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WHAT ARE THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS
FOR
ARRESTING THE PROGRESS OF POPERY,
AND OF
CERTAIN OXFORD VIEWS?
JIN APPEAL
HUMBLY OFFERED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE
LORDS SPIRITUAL,
AND TO THE
HEADS AND GOVERNORS OF COLLEGES AND HALLS.

BY
A DISCIPLE OF CRANMER.

SECOND EDITION. ' *2> - i-C
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OXFORD,
HENRY SLATTER, HIGH STREET;
SEELEY AND BURNSIDB, AND G. BELL, FLEET STREET, LONDON ;
T. STEVENSON, CAMBRIDGE.

I'lUNTXD J3Y J. MUNDAY, 1UN. QUEE.N-STREET, OXFORD.

PREFATORY REMARKS.
" Ilia ( Papistria) subit, mediseque minans illabitur urbi'

It is not my intention in this appeal to pre
sent to the reader any detailed proofs of the
aims and tendencies of the writers and party
animadverted upon with some degree of aspe
rity. Without, therefore, entering into specific
demonstration against the party and their writ
ings, it will suffice to refer my readers to the
following evidences, which, if examined with
impartiality, will at once convince them, that the
authors of certain writings, and their partizans,
hold and spread notions, which are opposed to
our present ecclesiastical establishment, and
inconsistent with the doctrines of the Reforma
tion. The works in question are the following
shorter ones : —
Puseyism Unmasked, 2s. — Peep into No. 90,
Is. — Mr. Golightly's New and Strange Doc
trines of Mr. Newman, Is. — Answer to Dr.
Hook's Call to Union, reprinted from Fraser's
Magazine, price 3d., London, James Fraser. —
Dr. Miller's two Letters to Dr.Pusey. — Mr. Go
lightly's Letter to the Bishop of Oxford. — Dr.
Baltimore's Miraculous Escape of Fernandez

Is. 6d., Oxford. — Professor Powell's Sermon,
entitled, The Protestant's Warning and Safe
guard, 9d. Oxford. — The Controversy between
Tract No. 90, and the Oxford Tutors, How
and Parsons, Fleet-street, Is. — In the Appendix
to the Rev. Mr. Bricknell's two valuable Ser
mons, " Preaching its Warrant", &c. published
by Baisler, 124, Oxford-street, 1841, is an
ample list of twenty-one Authors against the
Tractarians, including the names of Sumner,
Bp. of Chester, Dr. Hampden, Dr. Faussett,
Professor Scholefield, Mr. Stanley Faber,
Dr. Hawkins, and Archbishop Whately. —
Dr. Thorpe's Review of a Letter from the
Rev. W. Sewell, &c. Hatchard, 1841, is par
ticularly worth attention, and Mr. Golightly's
alarming Letter to the Standard. But for an
ample and elaborate examination of the Trac-
tarian Theology, we cannot too earnestly re
commend Bp. M'llvaine's " Oxford Theology
compared", &c. 8vo. 1841. This work is indeed
a searching probe, by which the wounds inflicted
on the Reformed doctrine by the Tractarians
are touched and handled to the very depth and
quick, by the pious and acute Bishop of Ohio.
Residents in Oxford and in some other places
are, I believe, too apt to view the adherents of this
party through the misleading medium of their
correct sobriety, and general civility of deport
ment, without considering that men may recon
cile the utmost sobriety and the greatest civility

with the most pernicious opinions, as set forth
in their writings, and let loose in their private
conversation. The doctrines of these gentle
men, as was probable, have obtained a sort of
vogue and currency not unexpected ; and why ?
They favour the corruption of human nature
by going far to substitute barren forms for
practical piety. With the younger clergy they
are popular, because they set the rights and
powers of the Church far above their legitimate
height ; and other doctrines must doubtless be
palatable to those of the clergy, who would
establish an exclusive system against all honest
differences of religious opinion.
Do these patristic revivers consider apos
tolical succession and episcopacy, which I
revere, as necessary to salvation ? They will
find no such terms of salvation in the New
Testament. Dissent cannot be restrained by
doctrines resting on no scriptural basis. An
tiquity is valuable as a secondary help ; but is
urged in vain to establish what may militate
against common justice, and common sense.
These theological Fishers have dragged up from
the " vasty deep", in a very awkward manner,
the hoary form of antiquity, badly washed and
new-trimmed with their modern adjustments.
But Antiquity, however ancient, cannot ration
alise absurdity. They have called in to
their aid, and adapted to their purpose, the
tyrannous doctrines of Romanism, to create,
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as they vainly suppose, an impregnable rampart
against schism. Fathers and Councils, (when
judiciously used, I respect them,) Popish systems
of Divinity, casuistical Authors and the Hey-
lins, and the Mountagues, and the Colliers, et
ceteri, and the Nonjuror's, and Ignatius Loyola
himself have all been put in requisition — but of
the Holy Word of GOD, we hear very little.
What the Jesuits were, and are in the
Church of Popery, these reverend guides would
make themselves in the Church of England.
Heaven avert the omen !
Before I part with my readers, let me assure
them, that I by no means wish to apply my
austere observations to every member of the
party attacked ; but, when men voluntarily
range themselves under a particular flag, they
are, to a degree, responsible for measures
taken, and operations practised. Nor would
I be supposed ungratefully, to undervalue the
exertions of those reverend Bishops and Clergy,
Heads of Colleges and Halls, and tutors and
laity, who have manfully come forth amidst
vituperation and clamour, to bar the encroach
ing march of P  m and P  y : but much
more must be done, and that soon, and in a
co-operative manner, or our Sion will mourn,
when it is too late !

