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CATECHISM OF
PUSEYISM.

A PLAIIf TRACT FOE PLAIN PEOPLE.

" There can he no doubt, that it is the intention of the celebrated
Professor Pvsey to bring about, if he and his party can muster strength
enough, the re-union of the Churches of England and Rome."
L'ami de la Rblioion.
" For a long course of years, they have been attempting to undermine
the foundation of Protestantism : they have held out the hand of friendship
to the Church of Rome, while they have professed to deprecate its most
pernicious errors."
Dr. Shuttleworth.
" It is not Rome in Italy which we need so much to fear, though if be
the seminary of heretics and traitors ; hut Rome in England, Rome at
home ; I mean the popish faction among vs, which casteth continually
fire-balls of dissension in the state, and of schism in the church, to set all
in a combustion. 'O take away the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the
grapes ' of that far-spreading vine which God hath planted among us by
his word, and watered by the blood of so many noble martyrs. What ar^
the great foxes but the priests and Jesuits ? What are the little foxes0(^t
the demi-pelagian cubs, which will spoil our fairest clusters, the colleget
of both universities, if in time they be not looked unto ? " SiBBES, 1620.
" Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the
saints."
St. Jddb.

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INTRODUCTION.

The question, "What is Puseyism?" is now asked with
intense interest, and with good reason, by thousands, who have
neither the means to purchase, nor the time to peruse, the
voluminous writings of those who propound or defend the
heresy : and, because such persons may be easily unsettled
from the simplicity of their faith, if not from the gi-ound of
their hope, by subtle sophistries, which they are unable to
answer ; it appears, under such circumstances, a duty which
ought not to be delayed, to furnish a few plain and simple views
of those subtleties, and, as far as may be, an antidote to them,
so that the unlearned and the uninitiated " ma.y have somewhat
to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart,"
(2 Cor. V. 12.)
It is very true, that the sacred Volume itself, prayerfully
studied and rightly understood, furnishes the best antidote to
the misleading and puerile dogmas of the modern Oxford
Tractarians ; and, therefore, let its inspired and admonitory
counsels, (so strikingly applicable to existing errors,) be heard
before all others. " That roe henceforth he no more children,
tossed to and fro, and carried about n-itJi every wind of doc
trine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, 'ivliereby
they lie in wait to deceive," (Eph. iv. 14.) "Beware, lest
any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after
the TRADITION OF MEN, after the rudiments of the world, and
^ a.fter Christ." " Let no man therefore judge you in
meat, or in drink, or in re.spect of an holy day; which are
a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ." " Let
no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humility,
and WORSHIPPING of angels ; intruding into those things
which he hath not seen, vainly puffed tip by Ids fleshly mind."
" Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom vi will wor
ship, and HUMILITY, and neglecting of the body ; " but " vihich
all are to perish with the usinaj' because " after the command
ments and doctrines of M^fr' "Touch not, taste not,
HANDLE NOT." (See Col. ii. 8^6, 17, 18, 23, 22, 21.)
The following answers have been gathered from various
sources, and most of them will carry their own recommendation
with them. They are designed for the use of any who, in
these " perilous times,"' may clioose to read or circulate them ;
and especially for gratuitous distribution among the poorer
members of all Protestant Christian Churches in this land, now
openly threatened with an inundation of that ill-disguised
Popery which is vulgarly called " Puseyism."

THE
CATECHISM OF PUSEYISM.

