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the Romish Church, the latter as defined by the Council of Trent. But we shall not stop there. We shall, secondly, bring under review "the practical system," as furnishing an equally strong objection as the accurately - defined Articles against peace and union with Rome. But we shall not stop there. The grand reason for the "Eirenicon," or peace with Rome, is derived from Catholicity; we shall, therefore, endeavour to show that Rome is the great enemy and chief hindrance to Catholicity, and that therefore we can have no peace with her. But we shall not stop there. Dr. Pusey's book not only concerns the Church of England, but this Protestant England of oursour own dear, dear, England; we shall therefore gather some reasons from the condition and Christianity of England, from England's Bible, from the Bible of the world, why there should be no peace with Rome. And there we shall stop; knowing assuredly that whilst the "Eirenicon" and Rome, like the flower of the grass, shall wither and fade away, the word of the Lord liveth and abideth

for ever. Our argument, then, will be based upon the four following things: (1) The Articles of the Churches of England and Rome; (2) The Practical System of Rome; (3) The Catholic Faith; and (4) The Protestantism of England, founded upon England's Bible.

I. THE ARTICLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, AND THOSE OF THE CHURCH OF ROME.

That there may be no question as to our authorities, we will confine ourselves strictly, on behalf of the Church of England, to the Thirty-nine Articles, and against the Romish Church, to the Statements, Decrees, and Canons of the Council of Trent. And to put away the shadow of objection, we will use in our quotations, not a Protestant translation of the Tredentine Articles, but an undisputed Roman Catholic one. We fear we must draw largely upon your pa tience in making these quotations. The quotations from the English Articles will be very brief; but, for the sake of

fairness, they must be more extended from the Articles of the Romish Church. Not to take in more than is essential to the subject, we will confine ourselves to seven topics :

1. The Sufficiency of Holy Scripture. 2. The Justification of Man. 3. Works of Supererogation. 4. Purgatory, Indulgences, &c. 5. Of the Sacraments.

6. Transubstantiation.

7. The Sacrifice of Christ, and the Masses of Rome.

And now, may God bestow upon us "the wisdom that is from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy."

Here let it be distinctly understood that we write in love and charity with all mankind, and that to the Roman Catholics, as Christians, we have, if we know our own heart, the most complete Christian charity; and that what we may afterwards say towards the close, is intended for the Papacy as a system, a system of doctrine and discipline. It will be quite sufficient for our argument if we merely quote, first the Articles of the Church of England; and then the Articles of the Romish Church as solemnly pronounced to be de fide by the Council of Trent.

1. OF THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES FOR SALVATION.

ENGLISH CHURCH: Art. VI.-"Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation." Art. XX.-"It is not lawful for the Church to ordain any. thing that is contrary to God's Word written." Art. XXI." Wherefore things ordained by them (General Councils) as necessary to salvation, have neither strength nor authority, unless it be declared that they be taken out of Holy Scripture."

ROMISH CHURCH: Session the 4th, Council of Trent, 8th April, 1546.-"The sacred and holy, oecumenical, and general Synod of Trent-lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost, the same three legates of the Apostolic See presiding therein-keeping this always in view, that, errors being removed, the purity itself of the Gospel be preserved in the Church; which (Gospel) before promised through the prophets in the Holy Scriptures, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, first promulgated with His own mouth, and then commanded to be preached by His Apostles to every creature, as the fountain of all, both saving truth and moral discipline; and seeing clearly that this truth and discipline are contained in the written books, and the unwritten traditions which, received by the Apostles from the mouth of Christ himself, or from the Apostles themselves, the Holy Ghost dictating, have come down even unto us, transmitted as it were from hand to hand; the Synod following the examples of the orthodox fathers, receives and venerates with an equal affection of piety and reverence, all the books both of the Old and of the New Testament-seeing that one God is the Author of both-as also the said traditions, as well those appertaining to faith as to morals, as having been dictated, either by Christ's own word of mouth or by the Holy Ghost, and preserved in the Catholic Church by a continuous succession." what Holy Scripture is the English Church rejects the Apocrypha; the Romish Church pronounces an anathema upon those who reject it.

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2. OF THE JUSTIFICATION OF MAN. ENGLISH CHURCH: Art. XI.-"We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings: wherefore, that we are justified by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the Homily on Justification."

ROMISH CHURCH: Session the 6th,

Council of Trent, 13th January, 1547, Canon XI.-"If anyone saith that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them; or even that the grace whereby we are justified is only the favour of God, let him be anathema." Canon XII. "If anyone saith that justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ's sake, or that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified, let him be anathema." Canon XXIV. "If anyone saith that the justice received is not preserved and also increased before God through good works, but that the said works are merely the fruits and signs of justification obtained, but not a cause of the increase thereof, let him be anathema." Canon XXX. "If anyone saith, that, after the grace of justification has been received, to every penitent sinner the guilt is remitted, and the debt of eternal punishment is blotted out in such wise that there remains not any debt of temporal punishment to be discharged either in this world or in the next in purgatory, before the entrance to the kingdom of heaven can be opened (to him), let him be anathema." Canon XXXIII. "If any one saith, that, by the Catholic doctrine touching justification, by this holy synod set forth in this present decree, the glory of God, or the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, are in any way derogated from, and not rather that the truth of our faith, and the glory, in fine, of God and of Jesus Christ, are rendered (more) illustrious, let him be anathema."

