invite the concurrence of high-churchmen,' is, that we should not trouble our minds with the ultimate result; but perform our immediate duties, under the full conviction that, in proportion as we do so, the ultimate result must be such as God in His Wisdom desires. The discussion of the Lutheran doctrine of Justification became necessary, not only from the accidental circumstance, that I had used such strong language on the subject in the British Critic; but much more, because that doctrine formally denies the truth, which seems to me the key to all moral and religious knowledge, and which accordingly I lately mentioned as the leading idea of the present work; the truth, namely, that careful moral discipline is the necessary foundation, whereon alone Christian faith can be reared. I am well aware that there are several passages in the following pages, which admit of being extracted and circulated with great promise of success: but I would beg to urge on the attention of those who might be inclined to such a course, that all who circulate extracts from a work, incur the responsibility of implying, that such extracts give a fair and just idea of its general contents. I here then enter my protest, that no series of extracts will, in my opinion, convey this fair and just idea, if they do not include such passages as that in p. 81, beginning, And I will say plainly,'-in p. 23, beginning, 'to all these I would add,' in p. 459, beginning, 'Such religious practices.' Those who may read the work, will see that these are no more than samples of similar expressions in every part of it. A friend who has seen the sheets thinks that there may be a misapprehension of my meaning in pp. 288-9. I have more fully expressed what I there intended, in pp. 576-582. In conclusion I most earnestly desire the reader to believe and remember, that the feeling expressed at the outset, (pp. 5-8,) was present to my mind in every sentence that I have written from first to last. Balliol College, Oxford, June 6, 1844. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Sect. 5. Ideal of a Christian Church in her relations to Sect. 8. Ideal of a Christian Church in her intellectual duties Sect. 9. Ideal of a Christian Church in her political duties IS IT UNDUTIFUL TO THE ENGLISH CHURCH TO AIM Sect. 1. Has the tone of the British Critic latterly been dis- loyal to our Church? Sect. 4. Consideration of the dilemma proposed by Mr. Sect. 5. Has the tone of the British Critic shewn absence of Sect. 6. On what account is the Church of Rome to be considered our fitting model? . Sect. 7. In what manner may loyalty to our Church be dis- played by those who deplore its corruptions? Sect. 1 What is meant by the early centuries?' ON THE LUTHERAN DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION. Sect. 1. Bishop O'Brien's views on the matter stated and Sect. 2. Statement of the two questions which it is necessary Sect. 4. Hypothetical effect of the Lutheran principle, if it Sect. 5. Practical effect of the Lutheran principle as actually Sect. 6. Statement of the vitally fundamental truth which Sect. 3. Absence of all system of moral discipline for the Sect. 4. Our Church's total neglect of her duties as guardian Sect. 6. Powerlessness of our Church to perform the other |