MOST REVEREND FATHERS OF THE CHURCH,
AND RESPECTED HEADS OF COLLEGES AND
HALLS : 
It is with reluctance that I am induced to
call your attention to certain practical observa
tions on the religious state of affairs in this
University, and even beyond its confines.
I prostrate myself before your superior dis
cernment, and as a suppliant for our religious
institutions, I intreat you to lend a patient
hearing to my honest and unambiguous exposi
tions. To awaken your energies, to rouse you from
the slumber of death to our religious institutions,
I tear myself from my pressing avocations — I
lose sight of  but the parade of declamation
would be misplaced in an address to men so
learned, and so pious. At once, I sound in
your ears the loud blast of warning : —
BEWARE OF POPERY:
BEWARE OF P  M.
Quick-sighted watchfulness against Popery
is necessary at all times ; and why ? Because
the conversion of heretics, as we are miscalled,
contains one of the solemn promises imposed
on Papists by their creed. But watchfulness
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is doubly necessary at this period, when a
crooked leaning towards Popery is manifested
in the writings of the O  T  s, an asser
tion, which may easily be substantiated by a
reference to the works specified in my " Prefa
tory Remarks", and to many other vouchers of
fidelity and truth. And when we hear men, who
are pledged to support the principles of the glori
ous Reformation, openly reviling that Refor
mation, and labouring to blacken its Authors ;
when men, and clergymen too, are urging on a
hollow and compromising re-union of the pure
Church of England with the corrupt Church
of Popery — who would, in short, amalgamate
saving truth, with fatal error, — ought we not
more than to suspect designs deeply hostile to
our present religious establishment ? When a
Clergyman of talent* has the front and audacity
to publish and defend such an insidious treatise
as No. 90 of the O  T  s ; and when,
moreover, other Clergymen of less talent, but
of some literary note, dare to uphold in print
the slippery sophisms of that Tract, — have we
not reason to consider those men, who are
devouring the bread of Protestantism, as foes
to their foster-mother the Church of England ?
When we see men leagued together for one
common end, the production of a religious

* This person is still permitted to officiate and preach in the
University Church of St. Mary, Oxford ! ! !

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crisis, for the alteration, (to affirm more would
be hazardous) of the present state of the esta
blishment. Most Reverend Fathers, Most Respected
Scholars and Divines, will you remain inactive
while our adversaries P  s and P  s are
unabating, untiring in their activity, both by
colloquy and by writing, to taint and corrupt
the minds of all those unfortunate Christians
who are thrown in their way, or of those whom
they assiduously search after ?
The tendency to Romanism in this Univer
sity, and out of it, amongst certain disturbers
of our peace has been clearly proved by public
documents. — The secret abettors of this regu
larly organised plan for the concussion and
change of our Protestant establishment, if I
might be allowed to say thus much, — the secret
protectors and fautors of this close and deep-
laid plan, if I dare call it so, will, perchance,
be discovered amongst persons of a higher
bearing than could have been at first con
jectured. Thus much is certain, — that several
clever men of Oxford have brought back with
their continental travelling, a deadly taste for
Romanism. Again, look at the external face of things
in some comparatively trifling points. — Popish
visits to and from  : and Popish books, and
Popish Mass-books, Popish prints, Popish
crosses, are here exposed for sale, to suit a