I. What is Puseyism ?
"A SECRET EGAD FOE PoPEEY."
" ' We do not hold that Rome was built in a day,' says
Archbishop Usher, ' or that the great dunghill of errors,
which we now see in it, was raised in an age:' neither
do we hold that Rome could be rebuilt in any country,
where she has been cast down, in a generation ; nor that
the reconstruction must necessarily be called Rome, and
have all the forms and outward and visible signs of that
inward and spiritual departure from grace which is
usually denominated Popery. Should we conceive of the
grand enemy, actually employing a band of men, con
cealed under the garb of Protestants, (and we may do so
for the sake of illustration without offence,) to lay open a
secret road for Popery, into the very citadel of the Pro
testantism of England, we could readily understand that
they would select the most gradual means, as the most
effectual ; the most noiseless and unseen, as the most en
snaring ; that they would seem to b^ great opposers of
Romanism, in some points, while insinuating it in others;
would break ground at a distance, where they would be
least feared and remarked ; get their position fixed in
peace, 'while men slept;' then cautiously commence
approaches, gradually familiarising the watchers upon the
walls with the sound of their working, and never putting
forth a new approach till the novelty of the former was
forgotten. We can readily conceive that the weapon of
such a siege would not be as the Roman catapult, hurling,
in open day, its bolts and fiery darts — some Christian
Archimedes, with the bright mirror of the Word, would
soon burn up the engine, and put the workers to con
fusion ; but the weapon would be the pick of the sapper,
digging at the base ; and the foundation selected would
be that of the bastion, which, while in reality the key of
the fortress, is least known in that importance to the
multitude, and therefore the least watched ; and their
object would be, like that of the gunpowder plot, under
the senate-house and throne, to subjugate the whole, in
the ruin of the head : and could they only persuade some

honoured and trusted men of the city, under the sincere
supposition, on their part, that they were only searching
after hid treasures of antiquity, or endeavouring to effect
some useful restoration in the old walls of a venerable
monument of ancient prowess, to do the digging for them,
till they themselves could work unseen in the mine, it
would indeed be great gain. By and by it would be seen
that a portion of the wall was fallen — then another, but
each with such interval, that all lookers-on had grown
familiar with the sight of the first dilapidation, before the
second was permitted. By and by that bastion is in ruins,
and the city at the mercy of the enemy — ^but all has gone
on so gradually and imperceptibly, that it excites but little
apprehension. Now because there is little change to the
eye ; no change of accustomed names ; no overt invasion
of old attachments and usages ; no hoisting of the flag of
the Pope, men may be saying, ' Where is the fear of his
coming; for all things continue as they were from the
beginning?' But, like Samson asleep, their strength is
departed, and the Philistine is upon them. That strong
bastion of our Reformed Church is justification by faith ;
erected ' upon the foundation of the apostles and pro
phets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.'
That gone, the temple is taken, the ark is in captivity ;
' from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed.'
What, then, if there never grow up over the desolate
courts of the Lord's house the thorns and thistles, and all
those rank growths, whose names are in the breviary of
abominations indigenous to Romanism ? Satan is well
content. The land is desolate. The work is done. A dis
play of ruin might make it only the less permanent."*
II. What is Puseyism ?
A MASK FOE PoPEEY.
Take the following extracts from the celebrated No. 90
of the Oxford Tracts, in proof of this.
On the 6th and 20th Articles on the sufficiency of Holy
Scripture, Mr. Newman observes, "The books which
are commonly called Apoceypha are not asserted in this
article to be destitute of inspiration, or to be simply
human, but to be not canonical." And again ; " In the
sense in which it is commonly understood at this day.
Scripture, it is plain, is not, on Anglican principles, the
EULE of FAITH."
On the Wth. Article, Justification by Faith only, the
writer observes, (blending in his reasoning the Homilies
* Bishop M' Ilvaine.

with the Article,) " They do not imply a denial of bap
TisM as a means and an instrument of justification.
" Nor does the sole instrumentality of faith interfere witl
the doctrine of works being a mean also."
On the 25th Article, The Sacraments, it is observed
" This Article does not deny the five rites in question, (viz
Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and E.xtrem
Unction,) to be sacraments, but to be sacraments in that sens
in which Baptism and the Lord's Supper are sacraments.
On the 31st Article — Masses — it is observed, " Nothing
can shew more clearly than this passage (see the Article)
that the Articles are not written against the creed o
the Roman Church, but against actual existing errors ii
it." Here " the sacrifice of the mass" is not spoken of, ii
which the special question of doctrine would be intro
duced ; but, " the sacrifice of masses, certain observancei
for the most part private and solitary." And again-
after a laboured train of reasoning, which would do credi
to any Jesuit, he says, " On the whole, then, it is con
ceived, that the article before us neithee speaks against
the mass IN itself, nor against its being an offering
though commemorative for the quick and the dead foi
the remission of sins."
The concluding paragraphs of a pamphlet of 83 octave
f)ages, full of such reasoning as the above, contain the foL
owing observations : " The articles are evidently framed
on the principles of leaving open laege questions oe
which controversy hinges. They state broadly extreme
truths, and are silent about their adjustment. For in
stance, they say that all necessary faith must be proved
from Scripture ; but do not say who is to prove it. They
say that the Church has authority in controversies ; they
do not say what authority. They say that it may enforce
nothing beyond Scripture ; but do not say where the remedy
lies, when it does. They say that works before grace and
justification are worthless and worse, and that works after
grace and justification are acceptable ; bpt they do not
speak at all of works with God's aid, 5e/bre justification,"
&:c. &c. Finally, Mr. Newman, a beneficed clergyman
of the Church of England, and a public teacher in" the
university of Oxford, observes, " The Protestant con
fession WAS drawn up with the purpose of including
Catholics, and Catholics now will not be excluded."*
Let the following observations of Mr. Sibthorp, formerly
•¦^ Vide Tracts, No. 90, Third Edition, Dated, "Oxford, The
Feast of St. John the Evangelist," 1841.

