The bishop equivocatesi Various I beg your readers closely to obhonest-hearted Englishmen write, ex- serve it. The charge was that the pressing their surprise at the glaring young man was proffered a dispensadishonesty and deceptive nature of tion. The bishop's defence is, that Dr. Wareing's reply. Had they he did not beforehand proffer or afterknown Jesuitism as well as their wards grant any dispensation. No ancestors knew it, they would not charge was made that he had granted have felt surprised. But Dr. Ware a dispensation. It was that he had ing, it may be said, has now given an proffered one. He denies that he unequivocal denial. Is it so? Even proffered beforehand; he does not then that were not enough. The end deny that he afterwards proffered a may justify the means. Better, ac- dispensation. cording to Romish casuistry, assert Special pleaders even are not better untruths, for which he may be dis- versed in the subtleties of language pensed, than to have his Church open and technical expressions than Roman to a true but injurious charge. Dr. Catholic bishops. They often outWareing, however, is not so much witted our lawyers of ancient days, concerned as his Church. His Church and seem not yet to have forgotten is on its trial. She is charged with how to use language rather to conceal countenancing falsehood and decep than express their meaning. tion. Whether she does so or not To have made his đenial clear and she cannot, by any assertion of her conclusive he should have said that own, disprove any more than a crimi- he neither beforehand gave or profnal at the bar of justice convicted of fered, nor afterwards gave or proffraud, can purge himself by asserting fered, any dispensation. Till he can his honesty. Other and unsuspicious do this the charge is not removed. testimony must be adduced. We Thus it has taken a Roman Catholic must decide by witnesses. Of these Bishop two letters to deny a statewe have a host against his Church, ment which an honest-hearted charity too numerous even to mention in schoolboy might have done in one; your valuable columns. From the and the doctor seems farther from his. writings of one of them alone, a man point than ever. of sainted reputation, and canonised Yours, &c., by the late Pope Gregory XVI. in WARY, BUT NOT + WAREING: 1839, St. Alphonso Ligouri, suffi- Temple, Nov. 10, 1846. cient proof may be derived upon this subject. MISCELLANEOUS. But to return to Dr. Wareing. It ROMISH UNCTION.—As for Unction is clear he denies,—1. That he countenanced an individual professing one used in the Church of Rome; since religion, and being at the same time it is used when the man is above half of another, for the sake of deception. dead, when he can exercise no act of understanding, it must needs be 2. He says, “I now beg most distinctly to deny, that I, in any way, nothing: for no rational man can beforehand proffered, or afterwards think that any ceremony can make a spiritual change, without a spiritual granted, any dispensation or permis act of him that is to be changed-sion to practise a lie, or tell a lie, for nor work by way of nature or by any purpose whatever, and that I should be acting against the principles charm, but morally, and after the of my religion, and unworthy to hold manner of reasonable creatures; and therefore I do not think that ministry up my head in society, if I attempted to practise any such disgraceful or at all fit to be reckoned among the advantages of sick persons.—Bishop preposterous conduct." His Church justified the evasion in Jeremy Taylor's Holy Dying. Epis. Dedi. p. 9. the first instance. It will equally justify it in another. But, Sir, Dr. Wareing's quasi con CABINET. tradiction may be, in reality, no con- I would not advise any one to place tradiction at all. his child where the Holy Scriptures. Vol. VIII.- December, 1846. 00 New Series, No. 12. pp. 74. are not regarded as the rule of life. the Rey, John CUMMING, D.D., Every institution where God's word Minister of the Scottish National is not diligently studied must become Church, Crown Court, Covent Garcorrupt.