We should bear in mind, my Reverend Brethren, that unity of _spirit_ is not the _only_ thing to be thought of and promoted; we are to have regard also to the unity of the _body_. Now, if the Church be a body, a visible incorporated society, she must, like other incorporations, be under the government of certain rulers, and under the guidance of certain regulations. And so, in fact, we find the Church to be: she has all the marks of a visible incorporated society.—She has a regular form of admission: the Sacrament of Baptism.—She has a constant badge of membership: the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper.—She has peculiar duties: repentance, faith, and obedience.—She has peculiar privileges: forgiveness of sins, present grace, and future glory.—And she was placed, by our Lord, her founder, under officers of His own appointment, the Apostles and their Episcopal Successors, by whom the affairs of the Community are to be regulated from time to time. Now, if the Church be thus a body, we must preserve her unity by deference to her laws, her articles, and canons, in their plain, literal, and grammatical acceptation, and by obedience to her constituted authorities. The Church, under God, is our nursing mother; and the only image of the Church Catholic which we know of, is that which _she_ embodies to us. She is the representative of Christ; she consigns us with provident care to the protection of our Lord, even before we are conscious of the blessing; she teaches us to lisp in holy words; she dedicates our youth to God; and, in her pure and comprehensive discipline, trains us up into our spiritual manhood. Even then she inspires our devotion, while she regulates our faith, and accompanies us from the cradle to the grave in that grand circle of offices to which I have just alluded, and which embraces every vicissitude and condition of life, instructing us how to improve them, how to sanctify even earthly occupations, by impregnating them with a divine spirit, and conferring a consecration from Heaven upon them all. These, my Reverend Brethren, are powerful claims upon the heart and judgment of all reasonable and sound-thinking men, to do their utmost to promote the unity of the Church; and should make every Churchman, and especially every Minister of the Church, pause long and ponder well ere they disparage her claim to Catholicity, or to humour the subtle scruples of Separatists, they presume to dishonour her formularies, and risk, we know not what ultimate results, or what calamitous consequences to the Church and to the Nation, by overthrowing the ancient landmarks of opinion, and sapping the traditional faith and the undoubted loyalty of men to her communion.