the remotest, connection between the Bible Society, and a hostile feeling towards the Church and State; and since, on the contrary, it can be plainly proved, that some of the best and heartiest friends of both, are to be found among the Members of that blessed Society, yet as one of its earliest Members, I would have every one of my Colleagues above suspicion; and for this end, I wish not to see either her Clerical or Lay Members, offer the right hand of fellowship to Antichristian Rome, so far as regards this crooked policy, of a secular alliance. Whatever we may do for her, spiritually, by giving her the Bible, and beseeching her to circulate it, and to suffer her people to read it, I feel deeply convinced, upon no superficial view of the subject, that we ought to do nothing to help her towards the acquisition of temporal power, whereby she may be enabled to display her own unchanged intolerance towards this Protestant Nation, and that truly Protestant Society, which is at once the glory and defence of the land. Let us, as one man, repel the insinuation that we are likely to leave the Church of England worse, in any sense, than we found it. As an unworthy, but affectionate Member of that Church, I do not hesitate to assert, because I know I can prove it, that the Bible Society has done much for our Venerable Establishment, and many of the wisest of her sons, have not been backward to acknowledge the obligation. It is only, however, as our weapons continue to be spiritual, that we can be useful either to the Church or the World; and the Secretaries, the Committee, and the general body of the Bible Society, must, collectively and individually, take care how they give occasion to the reproach of inflicting a wound on the Church of England, least of all through the medium, and instrumentality, of the Anti-Biblical Church of Rome. The friends of the Bible Society, and of all those other great Religious and Moral Societies which are the peculiarity of our eventful times, and the protection of our beloved country, should look to it, that while they repose (in common with other Public Institutions) under the maternal wing of an equal toleration-they do not incur the remotest suspicion of a de

sire to lift their heel against the National Establishment, more especially when the probable result of their ill-directed zeal for innovation and improvement, may have an effect which I know they are the last to intend-I mean the bringing of Popery into power, or even into vogue. Loving them as I do, I would have them not only to "abhor that which is evil,” but to "abstain from all appearance of evil." They should not only dread an open defection from the great fundamental principles of Protestantism, but they thould be absolutely above all taint of being suspected either of Religious or Political coquetry with that mother of abominations-the Harlot of the Apocalypse. It is considerations, Sir, of this nature, which have invested YOUR patronage of the claims of Roman Catholics (and as I apprehend, by necessary consequence, of the RELIGION of Roman Catholics), with such a formidable character. I know you too well, not to believe that, if the bare probability of affording aid to the RELIGION of the Church of Rome, could be once brought home to your pure and upright mind, you would tremble at the prospect that lies before you; and I know that it is only because you do not see this danger, that you can persist in your present hazardous course of policy. Whether what I may have advanced, or may yet advance, in reference to this fearful experiment, may have the effect of awakening you to a sense of its danger, remains to be seen; but believing you, as I do, to be the subject of a deep and fatal delusion, and to be drawing with you a multitude who are content to let others think for them, I cannot conscientiously be silent. If, Sir, you be in error, it is impossible that you should err alone. When we behold a comet propelled in its eccentric career, we feel no surprise at its most distant aberrations, as knowing that it is only observing the law of its nature, and that while it rushes forward into the immensity of space, it travels on, unaccompanied by its own or other Satellites, and is independent of every connection but the Divine energy, which conducts it to its farthest limit, and will bring it back, in due time, to the primary fountain of light and heat-far different, however, would be our sensations, if one of those

regular orbs of our system, which we know to be performing its stated revolutions, within a prescribed period, round a common centre, should suddenly " start from its sphere," and, after having so long revolved in steady and unvarying progression, be at once unexpectedly diverted from its path. In this case, all speculation as to the cause of such a change would be absorbed in the inevitable conclusion that some certain evil must be the consequence of it—either to the Planet itself, to the Satellites which surround it, or to the Sytem with which it is connected. That any particular evil (of whatever extent) might indeed be more than compensated, in the end, by some general, though unknown, advantages to the universe at large, might be easily conceived, and humbly believed, by any man who admits the superintendance of an over-ruling Providence —but still, I apprehend his first and most natural impressions could only be of the painful character which I have described, and thus, “ parvis componere magna,” it is not without something of this kind of feeling that I and others have contemplated your uuexpected and extraordinary deviation from the regular and steady track in which we had so long seen you move with admiration and delight. We know, indeed, that the true Church cannot be eventually injured either by her enemies or her FRIENDS, because she is founded upon a rock; but acquiescing, without hesitation, in this undoubted truth, we yet cannot contemplate without emotion, and still less can we invite and forward, the concussions and convulsions which may possibly yet lie between her present peaceful condition, and her final and glorious triumph.

I am, Dear Sir,

Your most obedient and faithful servant,

AMICUS PROTESTANS.

sire to lift their heel against the National Establishment, more especially when the probable result of their ill-directed zeal for innovation and improvement, may have an effect which I know they are the last to intend-I mean the bringing of Popery into power, or even into vogue. Loving them as I do, I would have them not only to "abhor that which is evil," but to "abstain from all appearance of evil." They should not only dread an open defection from the great fundamental principles of Protestantism, but they thould be absolutely above all taint of being suspected either of Religious or Political coquetry with that mother of abominations-the Harlot of the Apocalypse. It is considerations, Sir, of this nature, which have invested YOUR patronage of the claims of Roman Catholics (and as I apprehend, by necessary consequence, of the RELIGION of Roman Catholics), with such a formidable character. I know you too well, not to believe that, if the bare probability of affording aid to the RELIGION of the Church of Rome, could be once brought home to your pure and upright mind, you would tremble at the prospect that lies before you; and I know that it is only because you do not see this danger, that you can persist in your present hazardous course of policy. Whether what I may have advanced, or may yet advance, in reference to this fearful experiment, may have the effect of awakening you to a sense of its danger, remains to be seen; but believing you, as I do, to be the subject of a deep and fatal delusion, and to be drawing with you a multitude who are content to let others think for them, I cannot conscientiously be silent. If, Sir, you be in error, it is impossible that you should err alone. When we behold a comet propelled in its eccentric career, we feel no surprise at its most distant aberrations, as knowing that it is only observing the law of its nature, and that while it rushes forward into the immensity of space, it travels on, unaccompanied by its own or other Satellites, and is independent of every connection but the Divine energy, which conducts it to its farthest limit, and will bring it back, in due time, to the primary fountain of light and heat-far different, however, would be our sensations, if one of those

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AMICUS PROTESTANS

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