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growing predilection for Popery. These points
are but slight indications : — the evil, the evil,
alas ! sinks much lower into the vitals of our
establishment. Is there not a plan, is there not a conspi
racy, for altering the establishment as at
present constituted ? Does this not appear by
particular sentiments of the O  T  s, by
the sly, yet bold doctrines of the Br - Cr  ,
and of some other articles in a certain Periodi
cal — by the whole literary spawn of the party
— their semi-popish theology, their two-edged
metaphysics, their sophistical logic, their
obscure and mawkish poetry, their pious tales ,
their heavy compilations?
The adverse soul and spirit of the party to
the establishment being clearly ascertained by
their publications, by their ordinary conversa
tion, by their unceasing efforts to draw over
converts to their dangerous opinions — the pro-
pension of some of the party towards Popery
being openly knoiun — the activity of the Papists
being indubitable — the next step for considera
tion presents itself for our enquiry : what are
the most efficient measures for counteracting the
activity of Papists, and for checking the designs
of the undermining party in our Church ?
The Archbishops, and Bishops, and Clergy
in general, and the Heads of Colleges and
Halls, and the Masters of Protestant seminaries
may become mainly instrumental in warding

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off these evils which threaten us with so
formidable an aspect. In the first place it is
imperatively incumbent upon my Lords the
Bishops, to prevent by strict enquiry, by eccle
siastical authority, any tampering with the
rubrical forms as at present in use in the esta
blished Church, — for a moment, not to con
nive at any innovations, under the pretext
alleged of bringing back lawful antiquity, of
acting up to the injunctions of one of the books
of Edward VI. Forms, rites, and ceremonies,
and doctrines, by a kind of reflex power become
an index to each other, and act reciprocally on
the human mind ; for example, if we set up
images, and peculiar pictures in our Churches,
we prepare ignorant and vulgar minds for the
image service of the Church of Rome, and for
the doctrine indicated by the painter. But our
induction needs not be carried out to any fur
ther length.
Again, to pursue our humble advices : —
the congregations of different Churches should
be requested by their Bishops, to report any
innovations of ceremonies, or any holding forth
of strange doctrine. My Lords the Bishops
should propose, for their examinations in Holy
Orders, the accurate perusal of such books of
superior and acknowleged power, as bear irre
sistibly, and triumphantly, (and many such are
to be found), upon the Popish controversy.—
My Lords the Bishops, I humbly repeat it,

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should necessitate theological students to dili
gently peruse, and thoroughly digest, such works
as will fully enable them to withstand and beat
down the fallacious arguments of Papists, and
of those who approach very near them in their
doctrines and exposition of the faith. THEY
should very generally warn their Clergy and
their Christian flocks against Popish and other
errors bordering upon Popery — with all zeal
support, both by writing and preaching, the
wholesome doctrines of the Church of England,
as laid open in her Articles, Homilies, and Lit
urgy. The clergy should be exhorted to annu
ally devote at certain seasons, a due portion of
their pulpit ministrations to the exposure and
confutation of Popish doctrine.
Finally, under this head, let my Lords the
Bishops fearfully shrink from placing any clergy
men Popishly inclined, of the Laudian party, in
any official or influential situation.
To the Heads of Colleges and Halls be it
respectfully suggested, that they fix in tutorial
capacities, none as instructors but those who
are favourable to the present state of the Church
of England. Those gentlemen who have de
clared themselves zealous supporters of No. 90,
and who hold unblushingly the N  n, or
p  n principles, can never be securely en
trusted with forming the minds of young men,
destined for the ministry of the Protestant
Church of England. Again, let them take care

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that a course of religious instruction, uniformly
and striclly consonant to the present doctrines
and discipline of the Church of England, be
rigidly enforced and exactly pursued. Let
them oblige young men to peruse for every ter
minal examination, with a view to the Univer
sity examination schools, such treatises of sound
Christian teaching as possess a direct argu
mentative force to preserve the doctrines of the
Church of England as established.
To all my readers I would recommend that
the like means and measures, which have been
so successfully employed by Mr. N., and Dr. P.
and his coadjutors, for these ten years past,
to mine and sap the present state of things,
ought, so far as is compatible with straightfor
ward honesty, to be diligently employed as a
counter-mine against Papists and semi-Papists,
and covert assailants against the Church.
Further, I move that a party of learned
divines in Oxford, laying aside all minor
differences, should coalesce and enter into a
serious compact to oppose Popery, and the
apish semblance of it, by the issue of very
cheap, and yet select, tracts, and extracts from
writers of approved and long-established credit,
in favour of the orthodox Church of England.
Let us discard for awhile our differences, to
pursue an important object ; let them realize
one common fund for defraying their expenses ;

