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all, if they shall understand that such full-orbed truths alone accord with the Church or the Scripture, or can satisfy the minds of those without our communion, who are seeking rest and not finding it, I am sanguine enough to believe, that their hopes and their numbers will increase, even as their discontent with every school and every leader increases; and, in truth, it is worth while (had we no better recompense) to want the sympathy of all fierce parties and all careless people, or to endure their contempt, for the sake of one hearty and affectionate greeting from a Christian of this order.

In this faith I am encouraged to repeat my conviction, that the two principles which I have been setting forth, when certain notions which interfere with their soundness and stability have been cleared away, will be found, not the same, (if they were, each could not contribute its quota to the truth,) but strictly harmonious and needful to each other. The High Churchman declares the origin or ground of our salvation to be in the Will of God; the Evangelical believes the order and method of our salvation to be by our being constituted and redeemed in Christ. The one says God hath chosen and adopted you to "be his sons;" the other, "God hath chosen and adopted you to be his sons in Christ." The one lays the foundation of a universal family; the other gives the foundation on which the faith and life of each member of the family is to rest, as he grows to man's estate. The one shows the perfect

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freeness of God's grace; the other that grace, in its proper sense, can only appertain to a spiritual creature. Take the first principle without the second, and the church sinks into a world, as it did under the Popedom; take the second principle without the first, and the church sinks into a sect, or a body of sects, as it has been inclined to do since the Reformation. In one you have a vague sense of unity, superseding personal faith in the majority, leaving personal faith without its object to the higher few; converting the first into mere animals, the last into mystics. In the other you have a vague sense of personal distinctness diffused through society, making the ignorant impatient of being taught how to think and how to live, because every man has a right to think for himself, and to live as he likes; turning the more reflective into a separate caste, full of proud thoughts and dark reserve, with Stand by, I am holier;' or Stand by, I am wiser than thou,' expressed in every action, and movement, and look. Safety in a crowd; the notion of getting safe into port, because the ship in which we are freighted is sure to arrive there, without reflecting that it is possible to die on the passage, is the continual temptation of the first; the feeling,

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There are but very few tickets of admission to the bowers of Paradise, and I have one of them,' is the desperate delusion of the second. The conscientious among the former are inly racked, because they but dimly see that He, who they confess most readily, died for their sins, also rose

again for their justification. The conscientious in the other class are not less tormented, because they cannot find what warrant, or what power they have to believe in this justification. And if from these practical effects, we return to the principles, we perceive, as I have shown already, that each, since it has been separated from its twin stem, has become overgrown with a fungus, which is feeding upon it and gradually destroying it. Beautifully did the excellent and delightful poet of Fairy Land shadow forth the causes and consequences of this separation, in his history of the arts by which Archimage persuades the Red-cross Knight to doubt the loyalty of his chaste and fair mistress, and of all the miseries which each suffered from the divorce; and truly and joyfully did he prophesy that a day would come, when the one should be purged from the effects of his adulterous alliances, the other delivered from all her persecutions, and when their bridal should be celebrated amidst the rejoicings of earth and heaven.

But there is a third element implied in these two, which must, I conceive, be formally and clearly brought out, before they can be reconciled, or we can have a satisfactory idea of Baptism. This third element constitutes the system of Mr. Budd. Like both the other parties, he and his followers are exclusive. They speak disparagingly and contemptuously of the High Churchmen, as men ignorant of the Gospel, and enemies of the truth, doing more injury, I think, to their own

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fication. The conscientious not less tormented, because at warrant, or what power in this justification. And if ffects, we return to the prinI have shown already, that en separated from its twin grown with a fungus, which nd gradually destroying it. cellent and delightful poet of orth the causes and conseration, in his history of the age persuades the Red-cross e loyalty of his chaste and all the miseries which each orce; and truly and joyfully at a day would come, when purged from the effects of aces, the other delivered from and when their bridal should st the rejoicings of earth and

third element implied in these I conceive, be formally and , before they can be reconciled, a satisfactory idea of Baptism. t constitutes the system of Mr. h the other parties, he and his sive. They speak disparagingly sly of the High Churchmen, as the Gospel, and enemies of the e injury, I think, to their own