And yet Dr. Pusey, in the "Eirenicon," page 19, says of the English and Roman Churches: "I believe that we have the same doctrine of grace and of justification. There is not one statement in the elaborate chapters on justification in the Council of Trent which any of us could fail of receiving; nor is there

can believe this.

one of their anathemas on the subject tively marvellous to us, how any man which in the least rejects any statement of the Church of England!" It is posi

THE ORPHAN.

(To be continued.)

A TALE FOUNDED ON A WELL-KNOWN FACT.
CHAPTER I.

"Have you had a pleasant walk, my dear?" said Mrs. Hanbury to her husband, as he threw himself into his armchair; and, placing his hands on his knees, fixed his eyes pensively on the fire.

"No, I have not," he replied; "for sad thoughts were my companions. That poor unfortunate orphan! I can't drive her from my mind."

"Nor I neither," answered Mrs. Hanbury. "If she haunted you abroad, she has haunted me at home. Poor Jane-it is hard, very hard, to be an indigent, friendless orphan!"

"Friendless!-who says she is friendless? We are not dead, Mrs. Hanbury!" "No, my dear; and she shall find

that we are not."

"That's right, that's right; but what a thoughtless extravagant fellow was Vernon! He a father, indeed!-he pretend to be fond of his daughter, and yet spend his whole income on himself, instead of saving all he could for his child! However, poor wretch! if he had his senses in his last moments, he was sufficiently punished."

"My dear Mr. Hanbury," said Mrs. Hanbury, eagerly, "his death was so sudden, that I believe, I hope, he could not think or feel at all."

"So much the better, so much the better:-but what can this poor dear girl do?"

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Nay, I don't know, Mr. Hanbury; she must go out as a companion, or get into a school as an assistant, I suppose;

or "

"Go out as a companion !-get into a school! What, madam, is this all you can do for the only child of your friend Mrs. Vernon ?"

"All I can do for her! No, to be sure; but you did not ask me what I

could do for her. Oh! if I might, I could do a great deal."

As she said this she drew her chair close to her husband's, and, leaning on the arm of it, looked up in his face with great meaning.

"Well, now, what would you do, if you might?”

"If we adopt this poor orphan, we should have the comfort of knowing that we had done a kind action; and if I should ever meet my dear Mrs. Vernon in another world," added she, melting into no unpleasing tears as she spoke, "think with what delight I should say to her, 'My dear, dear friend, I have been a mother to your orphan daughter!'"

Mr. Hanbury did not at first answer her; but he grasped her hand with great affection, and then, in a sort of choked voice, said :

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'My dear good woman, we will order the carriage at seven o'clock tomorrow morning, and pay Miss Vernon a visit."

The next morning, at the appointed time, they set off; but, as soon as they were on the road, Mr. Hanbury said :—

"My dear, there is, I doubt, one objection to the plan of Miss Vernon's living with us."

"Aye; I doubt so," replied Mrs. Hanbury; "for I see one myself." "Name it."

"Your ward's residing with us also." "Yes, that is the one I alluded to; yet I do not see why that should be any objection, either; it does not follow that he must fall in love with her, or she with him."

"But suppose he did fall in love with her what then?"

"Why, you know, she has no fortune; is only a country clergyman's

daughter; and, as our estates are all entailed on the male heirs, we can leave her nothing but a bare maintenance." "Well, but has he not fortune enough for them both?" "True."

vent to the tears which her friends had been urgent with her to repress. For now she no longer heard "Do not cry so, my dear; you will make yourself quite ill. It is wicked to repine at the dispensations of Providence" - and

"And were not her birth and educa- therefore she felt relieved beyond tion those of a gentlewoman?"

"Very true."

"Then Douglas may thank us for throwing such a treasure in his way, as Jane Vernon must prove to the man whom she marries."

Having thus overcome the only objection to their benevolent scheme, the warm-hearted couple pursued their journey, full of satisfaction from the anticipation of the delight which they flattered themselves they were going to bestow.

Nothing could be better timed than the visit of the Hanbury's to Miss Vernon. The suddenness of her father's death had almost deprived her of reason; and on the day of the projected visit she had, for the first time, summoned courage to put on her mourning, for the first time ventured to look over her father's papers and accounts, and convince herself that she was left a complete beggar.