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let them hold their regular meetings for arrang
ing their proceedings; let them form out of
Oxford branch Societies, the parent Society
residing in the University ; let them be active
and co-operative in offering to the Christian
public an almost constant stream and supply
of unadulterated specimens of Christian and
moral doctrines ; let them, by every other fair
means they can devise, oppose these bold sub-
verters, and a still more powerful than at
present, a still further recoil and reaction will
ensue for the gradual extinction of Popery, and
of its twin-brother N  m amongst us Protest
ants, a name attempted to be proscribed by
some of these sons of Babel.
It is with feelings of the most serious concern
forconsequences, that the Author of these vehe
ment remarks has stepped forth before the tri
bunal of the Christian public. He cannot
behold with sleepy indifference the artful game
that is playing, the semi-Papist scene which
is now drawn up for public inspection.
The appearance of the first edition of No.
90, and its subsequent defence by clergymen of
some little note in the Church of England, and
a survey of the T  s of the  , unsealed
his eyes to the aims of the party, namely, a
crisis of crises, how far to be driven, the writer
of these observations declines for the present to
develope. Again, how could he tamely hear
the Reformation and its Authors so repeatedly

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reviled and misrepresented in the common in
tercourse of society, by men who are solemnly
bound to support the Reformation, who are
fattening on its bounty. Could he witness all
this without alarm and indignation, especially
since their aim may be nothing short of sub
version of the present state of things, to intro
duce what ? — in this place I will not denounce
them. But, Heaven be praised, the Church of
England may, nevertheless, be saved from the
undermining arts of Popish and semi-Popish
agitators, by the permanent co-operation of its
right-minded members, by the patient and
long-continued dispersion of orthodox tracts —
by the wholesome introduction of a peculiar
course of study, under uncontaminated teach
ers, to counteract and out-general our common
enemies ; by the appointment of fit and zealous
Protestant preachers, to hold forth to their
hearers the received, the truly authorized doc
trines of the Church of England, as displayed
in her Articles, Homilies, and Prayer book.
By a proper course of catechetical instruction —
but why should I recapitulate ? I must leave
many things unsaid, untouched, to be supplied
by the superior wisdom of those personages I
have presumed to address.
It is too true, the systematic activity of one
or two persons, and of several inferior assistants
of the party whose views we have been con-

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sidering, has advanced far to intoxicate many
youthful minds with erroneous notions, and to
weaken our Protestant principles ; but the same
sort of alert activity, and of continued co-ope
ration, fully brought to bear upon our aggressors,
will, under Providence, gradually correct the
evils I have deplored, and restore and ensure
religious peace and prosperity within our
Protestant barrier. But without active mea
sures, without silent and extensive co-operation,
the evil must, and will creep on and extend
itself ; and Popery, on the rear of P  m, may
rush in upon us, before we are aware of its
impetuosity, like a deluging flood of many
waters. Ye men of Oxford, I respect you — but
let us not be content with architectural demon
strations alone of zeal for the Protestant cause,
with cold stone monuments to martyrs of un
fading memory.
Such buildings may kindle the thrilling
glow of Protestant piety in the holy minds of
some, who feel as you can feel, but these tro
phies of Christian piety will create, I fear, but
a very feeble check against that Papistic and
anti-Lutheran mania, which has been lighted
up in this University by the subtle ingenuity
and persevering talent of persons too well-
marked in this place, which now, I lament, has
retired from its once towering Protestant posi
tion, a dupe to Popish arts, iuiported from the
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fostered by the smooth-tongued emissaries of
Rome. The Providence of GOD has often
protected the Reformation. May the same
Almighty Author of pure Religion rouse up the
dormant souls of all of us, individually to pur-
'sue active and permanent measures, both here,
and beyond the University, for arresting the
lurking evil which, with gangrenous infection,
seems spreading amongst us, and beyond us.
Like benighted pilgrims we have been travelling
on in darkness and in twilight, but the resplend
ent sun will again arise, and shed his far-dart
ing beams around us ; a brighter day awaits
us. The cloud is dark and sullen. May light
and sunshine again burst forth on our religious
hemisphere : — Omnibus Pax sit in
DEO.

POSTSCRIPT.
We may shortly expect the appointment in Oxford, and
in one or two other localities, of a select i Committee of
Divines, for a patient examination of the writings, and
a scrutinizing enquiry into the conduct and movements, of
the T  n party. The Archbishops and Bishops, with
the Heads of Houses, and Members of Convocation, will
afterwards, we hope, proceed impartially to pass their
condemnation, where called for. Whether any vote of
censure will be passed at the ensuing election of Poetry
Professor, I know not. We have also just heard rumours
respecting the revival of suffragan Bishops. Surely it
would be sufficient, to arm an additional number of clergy
men with archidiaconal powers in every diocese : these
might watch against innovations of doctrine, and changes
of ceremonies, &c. but, really, I cannot but apprehend
that the present number of Bishops is quite- sufficient for
the sacred offices of Ordination, and Confirmation.
Suffragan Bishops might, with our present divisions, prove
a troublesome, and somewhat uncontroulable, element in
our Hierarchy of the Church of England.

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Means for ARRESTING THE PROGRESS OF POPERY,
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humbly offered to the consideration of the Lords Spiritual, and
to the Heads and Governors of Colleges and Halls, by A
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