never do for our Church, and ought to bring every child of the English Ecclesiastical Establishment to our way of thinking. The Pope says to Augustine :

We grant you the use of the pallium Ordain twelve bishops, who shall be subject to your jurisdiction, so that the Bishop of London shall, for the future, be always consecrated by his own synod, and that he receive the honour of the pallium from this holy and apostolical see, which I, by the grace of God,

now serve.

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23 Would it not be fatal to the very life of our Church that the Bishop of London should receive his highest

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dignity from the see of Rome, and from the Pope? Moreover, from the time of Augustine till that of Henry VIII., no bishop ever ruled a diocese in England without taking an oath of allegiance to the Pope as Supreme Head of the Church on earth, and receiving from the Pope a formal Bull of his consecration; so it would be impossible to argue fairly that the Church founded by Augustine was ever independent of Rome in ecclesiastical affairs.

The division of the archiepiscopal sees, again, was entirely arranged at the Pope's bidding and under his jurisdiction, and it is absolutely necessary for us to prove that we have revived the ancient British sees, for if we were to maintain the continuity. of the jurisdiction of the original sees,

we should be thrown back upon the jurisdiction of the Pope, which has been withdrawn. Having such an excellent case when leaning on the ancient British Bishops, it would be the height of folly to leave them and try to support ourselves on a pack of dirty Italians!

Let holy water be made and sprinkled in the said temples, let altars be erected and relics placed.24

24 All this again is weak ground! I am sorry to weary the reader, who must be longing to return to his dear British Bishops. We shall be with them again presently; but it is really

necessary that we should first extinguish the pretensions of Augustine to have been a member of the Church of England.

The holy Pope Gregory, among other things, caused masses to be celebrated in the churches of the apostles, Peter and Paul, over their bodies.25

25 Although in so doing I am anticipating the deaths of Augustine and his first companions, I place this passage here, in order to furnish yet further proof of the utter popishness of these men. It will simply never do to champion such a cause, in these days of Agnosticism, Romanism, and Methodism, although we may have

masses for the dead" in the private chapels of our sisterhood.

I am fully aware that we are at liberty to believe and to practise any Catholic teaching in private, or in our semi-private confraternities and societies; that it is the exclusive privilege of the Anglican to adopt whatever he may think proper, and that we may adapt Roman Catholic books to Anglican reading; but it is our solemn duty to avoid the danger of exposing ourselves to the taunts of our enemies, whether within the Church of England, or without it. Personally, however, I feel more friendly towards Romanists than towards dissenters, although the vile casuistry of the former makes one shudder.

We must pause here, for a moment,