Let me come at once to this point: and to do so I cannot, perhaps, proceed more conveniently than by making a quotation from your letter. At page 54, you say:—“No doubt this court,” (The Judicial Committee of Privy Council,) “nor any other court cannot make canons: but, as has been before said, this is a question, not of new canons and formularies, but of the right construction of old ones. Now, in such a cause, either the court of the Judicial Committee has authority or it has not: . . . If then the decision of the court is to be listened to p. 5at all, it is not easy to discover how one will be able to draw distinctions, and place limitations upon the extent to which it reaches. There seems to be no middle way between accepting and acting upon it, and repudiating it altogether as if it had never existed. I mean, repudiating it in every other respect than in the one point, comparatively unimportant and trivial, of the institution of a certain person to a certain benefice.” You say, it is not easy to discover a middle way. I would hope, though not easy, it may be not impossible. Let me however here, and in the first place, clear myself from any suspicion, if you should be inclined to attach it to me, that I am about to seek a middle course by softening the amount of error contained in a denial of the exclusive doctrine of regeneration in baptism. Let me not be deemed guilty, even in thought, of doubting that such denial is a denial of the “one baptism for the remission of sins,” and is absolute unmitigated heresy; being such as would have shut out any Church permitting its profession, from the communion of Christendom in the primitive ages; such as no Church can maintain, and remain a living branch of the one Body of Christ. I cast to the winds and repudiate with all my soul, that spurious charity of our day, which would seek to “please men” at the expense of God’s truth; which would recommend the Gospel by denying the Faith; which would render it more popular or palatable, by explaining away the Creeds; and all, to be able to include the more within the Church’s pale, under the plea of an extended usefulness. Such liberality (with what is not our own to give,) is, in my estimation, a giving away God’s honour, and so, mere and absolute treason against p. 6Him: therefore is a giving away our place in His Church, and a blotting out it’s name from the book of life.