ractical works. "With

[Milliman S. <ter...@me...>]

Y thing or nothing_. When I heard this delivered, I did not believe my
ears. I denied to others
that it was said.... Out came the charge, and the words could not
be mistaken. This astonished me the more, because I published that
Letter to him, (how unwillingly you know,) on the understanding that
_I_ was to deliver his judgment
on No. 90 _instead_ of him. A year
elapses, and a second and heavier judgment came forth. I did not
bargain for this,--nor did he, but the tide was too strong for him. "I
fear that I must confess, that, in proportion as I think the English
Church is showing herself intrinsically
and radically alien from Catholic principles, so do I feel the
difficulties
of defending her
claims to be a branch of the Catholic Church. It seems a dream to call
a communion Catholic, when one can neither appeal to any clear
statement of Catholic
doctrine in its formularies, nor interpret ambiguous
formularies by the received and
living Catholic sense, whether past or present. Men of Catholic

views are too truly but a party in our Church. I cannot deny
that many other independent circumstances, which it is not worth while
entering into, have led me to the same conclusion.
"I do not say all this to every body, as you may suppose; but I do not
like to make a secret of it to you."

2. "Oct. 25, 1843. You have engaged in a dangerous correspondence; I am
deeply sorry for the pain I shall give you. "I must tell you then
frankly, (but I combat arguments which to me, alas, are shadows,)
that it is not from disappointment,

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