a clergyman of the church of England, and now a Ro
man Catholic priest, form a part of this answer. Mr. S.
is shewing reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic: —
" But another ground has within the last few years been
taken. * * * It is this, that the doctrines of the Catholic
Church, generally considered as denied by Protestants,
are not really denied by the Anglican Establishment, but
that in principle, or tacitly, she admits them all; and
that their apparent condemnation by her, in her Thirty-
nine Articles, is no condemnation, except of certain prac
tised abuses of them, which existed in the sixteenth
century. It is, I say, maintained by many, and that
publicly, * * * that the Anglican Church is truly Catho
lic, as it respects these doctrines, and that no one, who
subscribes the Thirty-nine Articles, is called on to reject
purgatory, transubstantiation, invocation of the B. Vir
gin Mary, and of the Saints, the efficacy of the sacrifice
of the mass, as defined by the council of Trent, &c.
In other Avords, he may be a Tridentine Catholic at heart,
and an Anglican clergyman by profession. This is a
startling position, and, as might be supposed, has startled
the Established Church throughout her length and
breadth, from Berwick-upon-Tweed to the land's end,
A sound has gone forth from Oxford, which has troubled
alike the Metropolitan at Lambeth and the humble
curate in the Welsh mountains. It has penetrated the
British Senate (peradventure it may not be unheard in
another council chamber); it certainly has not been un
heard in the Vatican. That the Anglican Established
Church is, in her doctrines, essentially one with
RoaiE, seems one of the surprising discoveries of this age
of discovery ; but such is the purport of the celebrated
Tract, No. 90."
Again, speaking of Mr. Newman's reasoning upon the
mass, Mr. Sibthorp observes: "Without uttering a harsh
word upon the reasoning of Tract 90, in this case (and it
is a fair specilnen of its general reasoning), I will only
say, that an individual may well be pardoned if he cannot
assent to its corrcct'.iess. It need create no surprise, if,
after careful reflection, he should come to the conclusion,
that if Rome be right, the Anglican Church is thoroughly
wrong." And again, he observes, " If Rome be right,
these persons do not go far enough ; but if Rome be
wrong, they have gone much to far."
And again, " probably not one clergyman in ten thou
sand, who has subscribed to these Articles, ever supposed
them to admit of such an interpretation,"

