there be any direction for the public service of the Church, with which a Clergyman cannot conscientiously comply, he is at liberty to withdraw from her ministry; but not to violate the solemn compact he has made with her.” {18} Now I apprehend every conscientious English Clergyman will act upon _this_ principle:—that while Scripture, and Scripture only is his rule of faith, he is, in the interpretation of Scripture, to defer to the Ritual, Liturgy, Articles, and Formularies of the Church of England; he is to promote the glory of God in the highest—peace upon earth, and good-will amongst men; but to do so, not in the way which _he_ may imagine to be the wisest, but according to the Regulations, Canons, Rubrics, and Customs of his Church;—to these he is bound by vows the most solemn to conform. _These_, my Reverend Brethren, I have conscientiously endeavoured to make _my_ rule;—and where are we to look for Unity, if we find it not here? And what terms of reprobation can be sufficiently strong to designate the conduct of those, who, by causing discord among brethren who in principle are united, would thereby make harmony for our enemies? Alas! in every community such persons are found to exist, whose element is strife; who live by faction; who, mistaking party spirit for Christian zeal, in their contest for what _they_ allege to be truth, forget that Christianity is also a religion of Peace and Love. At the present time such persons are busy among ourselves; some openly avow their wish to prevent a union among the Clergy; in the bitterness of their hatred towards the Established Religion, they conceive that the cause of Truth can only be supported by the formation of hostile confederacies within the Church: others covertly, and with the _semblance_ even of _friendship_ towards us—the better to disguise their real malignity—yet exert their utmost unholy endeavours to arm brother against brother, in the hope of waging a worse than civil war, with the deadly weapons of theological hatred. Few in number, they would scarcely be deserving of notice, if, by anonymous misrepresentations—which ought never to be credited until they have been fully examined—and by wilful and gross exaggerations, which from their very absurdity ought to excite the scepticism of charity; they had not partially succeeded in inflaming the passions, and exciting the prejudices, of many good and zealous, but ill-judging and mistaken men, who, instead of regarding _measures_, respect _persons_; who confound opinions with principles; and who, in an exclusive fondness for latitude of interpretation and practice, refuse even the meed of integrity and sincerity to those with whom they differ, even though they are acting in obedient accordance with their plighted vows.