth upon our
Grand Ancient Church, Throne and State, we may have a
future equally — nay more — glorious than our forefathers'
blood-bought past, I have penned my small modest and
earnest epistle, Reverend Sir, to you, in the hope that
Your Eirenicon and My Ironicon
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from Land's End to John o'Groat's ; from Flamborough
Head to Bantry Bay ; — yours as a soothing soporific ;
mine an alterative tonic stimulant, and combine to raise a
grand unanimous, universal, and univocal Anglo-Saxon
shout, and roar from the Great British Lion of
" No Peace with Rome." *
For, as Will hath it
" Great men tremhle when the Lion roars."
Glory be to Thee, O Lord !
" Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,
LION of the Tribe of Judah !"

See note (m) at end.

NOTES AND APPENDIX.

Note A.

With reference to the worship of angels, it seems to me that
were I to attempt to offer worship — which the Great God of both
men and angels forbid that I should ever think of doing — to one
even the highest of those holy beings who excel in strength, he
would instantly reply to me, as to the beloved disciple in Patmos,
" See, not, for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that
have the testimony of Jesus : worship God ;" and again, " See
not, for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets,
and of them which keep the sayings of this Book: worship God."
And if even " an angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto
you than that which I have preached unto you, let him be
accursed." Whether he be Pope, Priest, or Daemon, " let him be
accursed." " Ye angels of His that excel in strength, that do His com
mandments, hearkening unto the voice of His Word, help us in the
coming struggle for faith, truth, life, and liberty !"
God and good angels keep the man
Who seeks to win the fight,
Nor sin nor devils ever can
O'erthrow Jehovah's might.
"Are they not (angels) all ministering spirits, sent forth to
minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation ?" (See " Ministry
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This is to be sung by " young men and maidens, old men and
children, with the spirit and with the understanding, with stringed
instruments and organs:"
" We praise thee, 0 God ! we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord."
" To Thee all angels cry aloud : the Heavens, and all the Powers
therein."
" Thou art the King of Glory, 0 Christ.
" Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father.
" When Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver man, thou didst not
abhor the Virgin's womb.
" When Thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst
open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.
*' Thou sittest at the right hand of God, in the Glory of the Father.''
" We believe that Thou shalt come to be our Judge.
" We therefore pray Thee, help thy servants : whom thou hast
redeemed with thy precious blood."
" 0 Lord, in thee have I trusted, let me never be confounded."

Note B.
The Great Head of the Church in His gracious invitation,
" Come unto ME all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest," declares Himself to be " meek and lowly in heart."
Have the Popes of Rome, as a rule, borne and reflected this divine
image and superscription — "meek and lowly in heart?" Was
Pope Firebrand so ? Were Alexander VI. and Caesar Borgia ? Is
the tone of the late Encyclical so ? Are Arch-Pervert Manning,
or the Romish-Irish Bishops, with their great swelling words of
vanity in their verbose and vituperative charges which they are
constantly conceiving and bringing forth to the edification of the
ungodly and the amusement of the profane, so ?
One word, — plain, honest, and earnest, — Doctor Manning, with
you, for you profess and call yourself an Englishman, and therefore
there may be just a spark of light glimmering faintly in your
breast. If you are really in earnest, and desire to be a vessel meet
for the Great Master's use ; take off all your cumbrous and costly
robes ; throw away that Romish rag which you call ' pallium,' why
I know not ; lay aside your crooked staff and top-heavy and heady
headpiece ; don plain, manly, and becoming garments — as all

English gentlemen should — and go forth into the lanes and
byways, the dens and purlieus, of that sin-saturated and poisoned
district and region of Westminster, and with an open ungarbled and
unmutilated copy of God's Holy Word in your right hand, and
His Holy Spirit in your heart and tongue ; preach Jesus Christ
and Him cruoified, the Saviour of sinners ; the Saviour of the lost ;
the Redeemer of the world, to its poor benighted, besotted
heathens — whether baptised Romans, Irish, or English ; — and then
I venture to predict both yourself and many, many among them
shall confess, know, and feel, that " the Gospel of Christ is the
power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;" English
man, Irishman, and also to the Roman, and unto them that are
called — Jew or Gentile — Christ the power of God ; and the wisdom
of God. There, Sir, I, too, have spoken.
In the very impartial account in the chapter on " Persecution "
in Mr. Lecky's erudite work on " Rationalism," I find at page 35,
Snd vol., this plain and emphatic statement : — " That the Church
of Rome has shed more innocent blood (my italics) than any other
institution that ever existed among mankind, will be questioned by no
Protestant who has a competent knowledge of history." (See the
whole passage.) Now if this be so, I would appeal to the common
and righteous sense, first, of English mankind ; second, of mankind
at large, whether she can, by any possibility, be the Church of
Him Who declared that " The Son of Man is not come to destroy
men's lives, but to save them." Again, Mr. Lecky writes, " The
number of those who were put to death for their religion in the
Netherlands alone, in the reign of Charles V., has been estimated
by a very high authority at 50,000, and at least half as many
perished under his son." (35,000 + 50,000 = 75,000 !) In a
foot-note he has, " Grotius says 100,000 ;" and in another note,
quoting Motley's " Rise of the Dutch Republic," vol. ii. p. 155,
thus, " Upon the 16th February, 1568, a sentence of the Holy
Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands to death as
heretics. From this universal (there is Catholicity with a vengeance !)
doom only a few persons, especially named, were excepted. A pro
clamation of the King, dated ten days later, confirmed this decree
of the Inquisition, and ordered it to be carried into instant
execution. . . Three millions (my italics) of people, men, women,
and children, were sentenced to the scaffold in three lines." The
note does not state whether they were positively executed. And
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spare us Protestants. On reading such appalling statements, the
mind almost yields to scepticism . can these things he so ? At
page 39 he says, " All this is very horrible, but it is only a small
part of the misery which the persecuting spirit of Rome has
produced." (See pp. 49 — 50.) The great difficulty that presents
itself to a believing mind from the above and innumerable other
authentic similar details, is, how will it be possible, when the set
time — the day and the hour — for Rome's judgments shall have
arrived, and the decree from the great King of Nations shall go
forth, " Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her
double according unto her works ; in the cup which she hath filled,
fill to her double," to carry it out? Faith can only reverently
and with godly fear answer, that " things which are impossible
with man, are possible with God." Great and marvellous are Thy
works, Lord God Almighty ! Just and true Thy ways, Thou King
of Saints ! for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."