She was for the first time, also, left alone since her father's death: two of her neighbours, well-meaning persons, but little skilled to minister to a mind diseased, had been prevailed upon by her to return home to their families; though it was not without great difficulty that they could be persuaded to believe that solitude would not be unpleasant to her.

Had Jane declared to them that it would be a luxury to be left to commune with her own thoughts, and indulge her grief to the utmost, they would have attributed her words to frenzy, and have insisted on staying with her. But she did not say to them what she was sure they could not understand; and with many friendly regrets, the two ladies left her.

The first use of their absence which Jane made, was to give an unbridled

measure.

But from regret for the father, who, with all his extravagance, had treated her with unbounded kindness, she passed to fears for her own future happiness.

Jane Vernon was what is understood by the truly feminine character-embarrassed by notice, and terrified at attracting attention. She had always taken as much pains to conceal her beauty and her talents as most women take to display theirs. Her father only was allowed to hear her sing or play; her father only knew that her pencilsketches from nature did honour to her taste and execution; but even he was unconscious that she had no inconsiderable power of writing verses.

But now, of these talents, which she had cautiously concealed from every one, she found herself obliged to make a public boast. She saw herself forced to say "I can draw, I can paint, I can sing, I can talk French, I can embroider," and insist on all her pretensions with, in her eyes, unbecoming effrontery. And while she was conjuring up this painful prospect to frighten her extreme delicacy, and wound her even morbid sensibility, she had just resolved to hide herself in an obscure lodging, and take in plain-work for her livelihood, when Mr. and Mrs. Hanbury's carriage stopped at the door, and substituted a present for a future apprehension.

But, as soon as she saw the amiable old couple alight, her fears vanished; she knew that they must be come on an errand of kindness; and when she recollected that Mrs. Hanbury was the dearest friend of that mother whom she lost just as she was old enough to feel her value, her usual diffidence yielded to strong emotion; and as soon as the old lady entered the room, Jane precipi

tated herself into her arms, as if into the embraces of a parent.

"That's right, that's right, my dear," said the kind old man, wiping his eyes; "cry on, cry on; make no strangers of us, for we are come to cry with you. Grief must have its season, and then comes resignation; and then, in due time, come smiles again."

Jane wished to say that to her smiles would never return; but she could not speak, and therefore escaped making that rash declaration, so familiar to the lips of all who are experiencing a first sorrow.

At length Jane's feelings became more calm, and she was able to reply to the delicate but anxious inquiries made by the Hanburys into her circumstances and future intentions. As soon as she had given them, on this subject, all the information which they required, and acquainted them with her fixed resolve to submit to any drudgery rather than try for a situation which would force her to boast of her own accomplishments, Mr. Hanbury made a sign to his wife to open the business on which they came; but Mrs. Hanbury's heart was full with a mixed feeling of pity for the timid girl left to struggle with the world, and of self-satisfaction for the part which she was going to act; therefore she was unable to speak, and returned to her husband's a sign expressive of her wish that he should speak first, and he began with:

"Well, my dear, and so you mean to shut yourself up, and work from morning to night at your needle in order to earn bread for the day! A pretty resolution truly ! But we are come to tell you, you shall do no such thing; for I am sure you love to oblige, and Mrs. Hanbury and I mean to request you to do us a favour."

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Here he hemmed several times, as if choked with a pleasing emotion and Mrs. Hanbury, giving him through her tears a smile of approbation, took up the business where he left it off.

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to ask a favour of you; we are come to request you to take pity on our childless age, and be to us a daughter and a companion."

Jane gasped for breath at hearing these kind and welcome words; and while she was vainly seeking language to express her feeling, Mr. Hanbury said :—

"I assure you, my dear, if you consent to oblige us, you will find enough to do. We shall not let you be idle; my wife there grows too old to look after the family herself, and you must be housekeeper; and when I am ill with the gout, you must take the trouble of nursing me, I can tell you that."

Jane had a heart alive to all the finest touches of generosity and delicacy of which the human mind is capable; and feeling, to the bottom of her soul, the generous intention with which her venerable friends endeavoured to lessen, in her eyes, the degree of obligation which they were going to confer, her weak frame sunk beneath the tide of overwhelming emotions which oppressed her, and heaving a deep sigh, she leaned on Mrs. Hanbury's shoulder, and sobbed aloud.

As soon as she recovered her composure, and could tell her kind friends that she accepted their offer, and would cheerfully devote her life to the study of their slightest wishes, they proposed that she should go home with them immediately; and Jane, having made the necessary arrangements, and informed her friendly neighbours of the happy change in her prospects, accompanied them, with a grateful and lightened heart, to the place of their residence.

As they went along, the Hanburys informed her of their way of life, and told her they feared that she would find it very dull; but Jane assured them that she believed no situation could be dull in which the affections were called forth. "And shall not I," she said, "be with my benefactors?"

Still they persisted in expressing their fears on this subject, as the roads round their house were in winter scarcely passable.

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