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Antoine D' Abbadié's Journey to Kaffa, to THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Quarterly Review. JULY, MDCCCLI. ART. I.-A Pastoral Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter on the Present State of the Church. By HENRY LORD BISHOP OF EXETER. London: Murray. 1851. THERE are two Henrys in the House of Peers, who, like Hal and Hotspur in olden time, are fiery combatants; but who, belonging to the learned though not always peaceful professions, have been accustomed to contend on paper stained with gall instead of fields stained with blood. The quondam Whig was at one time a principal contributor to a popular review which made furious onslaughts at the quondam Tory. But we presume that they are good friends now, and that we may call them par nobile fratrum; for assuredly they have left none like them in the ranks of the professions from which they have risen, and find none like them in the noble company they now keep; and their fraternity may be an evidence that Whiggery and Toryism are both worn out, or have died a natural death. But there is a little member belonging to each of these individuals which still retains all its former vitality and gives no signs of exhaustion in either party. And it reminds us of one of H. B.'s sketches with which we were amused some years ago. The parties alluded to were represented as passing a shop in the window of which a notice appeared, in very conspicuous characters" Tongues cured here!"-pointing to which one friend touches his companion on the arm, saying, “My lord, shall we go in?" VOL. XXX,B Alas!--it is written, "The tongue can no man tame: it is an unruly evil full of deadly poison. If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body." In the "Pastoral Letter" before us the Primate of England is made the subject of the largest measure of the writer's vituperation-a man, in every sense of the word, his superior. But other bishops, at least his equals, and the Privy Council-nay, even the Queen herself-are more or less maligned; and this indiscriminate censure only recoils upon the individual who gives it utterance. Yet, so liable are we to self-deception that the same indiscriminate libeller thinks that he is only blameable on the score of excessive courtesy and delicacy! He actually was guilty of forbearance on one occasion: "The consequence has been most disastrous-would that it affected me only! I should then be free from the self-reproach, which I cannot altogether succeed in attempting to silence, that I rashly sacrificed the highest and most sacred interests of Catholic faith to feelings too much akin to courtesy and delicacy to individuals" (10). We have often noticed the fact, in voluble speakers, that the words drop so unconsciously from their lips that they themselves do not weigh the import and are often surprised at the unexpected sense in which they are understood by others. And the same thing happens to those who write with great rapidity, which makes us doubt exceedingly whether, in the multiplicity of pamphlets on so many subjects which have given incessant occupation to the pen of this ready writer, he has ever been accustomed to weigh and ponder well the meaning of the words which he uses. It is the most charitable and natural way of accounting for many of the mistakes which we find in this "Pastoral Letter." In discussing theological questions it becomes especially necessary to give one precise meaning to every term we introduce, and to be particular in the words we employ when discussing the meaning of those terms; for no mistake in theology stands alone, but draws after it numerous errors, and the consequences of these errors often become irremediable and are sometimes fatal. As an instance of what we mean, we have ten pages of the "Letter" before us (15-25), devoted to the doctrine of justification, which the writer would tie to baptism by the article of the creed which says, "I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins." But we have no clear apprehension of what the writer means by justification, and have every reason to conclude that his own notions are very confused on the subject; and that, by holding it in a loose way and connecting it with baptism, he makes this one term to cover remission of sins, regeneration, incorporation into Christ, and sanctification, which are so many successive stages in our Christian progress and ought not to be lumped together as one act-to say nothing of repentance or conversion, which accompany some of these states of progression. Much of the intemperate language which has been applied by the Bishop of Exeter to men whose high official standing and unimpeachable moral character entitle them to respect, we attribute, therefore, to habitual vagueness in the use of words, which is sure to be accompanied with exaggeration; and we will not make ourselves accessory in any degree to a prolongation of the painful sensations it has caused to all right-minded men by extracting these obnoxious expressions even to refute them, merely remarking, by the way, on the blind inconsistency of first censuring the highest legal authorities of the land, because, being laymen, they presumed to pass sentence in a case which belonged, in his opinion, to the clergy; and then passing as strong a censure upon the President of the Council and the Lord Chief Justice, for pronouncing dicta which happen to be contrary to the opinions of the Bishop of Exeter on the royal supremacy, and Bracton, and the "Constitutions of Clarendon." We are not prepared to allow that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were disqualified, as laymen, for pronouncing that sentence to which the Bishop of Exeter objects; but we suppose that there is not a sane man in England who does not think that the Lord Chief Justice is a better authority than the Bishop of Exeter, or any ecclesiastic, on the royal supremacy, and Bracton, and the "Constitutions of Clarendon." The truth seems to be that some persons meddle with so many things that they have a smattering of everything and understand nothing; or, in vulgar phraseology, a man becomes "a Jackof-all-trades, and a master of none.' The fundamental mistake of the Bishop of Exeter, and of all that party who call themselves Catholic, is, that they assume, without enquiry, that the Church of England is Catholic in their sense of the word. That the Church of England is Catholic we also maintain; but we maintain it in a Scriptural, not in a Patristic, sense. We hold that the Church of England acknowledges no standard of doctrine save the Scriptures; while they bring in traditions of men, not only as supplementary, of the Scriptures, but even to overrule and contradict them. The doctrines which they hold to be Catholic they have culled for themselves, in the exercise of their |