Note C.
Prayer Book. I am indebted to a very able article in The
Contemporary Review — ' Ritualism and Ecclesiastical Law ' — for the
clear and sound proof it affords me that the Ultra-Ritualistic party
may be judged and condemned out of their own mouth, as it were,
when they even refer to the first Prayer Book of Edward the Sixth's
reign. " The second Book was adopted by a committee appointed
in December, 1559. And the commissioners were unanimous in
selecting it, in preference to the first, Sor the Church of England."
(See an able review in the Christian Observer for November,
1865, on the Book of Common Prayer, its History and Interpreta
tion : with Special Reference to Points Disputed in the Present
Day. By the Rev. R. P. Blakeney, LL.D., Incumbent of Christ
Church, Claughten, Birkenhead. London : James Miller, Berners
Street, 1865.)
Note D.
A certain choral Dean hath lately brought forth a small
pamphlet which, tnethinks, was scarcely worth the paper on which
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powers of reasoning are very musical and whimsical. His ergo
seems to be a deduction from his ego, and reminds one comically
enough of John Gilpin's pleasant premises and happy inference : —
" He quick replied, I do admire,
Of womankind but one,
And thou art she, my dearest dear,
Therefore it shall be done."
Which may be thus roughly paraphrased : —
Now, quoth the Dean, the Choristers
Enrolled am I among ;
What should be bravely prayed or said,
Henceforth it shall be sung.
I would here propose to all lovers of the sensational and the
sublime — A Grand Aurora-Boral Choral Roaral Service, all the
powers of Nature joining to swell the grand diapason, thus : —
" Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad ; let the sea
roar, and the fulness thereof. Let the fields be joyful ; let the
floods clap their hands ; let the hills be joyful together ; then shall
all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord ; for He cometh,
He cometh to judge the earth : He shall judge the world with
righteousness, and the people with His truth and equity."
I do bless the Judge of all the Earth, even that Man whom
God hath ordained and appointed (See Acts xvii. 31), that I am
called upon to judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come.
For I am as certain that if I do neither judge nor condemn,
neither shall I be judged nor condemned in that day ; I say, I am
as certain of this fact as I am of that faithful saying so worthy of
all acceptation, " that Christ Jesus came into the world to save
sinners ; of whom I am the chief !"
I shall be well pleased should my rough Ironiconoclastic utter
ances stir up a healthy combined and orderly iconoclastic spirit
and movement throughout the kingdom, for the suppression and
grinding to powder of all ecclesiastical dolls and idols of every
description. Myself I should well like to inaugurate such a
campaign, and, with my two-edged sword in hand, to march all
through the land to purge out of our Churches every image,
picture, or representation, of gold or silver, wood or stone, graven
or painted by art or man's device ; seeing that we men are the
offspring of God, and we ought not to think that the Godhead, or
any one Person thereof, is like unto such childish things. We give

dolls and pictures to our " little ones ;" but as our Great Apostle
aud Free-Thinker says emphatically enough, " When I was a child,
I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought (margin
reasoned) as a child ; but when I became a man, I put away childish
things." So say I, let us who are men, " quit us like men ; be
strong. Let all our things be done with charity ; decently and in
order." So let us undertake this iconoclastic matter in hand,
according to law. We know that the law is on our side ; the
fundamental Church and State principles. As England, in the
time of her nautical triumphs, expected " every man to do his
duty ;" so now the Church of England, in the time of her coming
national triumph and enlargement, expects, nay, commands,
every man, woman, and child — every faithful son and daughter —
to do his and her duty : and " Let the beauty of the Lord our God
be upon us ; and establish Thou the work of our hands upon us ;
yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it."

Note E. — Confessional.
I should like to add a word on this subject. Surely the intro
duction into our Reformed Protestant Church of this subtil and
dangerous ecclesiastical agency is contrary to both the law and
spirit of her teaching. The Apostolic precept is, " Confess your
faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be
healed." In an erudite work lately published (The Rise and
Influence of Rationalism in Europe, by W. E. Lecky, M.A. ; 3 vols.
London : Longman, Green, Longman, & Co.) I find at p. 124, 2nd
vol., this remark :".... the employment by priests of the
confessional for the purpose of seducing the penitents," and in a
foot-note, " Three Popes — Paul IV., Pius IV., and Gregory XV. —
found it necessary to issue bulls on the subject, a fact which will
surprise no one who has glanced over the pages of Sanchez or Dens."
Now, without for one instant imputing any such abominable wick
edness to the misguided men of our own day, who are seeking to
re-introduce this most objectionable obsolete custom, I would simply
ask cui bono ? To what purpose ? Is not the grand confessional —
the Throne of Grace — free and open to all ? Are we not invited,
encouraged to come " boldly, for we have not an High Priest which
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points tempted like as we are, yet without sin ?" Have we not the
promise, free, open to all, " If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous
ness ?" because His blood it is which " cleanseth us from all sin."
Some years ago, while I was " yet carnal, fulfilling the desires
of the flesh and the mind, serving divers lusts aud pleasures," I
happened to meet with a very frail, fair, and fascinating little one ;
in the course of conversation (she was a lady* [?] by birth, education,
and position) she told me that she had " confessed" to a priest — not
a Roman, but one calling himself a minister of the Church of
England — and described the scene thus : — She knelt at his feet, he
the while turning his back upon her, while she poured out the sad
tale of her sorrow and shame. On my asking her what could induce
her thus to confess to a fellow-mortal and fellow-sinner ? she replied,
simply enough, " Oh, he was so holy !" Now, I take it, a more un
holy and fantastic trick was not often played before high Heaven than
that in " this our day." Besides, Eheu ! Eheu ! the pronounced and
pretended absolution had not the desired effect of rescuing the frail
one from the error of her way. I trust she has since fled to the
true refuge and hiding-place —
" To that dear home, safe in Thy wounded side,
Where only broken hearts their sin and shame may hide :''
Chrislian Year ; Good Friday.
and to His sacred, blessed feet which " the woman who was a sin
ner began to wash with tears, and did wipe with the hairs of her
head, and kissed His feet, and anointed them with the ointment :
* I do most honestly thank the Kev. Charles Kingsley for the light he has thrown
upon the true meaning of those two misunderstood and misapplied terms "lady"
and " gentleman." Would that I could speak as favourably of all his teaching.
Yet again, with one marked exception, I thank him for his manly, noble sermons on
the character of David (as also for his spirited tale, iu Good Words for 1865, of
«' Hereward, the Last of the English "). The exception I take is this. He says,
" David does not speak of having offended God "—I quote from memory. No !
What, then, is the meaning of that sin-wrnng agonizing cry, " Against Thee, Thee
only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight," as though he heard the very
thunders of Sinai, crashing and tearing through his soul, "Thou shalt do no
murder," "Thou shalt not commit adultery;" and what could have given him peace
and cleanness of heart, but faith in the One True Sacrifice and the one only true
shedding of blood for the remission of sins? Oh ! most noble Professor of History
(for I do esteem thee greatly), search the Scriptures daily whether these things be
so; and the Great High Priest Himself and the Spirit of Truth give thee and me
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and he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee— wgeiau *"
n'fww — Q0 in peace." May we meet clothed in white — poor
frail one ! — before His Throne, having washed our robes, and made
them white in the blood of the Lamb !
A faithful and bold minister of Christ, and steward of the mys
teries of God — yea, an Ambassador for Christ — has lately put into
my hand a small book, with this awakening title :*
Nox processerit :
Dies autem appropinquavit.
(I do honestly and heartily thank him.) For while there be such
faithful, fearless, and earnest witnesses amongst us for Christ's love,
truth, and grace, my heart shall rejoice and take courage. I
should like to see that ' little book' widely circulated. My Brother,
I thank thee, from the ground of my sin-withered, yet Jesos
CHniBi-healed heart, I thank thee, for thy faithful love and loving
faithfulness. Thou hast hit me hard : but I trust I can now say,
with my father David, " Let the righteous smite me : it shall be a
kindness ; and let him reprove me : it shall be an excellent oil,
which shall not break my head." May the Great Head of the
Church and Lord of the harvest ' only speak the word,' and great
shall be the company (the army) of those that publish, and of the
preachers of, the glad tidings of " Redemption through His blood,
even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace."