What is Puseyism 1
" An inclined plane to Popery."
" It is Popery somewhat diluted : — diluted, and partly
disguised for the present, in order to render it the more
palatable to those, who may still have some misgivings
about receiving it pure and unalloyed, as the article issues
from the grand laboratory on the banks of the Tiber ;
but containing the genuine quintessence of all that consti
tutes the mystery of iniquity." *
"Truth compels us to direct our eye within the pale of
our own Church, and to admit, that even there the spirit
of Popery is at work. If there 'ever was a time when it
behoves all to be on their watch towers, it is now ; and
the responsibility of those, who venture to administer to
the religious guidance and direction of others, will be ill
discharged, if they do not lift up the voice of warning,
and speak out boldly against the errors that prevail.
Sentiments have for some time been maintained and
preached, which plainly lay the foundation for any Popish
superstition that men can wish to establish ."f
IV. What is Puseyism?
Popery adapted to England.
A system of externalism and exclusivism, tending to
the worst forms of intolerance, pride, and bigotry.
A system, which sets up tradition as of equal authority
with the Bible, and pays as much homage to the sayings
of the Fathers as to the writings of the Apostles, fre
quently interpreting the latter by the former.
A system, which substitutes forms and ceremonies for
the preaching of God's Word, and exalts sacraments
and ordinances into the place of Christ himself,
A system, which teaches or sanctions, in its close imita
tion of Rome, the lighting up of large candles at mid-day
upon the altar — the elevation of the cross above the
communion table — the decoration of places of worship
with pictures, crucifixes, images of the saints, &c, — the
superstitious regard to the vestments of the "priests — "
the turning of the bach of the priest upon the people —
obeisances to the altar— the eucharist, &c. &c,
A system, which recommends the preaching of the
Gospel " with eeserve," and " throws a veil over the
cross";]; of our Redeemer, and so lowers the glorious
doctrine of the Christian atonement,
A system, which exalts Romanism and deteriorates
* Welshman. See also the foregoing answer, t Rev. Carus Wilson,
+ Bishop of Winchester's Charge,

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Protestantism — which laments the latter, as little better
than a curse, while it sighs for the return of "better days."
V, What is Puseyism?
A fettee to peivate judgment.
The following is the conclusion to which one of the
leading organs of Puseyism comes, respecting the right
of private judgment: —
" We consider, then, that on the whole, the notion of
gaining religious truth for ourselves,by our private enquiry,
whether by reading or thinking, whether by studying
Scripture or other books, has no broad sanction in Scrip
ture ; is not impressed upon us by its general tone, nor
enjoined in any of its commands. The great question
which it puts before our private judgment is. Who is God's
prophet, and where ? Who is to be considered the voice
of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church?"*
On which question it is observed by the Rev. E, Young,
in his " Protestantism or Popery," " The power which
pronounces Holy Scripture only sufficient when lighted
up, not by the Holy Spirit, but by the Tradition of
the Church, may be said to have achieved the seeming
impossibility of sitting as God in the temple of God,"
"It is of the essence of Puseyism, to repudiate the right
of any man to think and act for himself. It demands the
surrender of his private judgment, and the independence
of his actions to the teachings and injunctions of the
Church, Men are to be mere machines — passive agents,
equally in civil and religious matters. ' Hear the
Church,' is the sum and substance of Puseyism, It sets
aside, with unceremonious hand, the Bible and the
Constitution ; and would compel universal obedience to
its despotic dicta,"t
Professor Keeble, in reference to " Scripture reading,
and the exercise of private judgment," writes thus: —
" Such troublers of the Christian community would, in a
healthy state of things, be sile.nced, or put out of it,"
VI, What is Puseyism?
An attack on the Christian Ministry,
The patron of the baseless dogma of apostolical
succession, which goes to shut out of any right to preach
the gospel, or administer the sacraments, and of all par
ticipation in the commission of Christ, to " go into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature," all the
holy, faithful, laborious, successful, and apostolical men,
* British Critic. f Advertiser.

