Now all this is discreditable to Mr. Pattison as a Philosopher and as a Divine. _When_ did Protestant England "throw off the authority" of the Church?--What are _Calvin's_ opinions to _her_?--How does 'Independency,' 'Rationalism,' or any other unsound principle, affect _us_? Look at our Prayer-Book. Is it not the same which it was from the beginning? The Sarum Use, reformed and revised, has been our unbroken heritage as Christian men, from the first. Essentially remodelled in the days of Edward VI., the recension of our "Laudian Divines" is, (by GOD'S great mercy!) still ours. What other teaching but that of _the Book of Common Prayer_, is, to this hour, the authoritative teaching of the Church of England? Why insinuate there has been vicissitude of Theory, where notoriously there has been none? Why imply that the storms which periodically sweep over the citadel of our Zion are effectual to remove the old foundations and to substitute new? What but a hollow heartless Scepticism _can_ be the result of such an abominable passage as the foregoing? "Whoever will take the religious literature of the present day as a whole, and endeavour to make out clearly on what basis Revelation is supposed by it to rest, whether on Authority, on the Inward Light, on Reason, on self-evidencing Scripture, or on the combination of the four, or some of them, and in what proportions; would probably find that he had undertaken a perplexing but not altogether profitless inquiry."--(p. 329.) And so the Essay ends. With a short comment on the proposed problem, I also shall conclude.