Puseyites (So Called) No Friends of Popery

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Excerpt from Puseyites (So Called) No Friends of Popery: A Letter to Sir T. Trayton Fuller Elliott Drake, Bart., Containing Remarks on the Letter of Lord John Russell to the Bishop of Durham, and That of Sir Trayton Drake to the Dean of ExeterI have this morning received your circular, requesting my attendance at a Meeting, to be held at the Deanery, on Friday next, to consider what measures may best be taken to repel such an aggression on the principles of the Reformation as has recently been made by the Pope, in establishing an Episcopate in England.I am by no means taken by surprise in this assumption of authority by the Bishop of Rome.The conduct of some portion of the Clergy, and especially in this Diocese, has for some time excited in my mind serious apprehension that some measure of this kind would issue from the Vatican. The introduction of Obsolete forms in the beautiful simplicity of our Church Service has Offered violence to the feelings of the people, and given serious offence in many instances. In the parish in which I reside, it has had the effect Of scattering a united congregation into the various adjoining parishes, or to the dissenting chapel, and at this moment a Free Church, Of considerable dimensions, is under construction by voluntary contributions.I yield to no man in devoted attachment to the pure doctrines of the Christian Church, as declared at the Reformation, and it has given me much pain to observe the divisions and dissentions which have of late years existed among the Clergy, many of whom have seriously endangered the substance of it, by attaching too much importance to the shadow.I regret I cannot give my attendance to your proposed Meeting, but should it manifest a feeling Of concord and harmony, and divest itself of party spirit, I shall be happy to join in addressing the Throne and the Legislature to resist any inroads on the supreme authority of the Sovereign Of this country in all matters and things, whether spiritual or temporal.I shall feel obliged by your reading this letter to the gentlemen who may be assembled at the Deanery on Friday next.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.