sober-minded members of the Established Church of England. In defending the Catholic truth, inherited from our immediate forefathers in the faith—the Reformers of our Church, and through them from the Apostles themselves—they have, I lament to say, ventured to adopt some odious corruptions of Romanism, glossing over their most prominent deformities, and investing them with the name of Catholicity; and then endeavoured to maintain their position in the Church, by arguing the approximation of our Articles to the Decrees of the Council of Trent. Nothing can be more lamentable, nothing more reprehensible than this;—as well as the adoption of some external ceremonials of no intrinsic value, but which savour of an unworthy fondness for the outward pomps and ceremonies of the Romish Church. Grieved as I am to be compelled conscientiously to make these acknowledgments, I am yet happy to have this public opportunity of expressing my sentiments on the subject; because, I regret to say, I have, individually, been most unchristianly and uncharitably maligned as a bigoted disciple of the so-called Oxford School; and I trust, therefore, this free and unreserved declaration of my decided dissent from their errors, will exonerate me in future from the unkind and unjust aspersions, which have been so unwarrantably and lavishly heaped upon me. My Reverend Brethren, I must calmly, yet earnestly protest against the injustice and inconsistency of men, either of the Clergy or Laity, who are ready to hurl anathemas against those who, mindful of the solemn vows made at their ordination, as Ministers of the Reformed Religion, are conscientiously resolved to observe, as fully and exactly as they are able, the Rubrical injunctions of the Church. Because they do so, are they, with any shadow of justice or charity, to be roundly taxed with embracing all the erroneous opinions of the Oxford Divines? Are they to be stigmatized as “papistical” and “superstitious” in their ministrations and doctrines? The _reverse_ is the truth. They thereby prove themselves the most safe and zealous advocates of the reformed faith; they present the most undaunted front against the hateful errors of Rome on the one hand, and the no less dangerous and insidious underminings of Geneva on the other. In defence and justification of their practice, I may be permitted to make the following short extract of a Charge delivered by one of the present eminently pious and learned Dignitaries of our Church. He says,—“A strict and punctual conformity with the Liturgy and Articles of our Church is a duty to which we have bound ourselves by a solemn promise; and which, while we continue in the ministry, we must scrupulously fulfil. Conformity to the Liturgy implies, of course, an exact observance of the Rubric. We are no more at liberty to vary the mode of performing any part of public worship, than we are to preach doctrines at variance with the Articles of Religion. If