Note F. — Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons.
It may have been noticed that I have more than once referred
to these apostolically ordained " orders " in the Primitive Apos
tolic Church. I should think no sane-minded Dissenter and
Nonconformist — lay or clerical — will be inclined to dispute or object
to the undoubted warrant from pure Scripture undefiled for these
three distinctive grades or ranks of Church dignitaries. How the
word " Priest " ever crept into our modern English Bibles and
Prayer-Books I know not ; for I find that in " the authorized text
of the three Royal editions of our English Bible published since
the Reformation " that the second Apostolic order or title is rendered
" Elders " or " Presbyters ; " 1st, King Henry VHL's Bible, folio,
German text, 1572 (this is also called Archbishop Craumer's
* Edinburgh : Constable, Printer to the Queen, 1865.

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Bible) ; 2nd, Queen Elizabeth's Bible, quarto, 1599 ; 3rd, King
James's Bible, quarto. I further find the following proofs deduced
from the original Latin Article of the London Synod, 1552, con
cerning the Marriage* of these orders of our English Clergy ;— from
the 32nd and 36th Articles of the London Convocation held in
1562, concerning the Marriage and Ordination ofthe Clergy of the
Church of England ;— from a Latin Liturgy published in 1720
(3rd edition) ; — and from the opinions of the Reformers : that there
were three instituted orders and titles of Church of England
ministers at the Reformation (in Latin, " Episeopis, Presbyteris, et
Diaconis"), Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons. There are also
collateral proofs of the word '' Presbyter " being the orthodox title
of the second order of our Church of England ministers at and
after the Reformation, from the Liturgy of the English Church in
the Latin tongue ; 1st, a Liturgy, or Book of Common Prayer, in
Latin (3rd Edition, London, 1720), dedicated to William, Archbishop
of York ; — 2nd, the 3rd Edition of the Anglican Liturgy in Latin,
London, 1720. The judicious Hooker, the Reverend and learned
Joseph Mede, B.D., aud an ancient learned divine, Dr. Hadrian
Saravia (whose tract, however, appears to have been grievously
mis-titled, by those who re-edited it at Oxford in 1840, for he speaks
of " Holy Bishops and Presbyters, truly so-called, according to the
rules of the Word of God and of the old councils," see p. 32), have
each and all set the seal of their learned sanction to these three
apostolically ordained titles, " Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons."
So I think I may fairly be considered to have made a just and
lawful use of these terms in my unlearned Ironicon.
If it be argued that the word " Priest " is used merely as an
abbreviation of the longer term " Presbyter," the point is at once
conceded in that sense; for we are all — every believer in the One
Great High Priest, and the One Sacrifice offered up by Himself,
and Himself alone, once for all — members of that " Royal
Priesthood, Holy Nation, Peculiar Purchased People, to offer up
Spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ ; that we
should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called us out of dark
ness into His marvellous light." But do not let us have any more
altars with their embroidered cloths, and false imitation sacrifices,
and " dead flies " and priests of death ! What ! Are we not all
honourable men ? and can there be any more honourable calling or
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title than the Apostolic one of " Ministers of Christ, and Stewards
of the Mysteries of God ?" Are they ambitious ? What more noble —
what more exalted dignity than to be an " Ambassador for Christ ?"
to bear the message of reconciliation to His rebel subjects from the
Great King and the Great King's Son, who is soon Himself about
to return to reign, and put all enemies under his feet, and to deli
ver up the kingdom to God, even the Father, that God may be all
in all. Then shall we all — Bishops, Presbyters, Deacons, and
Laymen, be Kings and Priests unto God and His Father : and we
shall reign on the earth. " Now unto the King Eternal, Immortal,
Invisible, the only wise God, the blessed and only Potentate, the
King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Who only hath immortality,
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, Whom no
man hath seen, nor can see ; to Him be glory, honour, and power
everlasting : Amen." For the above Episcopalian, Presbyterian, and
Diaconal information, see an able Pamphlet, " The Antichrist of
Priesthood," by the late Rev. Reginald Rabbett, M.A., London.
Published by W. H. Dalton, 28, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Price 2s. 6d. In Webster's English Dictionary, eighth edition, 1860,
under the word " Priest," I find, " In the Protestant Episcopal
Church, a Presbyter ; one who belongs to the intermediate order
between Bishop and Deacon."

Note G.
It is one thing, I imagine, to
"¦fiide a cock-horse
To Banbury Cross,"
— that is, to write capital stories for schoolboys ; but quite another
to represent " The British Workman " in the British House of
Commons. The new Member for Lambeth, will, I trust, prove
himself a faithful and honourable member, and maintainer of the
principles of our forefathers' blood-bought Protestant Constitution.
Talking of pamphlets — mine is one, — there is a capital sixpenny
worth of " a critique " upon the new Member for Westminster's
pseudo-philosophy, by Joseph Parker, D.D., an eminent Non-con
formist divine (London : Pitman, Paternoster-row, 1865). We are
also promised some able papers on the same subject in the pages of
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" honourable men" as the Dean of Westminster, and the Professor
of Modern History at Cambridge, should be found endorsing the
presumptuous nonsense of this puny philosopher. To think that
man, vain man, puffed up with a little shallow knowledge, should
presume to attempt to measure the Infinite by the span-like con
ceptions of his own sin-distorted and twisted mind. As the prophet
with sublime irony asks, " Who hath measured the waters in the
hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and com
prehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the
mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? Who hath directed
the Spirit of the Lord, or being His counsellor hath taught Him ?
With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught
Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge, and
shewed to Him the way of understanding ? Behold, the nations are
as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the
balance ; behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient
for a burnt-offering. All nations before Him are as nothing; and
they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity." Such
proud, childish utterances as those I allude to may be termed Intel
lectual Idolatry of a precisely analagous character to the vain,
materialistic imaginations of the Pagan, whom the same Evangelical
Prophet thus satirizes : " He heweth him down cedars, and taketh
the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among
the trees of the forest : he planteth an ash and the rain doth
nourish it. Then shall it he for a man to burn : for he will take
thereof, and warm himself ; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread ;
yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it ; he maketh it a graven
image, and falleth down thereto. He burneth part thereof in the
fire ; with part thereof he eateth flesh ; he roasteth roast, and is
satisfied : yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I
have seen the fire : and the residue thereof he maketh a god, even
his graven image : he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and
prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me ; for thou art my god. They
have not known nor understood : for he hath shut their eyes, that
they cannot see ; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge or
understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire ; yea, also
I have baked bread upon the coals thereof ; I have roasted flesh and
eaten it : and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination ?
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deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his
soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ?" So these
proud, vain philosophers, puffed up in their vain fleshly mind, boast
that they cannot believe (will not) in a God who does not fit into
the span-like conceptions of their own intellectual imaginations !
" Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools."
" He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh ; the Lord shall
have them in derision." For he knoweth that
Vain man's vain thoughts are vain.
" For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild
ass's colt." " Canst thou by searching find out God ? Canst thou
find Him out to perfection ? It is as high as heaven ; what canst
thou do ? deeper than hell, what canst thou know ? The measure
thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. It is
He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers. He turneth wise men backward, and
maketh their knowledge foolish."
I was highly amused, nay,
" 1 did laugh, sans intermission,"
when I read the account of the manner in which voters were
brought up to the scratch for that electioneering Purist who loftily
scorns all bribery and corruption ; it was stated that many voters
were brought up in cabs paid for by his aristocratic co-member on
liberal principles. A most liberal and pure proceeding sans doute.
The God of Nature, Providence, and Grace, seemeth also to be
frustrating the tokens of the liars, and to be making the weather-
wise and the other-wise prophets and diviners mad ; here are three
titles of prophecy books taken at random — " Louis Napoleon, the
destined Emperor of the world ; King of the Jews ! &c, &c, &c." —
" ' The Day and the Hour.' This book is Napoleonic in its drift, and
shows us to what extremes the Napoleonists are moving. It tells
us that Louis Napoleon is to sign a covenant with the Jews on the
27th of October, 1871 ; that the first resurrection is to take place
on the 6th December, 1874, and the translation of the saints at one
o'clock a.m. on the 25th January, 1875 ; and that Christ is to
descend to Olivet at sunset, September 20, 1878. From these
pieces of information our readers may judge of the book."* — And a
queer little tract, " The Saturday Night of the World." Good
night, my poor friends, good night. Ye are all mad — mad as
maniacs, or as my friend the arch-priest of the man-monkey race.
* See " Quarterly •"•.  -,'•••• ~ ¦¦» ¦- -, _¦ "