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in every Church, and of every name whatsoever, except
those of the Church of Rome and of England,* Whereas,
one of the archbishops -f of the latter Church, aware of
the insuperable difficulties with which such a sweeping
doctrine is clogged, has lately asserted, that, "succession
in the apostolic office, the Apostles have none. As
witnesses of the resurrection — as dispensers of miraculous
gifts — as inspired oracles of divine revelation — they have
no successors. But as members, as ministers, as govern
ors of Christian communities, their successors are the
regularly-admitted members — the lawfully-ordained mi
nisters — the regular and recognized governors, of a regu
larly subsisting Church,"
"It is no wonder, therefore," continues the Arch
bishop, "that the advocates of this theory studiously
disparage reasoning, deprecate all exercise of the mind
and reflection, decry appeals to evidence, and lament
that even the power of reading should be imparted
to the people. It is not without cause that they dread
and lament ' an age of too much light, and wish to
involve religion in a solemn and awful gloom.' It is not
without cause that, having removed the Christian's con
fidence from a rock, to base it on sand, they forbid all
prying curiosity, to examine their foundation."J
"I defy any one to prove," says the Rev. Carus
Wilson, "' clearly, an unbroken line, from the Apostles
to the clergy of our Church. But, supposing it can be
proved ever so satisfactorily, I maintain that the clergy
have no ground for self-importance because of such a
discovery. If apostolical spirit he wanting, what avails
apostolical succession."
VII, Wliat is Puseyism ?
The anathema to Protestantism.
It is to " say anathema to the principle of Protestant-
* One of the divines of this school at the west end of London has
put forth the following sentiments in a certain doctrinal Catechism CO
in use among his congregation : — " Q. Are not dissenting teachers
ministers of the gospel? A. Noj they have never been called after the
manner of Aaron. Q. But do they not say that God has called them
inwardly ? A. Yesj but if he had, he would have called them, according
to the order of his word, outwardly. Q. Is it not very wicked to Assume
this sacred office? A. It isj as it is evident from the case of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram. Q. Who appoints dissenting teachers ? A.
They either wickedly appoint each other, or are not appointed at all :
and so, in either ease, their assuming the office is very wicked. Q. But
are not dissenting teachers thought to be very good men? A. They
are often thought to be such; and so were Korah, Dathan, and
Abiram, till God shewed them to be very wicked," &c. &c.
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ism;"i to "depart more and more from the English
reformation ; " ^ to sigh to think that we should be sepa
rate from Rome ; ^ to " regard Rome, as our mother ; " *
" through whom we were born to Christ."^
" O mother Church of Rome, why has thy heart
Beat so untruly toward thy northern child ? "
Lyra Apostolica.
It is to set the Fathers against the Reformation ; * to
regard Luther as something worse than an enthusiast ;
and to lament " the great tendency to sermons, since the
Reformation," as indicating "a low and decayed state" of
things — recommending, meanwhile, that such passionate
appeals to the feelings " should be" given outside the
Church, and not be " allowed to occupy the place of
religious ivorship."-f
VIII, What is Puseyisml
An enemy to the Protestant Church,
It is to denounce the Church of England, as being " in
bondage, as working in chains, and as teaching with the
stammering lips of ambiguous formularies;"^ it is to
eulogise the Church of Rome, as giving " free scope to
the feelings of awe, mystery, tenderness, reverence, and
devotedness ; " '^ as " having high gifts and strong claims
on our admiration, reverence, love, and gratitude," ^
And this is the Church, one of whose organs, (the
"Tablet,") contained in its number for Dec. 21, 1841,
the following paragraph :
" The Archbishop of Canterbury, would have to be
baptised conditionally, before he could receive absolution
from the humblest Catholic priest ; and before he could
minister at the altar, he would have to submit to a new
ordination. It is certain that he is a mere layman ; it is
doubtful whether, waiving the questions of heresy and
schism, he is even a Christian at all,"
IX. What is Puseyismi
The apologist for the Mass Book.
It is to declare that " our Articles are the offspring
of an uncatholic age; "9 and that the communion ser
vice is a judgment upon the Church." i" It is to teach
* Bishop of Winchester's Cliarge.
t Bricknell's " Tracts for the Times continued." Page 16,
'Palmer's Letter to Golightly. ^British Critic for July, 1841.
Tracts for the Times. ' Palmer's Letter. = Tracts for the Times.
* Tracts for the Times. ' Newman's Letter to Jelf.
Tracts for the Times. » Idem. '» Froude's Remains.

