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Ublished my own condemnation in a letter to the Bishop of Oxford. I
impute nothing whatever to him, he was ever most kind to me. Also, they
said they could not answer for what individual Bishops might perhaps say
about the Tract in their own charges. I agreed to their conditions. My
one point was to save the Tract. Not a scrap of writing was given me, as
a pledge of the performance on their side of the engagement. Parts of
letters from them were read to me, without being put into my hands. It
was an "understanding." A clever man had warned me against
"understandings" some six years before: I have hated them ever since. In
the last words of my letter to the Bishop of Oxford I thus resigned my
place in the Movement:-- "I have nothing to be sorry for," I say to him,
"except having made your Lordship anxious, and others whom I am bound to
revere. I have nothing to be sorry for, but everything to rejoice in and
be thankful for. I have never taken pleasure in seeming to be able to
move a party, and whatever influence I have had, has been found, not
sought after. I have acted because others did not act, and have
sacrificed a quiet which I prized. May God be with me in time to come,
as He has been hitherto! and He will be, if I can but keep my hand clean
and my heart pure. I think I can bear, or at least will try to bear, any
personal humiliation, so that I am preserved from betraying sacred
interests, which the Lord of grace and power has given into my charge."
Footnote [2] For instance, let candid men consider the form of
Absolution contained in that Prayer Book, of which all clergymen,
Evangelical and Liberal as well as high Church, and (I think) all
persons in University office declare that "it containeth _nothing
contrary to the Word of God_." I challenge, in the sight of all England,
Evangelical clergymen generally, to put on paper an interpretation of
this form of words, consistent with their sentiments, which shall be le