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Myself— I'm not a olever man— a man of science,
I do not always place too much reliance
Upon the crude vagaries and varieties
Of so-called learned boobies or societies ;
Some names have A. S. S. before, some after,
I treat them all with charitable laughter :
That's why they're nominated "men of letters,"
Thus name-cuffed with their alphabetic fetters.
Here's a Professor — P. G. S.* — no matter,
The man's as mad as any hare or hatter :
*' I do propound, sir, man is but a monkey :" —
Gooroof Gorilla ! thou art Satan's flunkey !
Where is his tail ? Ah, thereby hangs a tale !
Which doth a human head with brains entail ;
And so as " heads or tails" we toss, you see,
I win, you lose : — most learned Chimpanzee !
In God's great Book the glorious tale I scan,
In His own image God created man.

Note H. — Jews.
I would earnestly, faithfully, and affectionately appeal to my
countrymen of the House of Israel who may be looking forward to a
return to their own land, and the national and spiritual blessings
and honours yet in store for them : — I, a Gentile believer, — whether
it might not be advisable to believe on and receive " Jesus of
Nazareth, the King of the Jews " ere His second coming, to
their present and everlasting peace, prosperity, and honour ; they
will assuredly have to do so when that glorious event does transpire.
It is not for me to judge their consciences, of course. But it does
seem an anomalous and abnormal proceeding for " Jews " to be
sitting in the British House of Commons, the Parliament of a

• P.G.S.— President Gorilla Society. How true it is that
" One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
Equally so— One stroke of humour makes the whole world laugh.
Myself I see no insuperable intellectual difficulty that 'we men' may not be sprung originally
from " the man in the moon," or " the old man of the sea," or even from " the image which
fell down from Jupiter," or yet from the laughing hyena, or the mocking bird :— or any
other fabulous heathen myth, or profane old wives' fable, or other opposition of science and
philosophy, falsely so called, save and except always that one small, sublime, ancient revealed
truth, "So God created man in His image, in the image of God created He him; male and
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Gentile nation, unless we be, as some have vainly endeavoured to
prove, the descendants of the " Lost Tribes." It reminds one of
the Apostolic (he, who was " of the stock of Israel, the tribe of
Benjamin*— an Hebrew of the Hebrews ") dictum, " He is not
a Jew who is one outwardly ; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly."
By this mode of reasoning, I myself, sprung of a Gentile stock, may
be a Jew — an Israelite indeed, in His sight who is Lord and King
of both Jew and Gentile,-)- Gentile and Jew : and Who shall yet
have " the heathen for His inheritance, and the uttermost part of
the earth for His possession ; to Whose name every knee shall
bow, in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth ; and every
tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of
God the Father." Or as David, speaking by the Holy Ghost,
" that men may know that Thou Whose name alone is Jehovah
art the Most High over all the earth."
I am also looking forward by faith to the time when, — instead
of crazy monks, Latin or Greek, fighting and killing} each other in
the so-called " holy places," scrambling for " Greek fire," the pro
duct of a lucifer match, and blasphemously declared to be fire from
Heaven, — " There shall yet be (for thus saith the Lord of Hosts)
old men and old women dwelling in the streets of Jerusalem, and
every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets
of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets
' thereof." Instead of idle drones — Latin and Greek priests, monks,
and mountebanks. " Thus saith the Lord of Hosts : if it be mar
vellous (margin, hard or difficult) in the eyes of the remnant of
this people in these days, should it be marvellous in mine eyes ?
saith the Lord of Hosts. In those days it shall come to pass that
ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even
shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, (Rothschild, Gold-
smid, Salomons, and Co., to wit ?) saying, " We will go with you :
for we have heard that God is with you, saith the Lord of Hosts."
* We have little Benjamin, their leader, at the head of the Opposition.
t See Appendix, Galatians vi. 14.
J On one occasion in this Christian brotherly-love scum's there were upwards ot
one hundred people killed ! and the fraternal row was only suppressed by the armed
interference of the Turkish Guard, the followers of the False Prophet! A truly
edifying scene to saints on earth, angels in heaven, and devils in the air, upon the
supposed site of the sepulchre of the murdered Prince of Peace. (See Acts iii. 14,
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On this principle and ground, but on no other, can I understand
the admission on our part, and the entrance on theirs, on to the floor
of the British House of Commons, and their footing there, of the
lost sheep ofthe House of Israel. Were I "a Regius Professor of
Hebrew," I think that instead of seeking to bring about an impos
sible union with the corrupt Church of Rome, I would endeavour,
like Apollos of old, to convince mightily the Jew, publicly and pri
vately, shewing him by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

Note K.
I cannot resist the feeling which prompts me to add a note of
admiration on that most excellent and Christian-toned paper in the
first number of The Contemporary Review, on " Sunday," by the Rev.
E. H. Plumptre, M.A. Would God that all the Lord's Ministers
and Ambassadors were men of like-mind ; and that the Lord of
the Sabbath would put more of His Own " Free* and Princely
Spirit " upon them ! Then, indeed, they might stir up the people,
high and low, to a right royal enjoyment of the Lord's Own Day in
spirit and in deed and in truth ; both to call aud feel it a " delight,
the Holy of the Lord, Honourable ; then should the people
delight themselves in Him" — the Gracious Son of Man — and
He, the King of Nations, would again cause " Old England" to
" ride upon the high places of the earth ;" which, methinks, she
has sadly ceased to do since that fatal and most crooked-sighted
unstatesmanlike repeal of that little Romish Liability Company
Bill in 1829 ; and notably since the Crimean War.