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that the Romish " ritual, was a precious possession ; " '^
and that the mass-book is " a sacred and most precious
monument of the Apostles." ^^
One of the Oxford Tract writers* would have, in the
English Liturgy — 1 . " The ancient form of sacrifice,
the words 'Altar ' and ' Mass ; ' "2. Prayers for the
faithful departed; 3, The sign of the cross rbveatedvy
used in each of the sacraments ; 4, The use of chrism, in
baptism and confirmation ; 5. Extreme Unction." -t"
After stating the facts of Mr, Sibthorp, and several
other of the clergy and laity of the Church of England,
going over to the Romish Church, the " Tablet " of the
26th Mar, 1842, adds, " Every day brings us similar evi
dence of the progress, indeed, we may truly say, the
strides, which our religion is making in this country,
among the most influential orders of society."
X. What is Puseyism ?
The contemner of the Holy Scriptures.
It is to assert, that " Scripture is not the rule of faith ; "^^
that "the oral tradition of the Church is a fuller exposition
of God's revealed truth;"i* that the Bible, "placed without
note or comment in the hands of uninstructed persons, is
not calculated in ordinary cases to make them wise unto
salvation ;"i* and that only persons disclaiming the right
of private judgment, in things pertaining to God, are
members of the Church of Christ." ^^
The Tractarians " deny the right of the common people
to read the Scriptures, unless they have first read the Com
mon Prayer Book, and are prepared to interpret the Scrip
tures by it, instead of interpreting the Prayer Book by the
Bible, They also set up tradition as a sure and infalli
ble guide in all matters of religion, and view the inspired
Volume as subordinate iu authority to \t"% /"^
"But," asks the truly apostolic Bishop of Calcutta, "has
the Father of the spirits of all flesh (Numb, xvi, 22,) sent
a message of mercy to his wandering children, and is it
not intelligible? Has the sovereign Ruler of mankind
issued a pardon to a guilty race, and is it obscure ? Has
the infinite and self-existent God, the source of all wisdom,
* Mr. Williams, t See Bricknell's Letter to the Bp. of Oxford, 1842,
J The following is the view entertained of the Bible Society
by the writers and followers of this school : " The Bible Society is a
league of all sects and shapes of mischief for the purpose of distributing
the letter of the Bible without insisting on the belief of its spirit. Is
this," they ask with great coolness, " A Christian Society ?"
" Ti-acts for the Times. " Idem,
'' Tracts for the Times. '¦* Linwood's Sermons. " Idem. '" Idem,

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mercy, and grace, given his own co-equal and co-eternal
Son to die a sacrifice for sins, and is the record ambiguous?
Was the preaching of our Lord and his Apostles intel
ligible, and is the written transcript of it unintelligible ?
Has every human letter addressed to a friend or body of
friends, to direct their opinions and practice, a distinct
meaning resting on the logical, and recognised, and well-
understood use of terms ? unless, indeed, there be a design
to deceive, than which a baser crime can scarcely be
named ; and are the inspired letters of the Apostles,
written to their converts, on the most important of all
topics, to be charged with a tendency to misguide the
flocks to whom they were sent? Have they no distinct
meaning ? Are they really open to the glosses imposed
by the sceptic and the infidel ?
" No ; we reject the calumny with abhorrence. We
assert that nine-tenths of these Epistles, and of the
whole Bible, except those portions which relate to pro
phecy, are obvious to every candid, attentive, and sincere
reader, using the various means for understanding them
to which we have so often adverted ; and that most of tlie
difficulties in the remaining portion, for difficulties con
fessedly there are, arise either from the incomprehensible
nature of the things revealed, and so admit of no remedy
by tradition, or they occur in the subordinate relations
and bearings of the various truths with each other ; or
they spring from imperfect readings or translations ;
or they affect matters of history, chronology, geography,
and national manners, not touching practically on the main
purport of the revelation. We maintain, then, boldly, in
spite of all insinuations to the contrary, that there is an
obvious, determinate, plain sense in Holy Scripture, and
thatit does not require, as a necessary addition. Catholic
tradition and the teaching of the Church."*
XI. IVhat is Puseyism ?
The defender of Baptismal Regeneration.
It teaches that " baptism, and not faith, is the pri
mary instrument of justification ;"ir that we are not to
"neglect the doctrine of justification by works ;"« and
that " the prevailing notion of bringing forward the doc
trine of the atonement explicitly and prominently, on all
occasions, is evidently quite opposed to the teaching of
the Scripture." ^9 ^
" The Puseyites maintain, that all children baptised by
* Bishop W^ilson's Sermon on the " Rule of Faith."
' Newman on Justification. "Linwood's Sermons. "'Tracts for
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the Church are converted at their baptism, and that there
can be no saving repentance for sins after persons have
reached the years of maturity. They admit, however,
that there may be a re-conversion by means of the Sacra
ments. They repudiate every thing of an evangelical
nature, and place the whole essence of religion in the
observance of external forms. They are great sticklers
for fasts and feasts, and attach greater importance to them
than to the Sabbath day,"*
"Baptismal regeneration is one of the dogmas of Pusey
ism : the attaching an undue importance to the outward
sign, and taking it for granted that all baptized persons
are, as a matter of course, made partakers of a new and
divine nature; so that to preach conversion to the baptized
is considered as unscriptural, "f
XII, What is Puseyism ?
The deifying of the Sacraments,
It is to assert, that in the Lord's Supper " Christ is
present under the form of bread and wine;-" that he is
then personally with us;"^i and that the clergy are " in
trusted with the awful and mysterious gift of making the
bread and wine Christ's body and blood." "^
It is to put the sacraments in the place of God, by
declaring that they " are the sources of divine grace, "^'
" Their opinions on the subject of transubstantiation are
substantially the same as those of the Roman Catholics.''^
Sacramental efficacy is among the very first principles
of this modern heresy, inclusive of course of the popish
doctrine of the real presence ; — but among the '¦'first
principles of the doctrine of Christ " is found the com
memorative, not the sacrificial character of the holy
Eucharist. " For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink
this cup, YE DO SHEW THE LoEd's DEATH TILL HE COME,"
(1 Cor, xi. 26.)
XIII. What is Puseyism ?
Popery in its essentials.
It maintains the lawfulness of prayer for the dead;^*
it makes a distinction between venial and mortal sins f^
and asserts, that a person may believe that there is a
purgatory, that relics may be venerated, that saints may be
invoked, that there are seven sacraments, that the mass is
an offering for the quick and dead for the remission of sins,
and that he may yet with a good conscience subscribe the
Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, ^^
* Observer. f Rev. Cams Wilson. J Observer.
""Linwood's Sermons. " Tracts for the Times. "'Idem. "^Idem.
"• Tracts for the Times, " Idem. « Idem, No. 90.