-LUTHER. den. London: Aylott and Jones; Shaw, Southampton-row. 12mo. A HYMN OF PRAISE TO BE USED UPON THE FIFTH DAY OF NO This is a very valuable lecture. To VEMBER be appreciated, it should be read. It is full of information on an important For the Happy Deliverance of King subject, conveyed in a popular and James I. and the Three Estates of England, from the most traitorous and pleasing style. bloody-intended Massacre by Gunpow The Rev. Dr. observes, with equal der: and also for the happy arrival of judgment and eloquence; – “One his Majesty King William on this Day, striking lesson is to be gathered from for the Deliverance of our Church and all that preceded the Reformation. Nation. By William LAING, Under- It is the utter impotenee of intellecgraduate of Christ's College, Cambridge. tual, imperial, or military effort, to achieve the triumphs destined to fol. 4% If it had not been the Lord, who was on low on the footsteps of the Monk of our side, now may Israel say; if it had Erfürth. The sword of the Cæsars not been the Lord, who was on our side, when men rose up against us: then they was shivered into splinters as soon as had swallowed us up quick, when their it struck the tiara. Genius, when it wrath was kindled against us.”—Ps.cxxiv. arrayed itself against the Popedom, 143. and shot forth its burning shafts, no MUSIC—Mount of Olives. sooner touched the hierarch, than it was transformed, eontrary to its deLORD, we give thee adoration, sign, from an aggressor into an ally. High upon thy throne above, It was neither in the eamp, nor in the For our reseued Church and Nation, Cabinet, nor in the academy, that the Through thy grace, and pow'r, and Reformation was to be accomplished. love. It was in the closet, and in the pulpit, As on this day, men unholy it was by weapons not carnal, but Sought to ruin Church and State: mighty,' this holy revolution was to But thou, of thy merey solely, be wrought out. And the instruments Didst their hellish plot frustrate. set apart in the purposes of God for Likewise, on this day of kindness, the high function of wielding these Thou didst to our succour come; with suceess, were not princes, nor And didst save us from the blindness, captains, nor prelates, nor always And the tyranny of Rome. learned men.”—Page 29. This great day, then, Lord, for ever Consecrate we to thy name, INTELLIGENCE. Who didst us from death deliver, THE Rev. Mr. Newman, of Oxford, To thine everlasting fame. had an audience with the Pope on Gracious God, we pray thee, hear us; the 20th October, and on the follow And, as thou hast alway been, ing day heard low mass, which his So, on this glad day, be near us- Holiness celebrated in one of the Bless our Nation, Church, and chapels of St. Peter's. Queen, On the 23d, Mr. Buckingham, of God, the Father, we adore thee: the London British and Foreign In God, the Son, we honour give: stitute, had the honour of an audience God, the Spirit, we implore thee, with the Pope. Come, and in thy temples live! NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. NOTICES OF BOOKS. We are compelled to omit much Luther and the Reformation : A Lec- interesting Foreign and Domestic
INDEX. ture delivered before the Young Intelligence, and Notices of Books. Men's Christian Association. By These shall appear in our next. PAGE . PAGE 413 Confessions and Protests of a True 41 551 289 Dangers that Threaten 126, 173, 206, 370 39 411 Division, the Work of Jesuitism 331 Thoughts on the, by the Rev. lic Laity of Ireland, Appeal to 21 465 Dublin Protestant Association 277, 373 1 25 494 in Ireland, and the conti- 362 nued support of Maynooth Col- -Great Circulation of, at Excommunication by bell, book, 30 and candle, in the North of 215 55 546 Protestant movement in 497 37 465 458 Protestant Children of England, 504 493 327 Happy. Deliverance from Papal 91 187 295 82 at Rome in the pre- 135 335, 384, 416, 464, 512, 554 Ireland, Address to Protestants and 306 against England.—Repeal 285 38 Present Wants of the 421 and cause of Assassination in that 444 morals in 509 the state of 49 304 to the Roman Catholics of . 364 297 542 hostile indications 161 493 Policy of the Government 133 89 land. . . PAGE PAGE 9 faith . . . . Islington Protestant Institute, Ad- Pope, the, not the Chief Shepherd 501 490 Popery, a few remarks on. 437 410 description of 457 43 the English nation to the Romish 36 181 Power, spiritual and temporal 145 537 Practical suggestions for the present crisis 26 328 Prince Metternich and the Roman 232 Catholic Relief Act of 1829 325 70 506 478 229 Alliance 169 32 Weekly Newspaper 284 , Why am I a?" 285 27 Ramsgate Protestant Association 447 302 229 313 440 137 180 83 81 “High Treason." -Deve- 417 495 Priesthood, triple Com- 385 Unction. 97 Sheffield, Address to the Protestant 404 450 330 164 Lord, Esq., on Duties of Electors 459 80 the Rev. Hugh M'Neile 85 228 Spiritual and Temporal Power 145 549 Story, J. H., Esq., Speech of 514 68 Stowell, Rev. Hugh, Speech of . 521 145 9 ture? 77, 116, 155, 201, 318, 343, 391, 431, 475 64 405 543 121 382, 415, 462, 511, 554 Van Diemen's Land, Popery in 84 552 407 Youghall Protestant Association 310 Young Christian with his Romanist 331 562 389 133 Copies of the Protestant Magazine, price 5d., may be had at any time by Macintosh, Printer, Great New Street, London. |