Note M. — St. Peter's.
It is a remarkable fact, lately cropping up from the incrustations
of ages, not without a deep significancy to those who can penetrate
beneath the surface crust of such things, and one for which I am
indebted to that eloquent discourse of the Dean of Westminster,!
• See a modest little foot-note in the Christian Year (piece for 6th Sunday after
Trinity) on Psalm li. 12. See also Appendix, 2 Cor. iii. 17, 18.
t Would that those eloquent Divines, the Dean of Westminster and the Eev.
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as I read it in the columns of the Times — that Westminster
Abbey was originally dedicated by Edward the Confessor to
St. Peter. " Eight hundred years have passed since on this
day the abbey was completed and dedicated which, like the
Temple of the Jews, was beautified and adorned beyond all other
buildings, and in its magnificence swept away every vestige of that
which was left of the work of earlier times. We know not what
existed here before, or whether it was the Royal Edgar, the doubtful
Sebert, or the still more doubtful Lucius, who first erected a fane
for the worship of God amid the entangled thickets and stagnant
waters of Thorney Island, divided by many a stream, and not a few
green meadows, from the Roman fortress on the distant hills of
London. We need not go back to them. We may be content to
carry our thoughts back for eight centuries, when the act was
completed which first fixed the destinies of this building and this
spot for all future time. There is something in the simple words of
the Saxon chronicler in recording this event, which finds an echo in
the words of the text, ' At mid-winter King Edward came to West
minster, and had the minster there consecrated which he had
himself built to the honour of God and of St. Peter, and of all
God's saints.' " So, then, we English have actually in our metro
politan see and capital of our kingdom, both in its east and west
divisions, our two chief national cathedrals honoured with the names
of the two Great Apostles to both the Jews and Gentiles ! and not
only so, but as a faithful man of God and minister of Christ's
Gospel told me the other day ; our ancient church or archiepiscopal
cathedral of Canterbury is consecrated to Christ Himself, the Great
and Gracious Head and High-Priest over all, blessed for ever !
What want we with communion or intercommunion with Rome or
Greek* corrupt communions ? Let them purify and reform them-
for the " sound critical understanding "or misunderstanding thereof ; but rather
with " Pure eyes and Christian hearts,"
11 as little children ;" then, methinks, we should have a clearer, sounder, and less
uncertain ring from their otherwise eloquent pulpits.
* While on the subject of absurdities, one might be permitted to ask if there
could well be anything more absurd — more egregiously preposterous — than that
conference of High Church English Bishops with Counts Orloff and Tolstoi, and the
Reverend Papa Popoff, held lately in London, to promote intercommunion, if not a
a thorough league and covenant, between the Anglican and the Russo-Greek
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selves thoroughly, radically, after Christ and His apostolically
founded precepts and principles, and then we will take the matter
into consideration. My own simple impression of St. Peter's at
Rome, from all that I have heard and readf of it is, that it is neither
more nor less than a gigantic Modern-Pagan temple ! I have read
somewhere that a huge crack has been discovered in its material
dome. Is this one of those forecasting shadows of coming events,
when the whole false spiritual and material system shall totter to
its rickety base ? —
" And like an insubstantial pageant fade, and
Leave not a rack behind."
Romanism has been called, by one of no mean authority, " The
master-piece of Satan." And from all that can be gleaned from
silly movement, which seems to have sprung originally from the brain of some non-
juring D.D. ofthe Sacheverell school in the reign of Queen Anne, and which was
revived about two years ago, not in England, but in the United States, by a few rest
less divines of the Episcopal Church there. Having heard that the Emperor of
Russia is the head of the Church in his dominions, as Queen Victoria is at the head
ofthe Church in England from the Land's End to Berwick-upon-Tweed ; that Rus
sian priests are allowed to marry ; and that the Cup is, under certain circumstances,
given to the laity, the good English prelates appear to have j umped to the conclusion
that to establish a bond of union between the Greek and Anglican communions
would be the easiest thing in the world. The Bishop of Oxford is said to be a learned
man. Has he ever studied the history of the Greek Church in Russia ? Has he
ever made any inquiries into its economy or disclipine ? Has he ever conversed with
any one who has seen Mass performed in a Russo-Greek church ? Does he know that
the Russo-Greeks form but a seventh part of the Eastern Church, and are held to
be schismatics by the Patriarch of Constantinople ? Does he know that, apart from
any question of doctrine, the practice of the Greek Church would be ten times more
offensive to English Protestants than any details of Roman Catholic worship ; that
it is a church full of gorgeous vestments, wax candles, miraculous pictures, three-
handed virgins, blackfaced virgins, invocations of saints, pilgrimages to shrines,
mendicant friars, blessed beads and amulets, long and exhaustive fasts and supersti
tious observances innumerable? Counts Orloff and Tolstoi, and Father Popoff>
knowing the real state ofthe case, appear to have acted with infinite courtesy and
discretion. They gently threw cold water on the project ; and when his Grace of
Canterbury proposed to send two clergymen — the foreign press say " bishops" — to
Russia to break ground in the work of reconciliation, Count Orloff begged him not
to do anything of the kind, but to leave the blessed consummation to time and
Heaven's good pleasure. A week in the Troitza would rather astonish the High
Church envoys, I think. — Mr. Sala on the Union of the English and Greek Churches'
" The great and good Dr. Pusey," says a local paper, " was at Bordeaux the other
day ; he had several interviews with the cardinal archbishop and passed the Sunday
in the monastery of the Dominican fathers."
t I beg to thank the Dean of Canterbury for those capital " Papers " of his on
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both friend and foe, it should seem to be a most cunningly devised
system concocted and completed by that old Serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan — the Dragon, — which deceiveth the whole world :
an arch-amalgam of Ancient Paganism — one of the Pope's titles is
Pontifex Maximus : Judaism — its wilfully persisted in repetition
of the Sacrifice offered up once for all : and corrupted, travestied
Christianity ! If this be so ; it may be that ere long a right Royal
Proclamation shall go forth from the great King of Saints, Nations,
Ages, (see Revelations xv. 3, text and margin,) the great Head and
High Priest over all to His Church, the Chief Shepherd and Bishop
of our souls to this effect, " And I heard a voice from heaven say
ing, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her
sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have
reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Re
ward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double
according to her works : in the cup which she hath filled fill to her
double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her : for she saith in her heart, I
sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore
shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine ;
and she shall be utterly burned with fire : for strong is the Lord
God who judgeth her."
" Awake, awake ! put on strength, 0 Arm of the Lord !
Awake as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art Thou
not It that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the Dragon ?"

Nota Bene. — In concluding these rough notes, I must request
my more critical readers not to be too captious should they meet
with occasional irregularities in the punctuation. The general
public are, I am happy to believe, not much more instructed in this
branch of middle or upper-class education than mine own self. I ma
add that^jfrom thd. time/oY the first xionpeiving,
ing forth of iny Bantling, I/have cotife]
Zd" as touching^it, saver 'my worthy
ilerrt, thoVgh slyly* dissentirig' and slightly dilatory /printer,
or two oi^his little*- devils."

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I have thought it meet, right, and my bounden duty to add a few
" Spiritual Songs" as an Appendix to my Ironicon, for I have
Apostolic authority for so doing ; and in these days, when there is
so much vain talk about Apostolic succession, it seemed good to me
also, 0 most excellent English people ! to look well into Apostolic
doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, &c. And most of my small
Pieces appended treat of points touched upon in my rough and
rugged prose.

