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LETTER,

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'True we find it, by experience of all ages in the Church of God, that the teacher's error is the people's trial, harder and heavier by so much to bear, as he is in worth and regard greater that mispersuadeth them.' HOOKER, Eccl. Pol. b. v. §. 61.

MY LORD,

IN a Letter addressed to your Lordship by the Rev. Dr. Pusey, of which a third edition has some time since been given to the public, it has been asserted in reference to the Charge delivered by your Lordship in the summer of the year 1838, that you have pronounced judgment upon the Authors of the Tracts for the Times, and that while acquitting those of them who are parochial ministers of any breach of discipline,' you have also acquitted' them of having put forth any such doctrine or in such spirit as would call for the admonitions of those who have authority in the Lord's Vineyard.'

Now the effect of these statements has been to produce an impression upon the public mind', (not

This strange notion has actually found its way into foreign countries. Une lettre de l'Evêque Anglican d'Oxford auquel

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that this was the object of Dr. Pusey's Letter,) that the views in question have the high sanction of your Lordship, which, together with other erroneous impressions, it will be the first object of the following pages to remove. It will also be attempted to show, that the Authors of the Tracts for the Times have been guilty of one or more serious violations of Discipline, and have advanced Novel and Confused views of Doctrine.

1. Your Lordship will bear with me, if, for the sake of those who are in danger of being led astray by the views in question, I endeavour to show, that, whether right or wrong, they have not your Lordship's sanction; and further, that the authors, or at least some of the authors, of them are not consistent in their professions of respect for Episcopal Authority.

Your Lordship's Charge contains the following passage.

"I have spoken of increased exertions among us, and of an increasing sense of our Christian responsibilities; and therefore you will probably expect that I should say something of that peculiar developement of religious feeling in one part of the Diocese, of which so much has been said, and

on reprochoit les doctrines et les pratiques qu'il laissoit introduire, justifie les unes et les autres.' L'Ami de la Religion, Aout 13, 1839.

Aristotle somewhere observes, that the multitude never can be taught to make distinctions.