the mighty tower of Babel, was arrested, and demolished by the confusion of tongues; and be assured, most Reverend Gentlemen, unless your Scriptural Church, changes this muttering, and confusion of tongues, of her weathercock, and Babel faith, and doctrines, she must also be demolished. For does not the Scripture, plainly tell us, that "a house divided against itself, cannot stand?" and the rains (of fallibility, and of muttering the Liturgy, &c.) fell, and the floods (of clerical protestant dissensions) came, and the winds (of disunion among the bishops, about the necessity of baptismal regeneration) blew; and they beat upon that house, (the Protestant, fallible, Babel, Church,) and it fell; and great was the _golden_ fall thereof, for it was built, _not_ upon the rock of God's _infallible_ word, but upon the mere _fallible inventions_, and _pecuniary conveniences_ of men. (5th. The recommendation of Auricular Confession, to which, I beg to add (the 7th) Absolution.) Every well-instructed Catholic, knows that no man, _as man_, can forgive sins; but at the same time, he knows, that _God_ can forgive sins, and that God, _can_ give that power to _man_; for the Apostles were men, and yet, Jesus Christ (as I shall shortly shew) gave his Apostles, a power to forgive sins. You know, that our Saviour, was both God and man, and that he acted, sometimes as God, and sometimes, as man. Now, if you will read the ninth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, you will find, that our Saviour worked a miracle, to prove that He as man, (but mind assisted by his heavenly Father) had power to forgive sins, even on earth. Now, he gave this power, also to his Apostles, for we read in St. John's Gospel, (chap. xx. 22,) He "breathed upon them," and said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose sins, you shall forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." Now, why was not this power of forgiving sins, to extend also to _future_ ages? Are not God, and Jesus Christ, as good and as kind, _now_, as they were, in the _time_ of the Apostles; and are there not, as many sinners _now_, as there were _then_? If therefore, God, and Jesus Christ, in their infinite mercy, gave this power of forgiving sins, _to the Apostles_, for the good of mankind then, and if there are, as many sinners _now_, as there were _then_, in the name of common sense, why was not this power of God, given to the Apostles for the benefit of mankind _then_, why was it not, to extend also to all _future_ ages, for the benefit of mankind _afterwards_? No such things, cries out the Lay Metropolitan of England. Such doctrine, would lead the people, step by step, to the very verge of the precipice. But of what precipice? Would you believe it? to the recommendation of Auricular Confession, and Absolution, as laid down, in the _Church of England Prayer-book_.