THE THREE MARYS.
Luke i. 26-38. John xii. 3. John xx. 1-18.
Mart ! thrice-favoured name
Mentioned in sacred story,
Virgin — to whom the angel came
Robed in resplendent glory.
Mary — who wiped the feet,
With her luxuriant tresses,
Of Jesus, as He sat at meat,
And bathed them with caresses.
Poor Mary Magdalene !
Her mournful vigil keeping,
Who, early at the tomb was seen
In lonely sorrow weeping.
0 sweet, thrice-honoured name !
Embalmed in sacred story,
Enriched with more than monarch's fame,
Or earthly hero's glory !

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THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS.
' Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to mmister for them who shall
be heirs of salvation T— Hebrews i. 14.
Heirs of Salvation ! bright angels attending
Minist'ring spirits sent forth from on high,
Guiding, ' encamping around,'* and defending,
By day and by night ever hovering nigh.
' Chariots and horses of fire '\ surround us,
Veiled though they be from our sin-clouded sight, —
Yet still ascending, descending around us,
As the bright dream} of the ladder of light.
What though fell powers of darkness § assailing
Foul ' wicked spirits 'with hell-furnished might,
Wrestling in prayer, with Jehovah prevailing,
We shall as ' Princes of God '|| win the fight.
Heirs of Salvation and Glory immortal !
Lift up your heads, bright ' redemption draws nigh,'
Soon shall fly open the heavenly portal,
Soon shall return our loved King from on high.
Princes and powers of darkness whose legions
Long have disturbed and disputed His sway ;
Hurled into flaming unquenchable regions,
Shall flee from His presence in dire dismay.
Lift up your heads, ye sealed heirs of Salvation !
See the Great Prince coming forth in his might ;
Ye shall inherit the fair new creation,
Citizen saints of the Kingdom of Light.
* Psalm xxxiv. 7. \ 2 Kings vi. 16-17. % Genesis xxxiii. 12.
§ Ephesians vi. 12. || Genesis xxxii. 26-27.

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PSALM XX.
0 hear, iu the day of my trouble, 0 Lord !
God of Jacob! Thy Name my deliv'rance afford,
Send me help aud support from Thy Zion above,
And strengthen my spirit with soul-soothing love.
My heart's best desires, petitions fulfil,
Establish Thy counsel, Thy thought, and Thy will,
My sacrifice own of thanksgiving and praise,
As the banner of truth and salvation I raise.
I know that the Lord His anointed will hear,
With the strength of His own saving hand will draw near,
From the height of His heaven of holiness bend,
To succour, sustain, to deliver, defend.
Some trust in themselves, and vaingloriously boast
Of their chariots, their horses, their panoplied host, —
Their science and wisdom, their riches and might,
While groping in darkness believe they have light.
But we will remember the name of the Lord,
The praise of the God of Salvation record,
The grace, truth, and glory of Jesus proclaim,
And tell of His matchless perfection and fame.
How fallen the mighty ! the valiant succumb,
The boasters are silent, astonied, and dumb,
The meek are uplifted, and shine as the light,
For the Lord is their shield, their salvation, and might !
Save, Gracious Redeemer ! before Whom we fall,
King of Glory enthroned ! O hear when we call,
Arise for our help, our deliv'rance at length,
Arrayed in Thy majesty, beauty, and strength !

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PSALM XLVI.
God is our refuge, strength, and aid,
A present help in troublous hours,
We will not fear, nor be dismay'd,
Though rage the fierce infernal powers.
Though earth remove, — tho' rock the world, —
Though oceans swell with monstrous waves, —
Though mountains from their base be hurl'd, —
Winds rend their adamantine caves.
There is a river whose clear streams,
Gladden the city of our God,*
Jehovah's glory sheds bright beams
O'er golden streets by angels trod.
God and the Lamb, its sun and shield,
Let nations, thrones, and kingdoms shake ;
Christ's majesty shall be reveal'd,
When the bright morning's dawn shall break.
When at the archangel's clarion-voice,
Both heaven and earth shall melt away ;
Then saints triumphant shall rejoice,
When bursts redemption's promised day.
Behold what wonders God has wrought,
What desolations He hath made ;
Empires and kingdoms swept to nought,
w Crown, sceptres, thrones, in ruins laid.
The Lord of Hosts is with us still,
Our refuge, lofty hiding-place,
Great Jacob's God ! whose sovereign will
Rules nature, providence, and grace,
* Revelation xxi. 10, 11, 18, 21, 22; xxii. 1—5.

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He makes wild wars and bloodshed cease,
Destruction, death, and hell destroys,
Proclaims His thousand years of peace,
His reign of everlasting joys.
Be still, and know that I am God,
O'er earth I will exalted be ;
My royal righteous sceptre-rod,
All flesh shall own — My glory see.
The Lord of Hosts is with us still,
Our refuge, rock, and tower of grace ;
Great Jacob's God ! His praises fill
The realms of light thro' boundless space.

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PSALM lx. 4. PSALM xx. 5.
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because
of the truth."
" In the name of God we will set up our banners."
Unfurl the banner of the Cross,
Lift up the standard high,
Count all things but as worthless dross,
' Redemption draweth nigh.'
The cause of meekness, truth, and love
Of justice and of right
Shall prosper, aided from above,
Christ's majesty and might.
Bravely the banner be display'd,
Waved high the flag of life,
No heart be moved, distressed, dismay 'd,
Though deadly be the strife.
Our King Himself hath fought and won,
And now He reigns supreme ;
That King is God's own glorious Son —
The heavenly harpers' theme.
'Tis Jesus Christ, the brave God-Man !
Heaven and earth's true King ;*
He nobly to our rescue ran, —
Of Him I boast, I sing.
The Lord's own Christ, ' the Son of God ! '
And blessed Mary's son, —
He only hath the wine-press trod,
Salvation He hath won.
* Jeremiah x. 10.

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The Lamb of God 1 ' the Son of Man,'
Despised, reject of men ;
In God's great Book the tale I scan,
And trace the golden vein.
Prophets of old, in ' sayings dark,'
Lay the foundation deep ;
And in this everlasting ark,
The saints securely sleep.
Apostles swell the glorious strain,
And to the dazzling light,
They point with keener gaze again,
, Direct the yearning sight :
To His exalted matchless fame —
His majesty and love,
His wondrous beauty, noble Name,
Joy of the saint above. I(l
A. Is
Aloft our banners, comrades, raise,
And as we march along,
We'll shout and swell Jehovah's praise,
And sing the Lamb's own song.

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A SPIRITUAL BATTLE SONG,
FOE
A GOOD SOLDIEK OF JESUS CHEIST.
2 Timothy ii. 3. Ephesians vi. 10—17.
Great Captain of salvation's host ! *
By suffering perfect made ;
I sing Thy praises, shout, and boast,
And wave my glittering blade.
Thy righteousness my strong cuirass,
Both breast and back protects,
My helmet bright as polished brass,
Salvation's light reflects.
The proven, precious, golden shield
To meet th' oppressor's dart ;
The keen two-edged sword to wield
With Christ-like skill and art.
Thus clad in armour of my God
On left hand and on right,
I tread the field brave saints have trod,
Strong in my Captain's might.
Strong to advance, and strong to stand,
In phalanx firm and true,
Christ's soldiers move at His command,
Their heav'n-ward pathway hew.
Though legions of satanic foes
Their fiery darts discharge,
In vain their brazen front oppose
When Christ's trained cohorts charge.