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" The Puseyites maintain, that departed saints are to be
prayed to, and that prayers are to be made for them, Tliey
believe, in other words, in a modified form of purgatory,"*
In a publication, recently issued from Oxford,t dated
Feast of All Saints," two divines are quoted to prove,
that " respect and honour are due to the pictures of Christ,
of the blessed Virgin, and of the saints, which may be
had in houses and set up in churches."
XIV. What is Puseyism ?
The misinterpretee of Eternal Truth,
Putting the visible Church in the place of Christ
by teaching that " she alone is the true hiding place, into
which the servants of God may flee for refuge and be
safe,t2r " If we receive this doctrine we must re-write the Scrip
ture. For if there is a truth which is declared through
out the whole New Testament, it is that God has estab
lished his relations with man through the medium of
individual faith in Jesus Christ, and that we have our
religious life by virtue of union with him, of which union
faith is the instrument,
" Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest," Shall we write instead, " Come
into the Church and the Church shall give you rest ? "
" I am the way, and the truth, and the life ; no man
Cometh unto the Father but by me." Shall we substitute
the Church Catholic for the undivided Saviour ?
" All that the Father giveth me shall come to me,
and him that cometh unto me I will in nowise cast
out," Shall we write instead, " Him that cometh into
the Church, the Church will in nowise cast out?"
* Observer.
t The Doctrine of the Catholic Church in England on the Holy
Eucharist, illustrated by Extracts from her great Divines.
X "We must beware,'' says the Bishop of Chester, in his late
Charge, " of assigning to the members, or to the body which the mem
bers compose, a power which really belongs to the Head alone. * * *
The ministrations of the Church are the door by which the community
of the faithful on earth is entered ; but Christ is the only door, by
which heaven can be entered; and many may be admitted into the
visible fold, who remain for ever unknown to the true Shepherd. The
members of the Church are branches of the Vine, but the Church is
not the Vine : that name belongs to Christ alone. The Church is the
'pillar and ground of the truth,' but the Church is not 'the
TRUTH ;' neither hath it life in itself. Christ alone is 'the Way, the
Truth, and the Life,' through which every individual member of the
Church must seek access to God."
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" Can we be justified in thus altering the terms of
Scripture in a matter of so much importance as everlast
ing salvation ?" *
" They look on all beyond the pale of the Church with
a harsh and uncharitable eye ; and though they do not go
so far as to say that no dissenter can be saved, they assert
the right of the Church to compel conformity to her ritual.
They do not disguise the fact, that if they were armed
with the requisite civil power, they would exercise that
power, for the purpose of extinguishing dissent, "f
" But," observes the Rev. Carus Wilson, " there is a
universal Church of Christ throughout the world, consist
ing of the faithful ; to build up and perfect which, all the
enclosures of separate communion are respectively the
instruments,"

