of obedience to our own Church, and consequently the security to be found therein, are to be set higher than they usually are, even by her friends, such obedience extending to her spirit and intention (when not opposed to Scripture and the Church Catholic) as much as to points of positive command. For we are bound to obey the Church by Christ appointed. (St. Matt. xviii. 19). And how does this obedience come before us individually, but by our own, while she is neither heretical nor schismatical? We cannot help ourselves, we have no choice. Obedience, therefore TO HER, is obedience To GOD in the highest sense, as to His appointment. And therefore, such obedience contains within itself, somehow, its own protection-has within it safety, and MORE THAN SAFETY." (Tracts for the Times.) "Rome was our mother, through whom we were born to Christ." (Tract 77)

"As long as the Church stands there before him, it it is HER business to see that all is right, NOT HIS.............. to go out of her would be schismatical."

"If a man were born in England, and were to believe and abide by the tenets of Rome, in England, he would become a dissenter."

"If the CHURCH OF ROME be the TRUE CHURCH in Italy, a man in Italy MUST REMAIN IN HER (the Church being one) or else he is GUILTY of SCHISM. If again the Church of England be the true Church in England

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(and you would not deny that), and the Church be one, then a man born in England, if he were to go out of her, would be guilty of schism; and from SCHISM, as from a DEADLY SIN, 'Good Lord deliver us." " (Rev. Mr. Bennet, Vicar of Frome.)

every one,

Remarks.-Well may Mr. Bennet (after the remarks just quoted from his pamphlet,) make this strange confession, "My dear brethren, be true to yourselves, and acknowledge that this is a fatal principle with us all;-with with you, me, with that men LOVE DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT, because their deeds are evil!!!" I think a Bible Christian would hardly like to make an avowal such as this. What! LOVE DARKNESS rather than LIGHT. No wonder such teachers strive and energize to ECLIPSE the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, for He is emphatically "THE LIGHT." Alas! alas! that a bishop of our reformed Church should write of Mr. Bennet thus, "I am fully satisfied that Mr. Bennet has a firm and deep-rooted attachment to our own Church and to all the doctrines of the CHURCH of ENGLAND, REPUDIATING all ROMISH doctrines." Does his lordship really mean to assert that it is consonant with the teaching of our scriptural Church of England, that our religion is to be determined by the country in which we reside? Yet this is Mr. Bennet's notion, so that if I am this week in England, I must be a member of the Church of England, and con

sequently a PROTESTANT, and should I be next week in the Pope's dominions, I must then become a Romanist. If so, it must be either a great sin to reside in the Papal dominions (which I should hardly conceive the Tractarians consider, as they are so religiously fond of visiting Rome!) or it is perfectly immaterial whether I am a Papist, or one protesting against the errors of Papists. But if it be a correct hypothesis, that a man's religion is to be determined by the country in which he resides, a Protestant, when in Turkey, ought to become a Mahomedan; when in India, a Buddite; when in China, a worshipper of the treble deity." (Past, Present, and Future.)

I am quite at a loss though, to know upon this theory what should be the religion embraced by the hundreds and thousands traversing the seas!!

Ably said J. H. Merle D'Aubigné, "If the Church be put above Christianity, the form above the life, what was sown will infallibly be gathered, and there will soon be, for a church, a company of robed skeletons; splendid, perhaps arranged, I allow, in admirable order,-imposing to flesh; but frozen and motionless, like a legion of pale corpses. Should Puseyism gain ground in the English Church, in a few years it will have dried up all the sources of her life. The feverish excitement which has caused the disease will soon give place to languor,-the blood will congeal, the

muscles will stiffen, and that Church be nothing but a dead body—a prey to the eagles, which will be gathered to batten on it. Let us not count the bark more vital than the sap; let us not set the body above the soul -the form above the life-the visible Church above the invisible-the priest above the Holy Ghost."

FIFTH ENQUIRY.

Does Christ in His Word teach, that the supper he instituted was to be commemorated as a continual sacrifice, to be made and offered up by priests? And that the elements of bread and wine become really and absolutely his own body and blood?

No! For what says the Bible?

It is written:

"FOR AS OFTEN AS YE EAT THIS BREAD, AND DRINK THIS CUP, YE DO SHOW THE LORD'S DEATH TILL HE COME.' 1 Cor. xi. 26.)

"THE CUP OF BLESSING WHICH WE BLESS, IS IT NOT THE COMMUNION OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST ? THE BREAD WHICH WE BREAK, IS IT NOT THE COMMUNION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST ?" (1 Cor. x. 16.)

te AND EVERY PRIEST STANDETH DAILY MINISTERING AND OFFERING OFTENTIMES THE SAME SACRIFICES, WHICH CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY SINS: BUT THIS MÂN, AFTER HE HAD OFFERED ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, FOR EVER SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND of God;

FROM HENCEFORTH EXPECTING TILL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE HIS FOOTSTOOL. FOR BY ONE OFFERING HE HATH PERFECTED FOR EVER THEM THAT ARE SANCTIFIED." (Heb. x. 11-14.)

Do the Romanists teach, that the supper instituted (by Christ) was to be commemorated as a continual sacrifice, to be made and offered up by priests, and that the elements of bread and wine become really and absolutely His own body and blood?

Yes! for

They have written:

"By the consecration of the bread and wine there is effected a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ ou Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of His blood, which conversion is fitly and properly termed by the Holy Catholic Church, transubstantiation." (Council Trid.)

"If any one shall deny that in the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there are contained, truly, really, and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the whole Christ, or say that he is in it only as a sign or figure, or by his influence, he is accursed."

"If any one shall deny that in the adorable sacrament of the Eucharist, a separation being made, the