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Hark ! through the azure welkin rings
Th' angelic roundelay,
The news the heavenly herald brings,
The King hath gained the day.*
The foe with broken ranks hath fled
Iu dismal blank dismay ;
The saints with Christ have fought and bled,
And gained the glorious day.
And now they swell th' immortal song,
And shout their Captain's name ;
The King to whom alone belong
Salvation, glory, fame !
* Rev. xvii. 14; xix. 11, 21.

SABBATH.
Blest Sabbath ! Day of solace to the soul,
When from the world's wild elements set free,
By Thy kind Spirit sent us to console,
And raise our fainting spirits, Lord, to thee !
'Tis as when on that night of toil and storm,*
High o'er the raging sea and foaming wave,
Thy peace imparting, calm-commanding Form
Appeared to soothe, to succour and to save.
All howling winds, and waves, and storm are ' still,'
Bright stars shine forth in the blue vault above ;
Wavelet and breeze with mingling murmur fill
The calmed air, — and all is ' peace' and love.
Bright, blissful day ! on which we may rejoice,
While strains of sweetest melodyf within
Steal through our softened hearts, and drown the voice
Of secret, subtil, soul-seducing sin.
Supremely Honourable ! doubly blest !
We hail our Champion-God who came to save ;
We celebrate our Great Creator's rest,
And Great Redeemer's triumph o'er the grave.
Triunely blest ! when Pentecostal Light]
Burst forth in glowing, cloven tongues of flame,
In rushing wind's mysterious voice and might,
The Universal Gospel-message came.
* Matthew xiv. 22-33. f Ephesians v. 19. J Acts ii. 1-4.

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Thrice ' happy, holy, honourable * Day ! '
Let lowly prayer with lofty praise ascend,
Let every heart its ardent homage pay,
And every knee in adoration bend.
Better and dearer far than thousand daysf
Of wild lone wand'ring in the wilderness,
Is one day's walk along the pleasant ways
And quiet paths of peace and righteousness.
And these shall lead us to the realms above,
The bright abodes and mansions of the blest,|
The Everlasting Day of light and love,
Grand Sabbatismos of Eternal Rest !
* Isaiah lviii. 13.
t Psalm lxxxiv. 10. Proverbs iii. 17.
\ Hebrews iv. 9. John xiv. 2. Eevelation xxi. and xxii.

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REVELATION xix. 11—21.
There are " chariots and horses of fire,"
And armies arrayed for the fight,
The Lord marcheth forth in His ire,
In the glory and strength of His might ;
The trumpets in heaven are sounding,
Th' Archangel the signal hath blown,
There are thousands of thousands* surrounding
The King on His fiery throne.
There are wonders and signs in the heaven,
Grand thund'rings and lightnings on high,
Earth's foundations asunder are riven,
And is uttered Creation's last cry ;
Rolled away is the curtain of azure,
And tempests and whirlwinds are tame
To the breath of the Great King's displeasure
Which kindleth the world in its flame.
Encircled in dazzling glory,
With glittering diadems crown'd,
In a vesture with blood red aud gory,
The Great King on clouds is enthron'd ;
A sword in its keenness stupendous
Is flashing and waving around,
Like the blaze of a furnace tremendous,
With more than a hurricane's sound.
On horses that rival in whiteness,
Stern winter's keen blast-driven snow,
In armour whose sheen in its brightness
Eclipseth the noon-day sun's glow ;
* Psalm Ixviii. 17. Daniel vii. 10. Rev. v. 11.

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Their helmets as lightning's flash gleaming
Like thunders their clarions peal,
Aloft heaven's banners are streaming,
As the legions in battle-form wheel.
" Principalities, now, and dominions,"
The powers of darkness and hell,
With their myriads of once haughty miuions,
Most quickly abandon their spell ;
The usurper shall now be unseated,
From the throne of his tyranny hurl'd,
And the armies o'erthrown and defeated
Of the ruler and prince of this world.
In vain do their forces assemble,
In vain do their leaders harangue,
From vanguard to rear one deep tremble
Pervades the disorganized gang ;
Undisciplined, wild, and disorder'd,
They shall quickly be put to the rout,
As the armies of Heaven move forward,
And advance with a terrible shout !
Now commenceth the carnage and slaughter,
Heaven's armies o'erwhelmingly charge,
In torrents from every quarter
Their thunderbolts fatal discharge ;
On the right hand and left wide deploying,
They enclose them from vanguard to rear,
Hell's host they are routing, destroying,
Panic-paralyzed, palsied with fear.
Their leaders deserted, forsaken,
— " The remnant are slain with sword," —
By the victors triumphant are taken,
And laid at the feet of their Lord ;
They are cast in the ocean that burneth
With fire that never may die,
And the Conqueror victorious returneth
'Mid shouts that might loosen the sky.

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Once again Heaven's trumpets are sounding,
Salvation's blest peal now is blown,
And thousands again are surrounding
The King on His glorious throne ;
Saints, seraphs, and angels are singing
The song of the Lamb that was slain,
Heaven's vault in deep harmony ringing,
Re-echoes their anthems again !

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"But still I was enthralled with the love of woman; nor did the Apostle
forbid me to marry." — Confessions of St. Augustine, Book viii., para. 2, p. 134 ; trans
lated by Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D.
" Enthralled with woman's love," — ah, fatal snare,
Inordinate affection's thrall beware ;
Since God's own saints and mighty men of old*
Have been entangled in the silken fold.
Beauty is vain, deceitful favour smiles,!
Or dark or soft-eyed witchery beguiles ;
In Delia's lap the strong man lays his head,
And Manhood, Vigour, Honour, Faith are fled.
But Gospel-grace hath now made all things new,
Man may at Wisdom's fount his strength renew ; *
See every good and perfect gift, of love
Descending from the King's own hand above.
That which ' the carnal mind ' once deified,
Fair woman's love, — is sweetly sanctified,
Becomes, when sprinkled with the holy blood,
Both pure aud meet for dear domestic food.§
Man from the dust th' Almighty Father made,
And whiles in wondering dream and slumber laid,
Took from the throbbing heart's pulsating side
The mystic bone, and formed a living bride.

* " And it came to pass . . . that the sons of God saw the daughters of
men that they were fair."— Genesis vi. " Many strong men have been slain by her."
— Proverbs vii. 26.
f Proverbs xxxi. 29. j Isaiah xl. 28—31. James i. 17.
§ "A creature not too pure nor good
For human nature's daily food."— Wordsworth.

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Lo ! when he wakes, a wondrous form and face
Glowing with perfect beauty, joy and grace,
" Woman ! Thou'rt taken from my side and heart,
My truer, purer, softer, gentler part."
Monastic mockery hath passed away
Before the freedom of ' the perfect Day,'
All priest-imposed restrictions, self-willed vows
Christ's liberty ignores and disallows.
Stone walls do not a sanctuary make
Where th' imprisoned soul its thirst may slake ;
The Truth alone can set the Spirit free : —
That twain are one all Scripture doth agree.