" Such are the leading principles of Puseyism,
The party supporting it has increased with astounding
rapidity within the last five years. It is an ascertained
fact, that a great majority of the students of divinity, in
the University of Oxford, are deeply imbued with its
spirit,^ The leading clergymen in Oxford, who have
identiiied themselves with the new faith, are Dr, Pusey,
Professor Keeble, Professor Sewell, and Mr. Newman,
In Yorkshire, its most zealous abettor is the Rev, Dr.
Hook, of Leeds. Multitudes, however who do not avow
the principles of Puseyism, are imbued with its spirit.
" The Puseyites have several influential organs in the
public press. One morning paper, every one knows, has
identified itself with their cause. The ' Quarterly
Review' has fairly committed itself with them. The
' British Critic,' another quarterly review of great
influence and circulation, is entirel} under their control,
being edited by Mr, Newman, the editor of the ' Tracts
for the Times,' and the author of No. 90 of those tracts,
which has excited so much attention. The ' British
Magazine' is also a Puseyite publication ; and the Liver-
* Bishop of Chester's Charge. t Obseiver,
X It was recently stated in a popular jommal, that " out of 15000
regular clergymen va. the Church of England, it is presumed that 11000
are at least tinctured with Puseyism, if not avowedly Puseyite in their
doctrines, or views of doctrine."
A distinction may, however, be drawn between such as embrace the
dogmas of Puseyism in their doctrinal character, and such as only adopt
them in an ecclesiastical sense ; or who lay stress chiefly on what is
ceremonial or external. And, perhaps, a still farther distinction may
be made between these and such as insist, principally,' upon the 'fable'
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pool Mail, and several other provincial newspapers, have
been specially retained to promote their principles,^ Tlie
Puseyites are, in short, more numerous and formidable
than is supposed."
The heresy is spreading everywhere ; abroad, as well
as at home. Our colonies, old and new, are beginning
to be tinctured with the blighting influence. Our Mis
sionary Institutions are beginning to feel it in various
ways. In Madras, and its surrounding territory, it is
understood that the bishop, and his clei'gy, are equally
emulous to spread the poisonous leaven ; and hence, in
his recent admirable production, the Bishop of Calcutta
most correctly depicts the inevitable influence of any
considerable extension of Puseyism in India, " I am full
of fear," says he, " every thing is at stake. There seems
something judicial in the rapid spread of these opinions.
If they should come over here, and pervade the teaching
of our chaplains, the views and proceedings of our mis
sionaries, our friendly relations with other bodies of
Christians, and our position amongst the Hindoos and
Mahometans, Ichabod (i. e., the glory is departed,) may
be inscribed on our Church in India, All real advances
in the coiiversion of the heathen will stop. Our scattered
Christian flocks will miss the sound and wholesome
nourishment for their souls. Our converts will quickly
dwindle away to a nominal profession. Our native
catechists and missionaries will be bewildered, A
scheme, which substitutes self, and form, and authority of
office, for weight of doctrine, and activity of love, will be
eagerly imbibed. The spirituality of our missions will
be gone,"

POSTSCRIPT.

It is surely high time for the lovers of truth in every part of the Church
of Christ to bestir themselves, and no longer look on with apathy. While
many of the appointed watchmen of the Chm-eh appear to slumber; while
a sort of deadly infatuation appears to possess those who might be influen
tial in "staying the plague," Home tb,icmphs in the anticipation of
assured victory. Oxford is fighting her battles, and preparing her way !
No COMBINED effort is made by the Church of England : — Dr. Pusey is at
this moment threatening the Archbishop of Canterbury with alarge secession
from the Church if the sympathies of his school are not responded to ! "If
these things be done in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" " la
there no balm in Gilead," for these wounds in the Church? " Is there no
physician there ? "
THE END.

Loiidou ; J, Teulon, Printer, ,'i7, Cheapside.

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