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When mediaeval darkness veiled the mind
And Romish rubbish manacled mankind,
' The solitary monk who shook the world,'f
The flag of God's revealed Truth unfurl'd.
Whom God hath joined let no man put asunder,
Nor priest nor pope, with sacevdotish thunder ;
Incontinent celibacy corrodes
The conscience; and the flesh to madness goads. J
* Genesis ii. 24. Matthew xix. 3—6.
f "The solitary monk who shook the world." — R. Montgomery. It was in the
monastery at Erfurt that Luther found the copy of the Scriptures, the searching
of which was the means — in the power of the Spirit of Truth — that led him out of
Rome's thraldom and darkness into the liberty of a child of God. When he
married the fair Catherine, the priests and monks raised a howl of denunciation
against what they were pleased to call so sacrilegious an union, exclaiming " that
the issue of such a, marriage must be ' Antichrist.' " Erasmus sarcastically
retorted " that if from the union of monk and nun such was the monstrous issue,
there must be many Antichrists already in the world." I am delighted to see by an
account from Italy, that " five nuns (comparatively young girls) have just escaped
from the convent of the Good Shepherd." Why He was expressly " anointed to
proclaim liberty to the captives; the opening of the prison to them that are bound." —
Isaiah lxi. 1—3. Luke iv. 18—20.
J 1 Cor. vii. 9. Isaiah xxxiii. 14.
'Tis better far to marry than to burn,
Which ai: ' '. " '

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Rome, by her false, abortive, foul miscarriage,
Forbidding fair and honourable marriage,*
Brands her own brow with mystic brazen name,
Heralds her own enormous monstrous shame.f
Let Bishop, Presbyter, and Layman wed,|
'Tis undefiled and chaste the marriage-bed ;
God's truth and love — the Lamb's own chosen Bride,
His spotless Church — the sacred knot have tied.
* 1 Timothy iv. 3. Hebrews xiii. 4. t Revelation xvii. 5. J 1 Timothy iii. 2 — 12.

WINE, WOMAN, TRUTH.
1 Esdras iii. iv.
Rich wine, and lovely woman's arms
Have soul-enthralling spells and charms,
As poets boast and sing :
But Truth — the Monarch of the mind —
Can conquer, counteract, and bind
Woman, and wine, 0 King !

GALATIANS iv. 14.
" God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."
I sing the glory of the Cross,
The Name of Him who died,
Count all things but as dung and dross
For Jesus crucified.
Herein I make my boast and songs,
And magnify the Name ;
To this grand theme alone belongs
A time-defying fame.
0 God, forbid that I should boast
Save in that wondrous tree*
On which my God gave up the ghost,
From death to set me free.
O God, forbid that I should sing
Of ought save Jesu's Name ;
My crucified and risen King,
His Kingdom, Crown, and Fame.
The just, the holy Prince of life,
By Jew and Gentile slain,
" Jesus of Nazareth !" our strife
Hath rent and torn in twain.
Now Gentile, Jew, — both bond and free
Are one in gospel grace,
O bless the reconciling tree,f
Whose boughs the world embrace.
O bless our Father and our God !
The Spirit's praises sing,
Bless David's Stem and Root and Rod —
Christ Jesus ! Saviour- King!
* "For blessed is the wood whereby righteousness cometh."— Wisdom xiv. 7.
Is not that the Cross ?
t "If but one leaf she may from thee
Win of the Reconciling Tree."

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"THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST."
1 Peter i. 18—20. l John i. 7. Eph. ii. 11—22.
I sing the priceless blood of Christ
That cleanseth man from sin,
The cost at which my soul was pric'd,
Which God resolved to win.
'Twas not with gold and silver dust, —
'Twas not with this world's dross, — ¦
Into God's side the spear was thrust,
In Christ upon the Cross.
God was in Christ to reconcile —
Christ was the Lamb that bled ; —
That which my soul did once defile,
Is now destroyed and dead.
0 Spotless and unblemished Lamb !
0 priceless precious blood !
In Jesus now I righteous am,
Pure, holy, just, and good.
Blest Lamb ! before the worlds ordained
Iu these our times revealed ;
The mystery is now explained
For ages long concealed.
Both Jew and Gentile now are one,
Are one who once were twain :
The miracle by Christ was done,
The Lamb who once was slain.
Come Gentile, Jew ! come Bond and Free !
One purchased ransomed race ;
Embrace ' the Reconciling Tree,'
The glorious Gospel-Grace !

2 CORINTHIANS in. 17—18.
' Now the Lord is that Spirit ; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
Liberty."
Puke Spirit of God ! true Elixir of life !
With healing and strength and recovery rife,
Inspire my soul with thy life-giving breath,
Dissolver of sin and its poison of death.
Great Spirit of Christ ! by whose power alone
' The powers of darkness ' have all been o'erthrown,
My soul still would wrestle with Thee till Thou bless,
And with Thy sweet presence my spirit possess.
Until the Day dawn, and the Day-star arise,
Unwearied, I'll weary thee still with my cries ;
0 lift up thy standard,* and put Thou to flight
The foe and the flood, and the gloom of the night.
0 Fountain of Liberty, Wisdom and Love,
Flow down in thy mercy and might from above,
Fill, fill me with spirit, free, princely, divine,
Pure water of life, and soul-gladdening wine.
Enrich me with heaven-stored treasure and wealth,
Renew my glad youth with celestial health :
0 bid me soar upwards in triumph at length
On the wings of heart-bracing and soul-nerving strength.f
Still upward and upward, till joined with the throng
Who encircle ' the throne ' with enrapturing song,
Undazzled I gaze on that love-beaming light —
The King in his Majesty, Beauty, and Might !
» Isaipb !r*. 19 + T=si.>h vi ai

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AIZTIXON NATALIS.

Be foolish, absurd as you will, poor Colenso !
But pray do not try, Sir, to make other men so.

A LUTHERAN EPIGRAM.
A worm that lived upon a Rock*
Who overturn 'd and shook the world,
By whom with more than earthquake's shock
A tyrant from his throne was hurl'd.
* " And that Rock was Christ." — 1 Cor. x. 4.

A ROMISH EPIGRAM.
If ever Rome shall rule the roast,
Then roasting will become the rule ;
Brave Freedom may give up the ghost,
Priest Superstition, play the fool.

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[In some published works the title page is embellished with the
Author's likeness. It has seemed more modest and becoming in
me to introduce myself to my readers — the many-headed public —
iu this quiet photographic form at the ' Finis ' of my Uttle work.]

31 Sinner <£ahe& fig (Urate.
" By the gTace of God, I am what I am." — 1 Cor. xv. 10.
A Spiritual Photograph, taken by the kelp of "Tee
Spirit of Truth," by the light of God's Holt Word.

A snwEK saved by grace I
My matins, even-song,
I'll troll it forth from place to place,
My pilgrim path along.
"Dear hlood, redeeming grace! "*
Inspire my gladsome lays,
The light of God in Jesu's face,t
I'll sing, and pen, and praise.
A sinner saved by grace !
No work, no merit mine,
I would myself in dust abase,
Exalt the love divine :
The " everlasting love " J
Of God in Christ to man,
The theme of angel-song above,
Salvation's matchless plan.
Though "chief of sinners" I,
Tet would I not despair,
But meekly to the cross draw nigh,
And read my pardon there.
Exulting in the name,
I would proclaim the story,
Extolling sovereign grace's fame,
JEHOVAH'S Triune Glory!
Bath; February, 1865.
* " Whatever be the thoughts of men of these things ; free
grace and dear blood will ever be the stay of the redeemed on earth,
and the everlasting song ofthe glorified in heaven.— TraiWs Ser
mons on the Throne of Grace.
\ 2 Corinthians iv. 6. + Jeremiah xxxi. 3, Revelation v. 9-14.

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