to cherish the hope that the revival of the true principles of the English Church-its principles of order, reverence, and truthis a friendly approximation to its own corruptions, because some few minds, of neither age nor weight, have rashly and wrongly spoken of union, in language which the Church of England would little tolerate, and one or two others, never nurtured in her principles, have, avowedly in the spirit of dissent, forsaken her communion. What the Church generally would think of such a meditated union, unless preceded by a thorough retractation of Romish errors, cannot be expressed better than in the words of Jackson: 1 England, for that blind and slavish obedience which in respect of other nations she did perform unto the see of Rome, was by Italians and other foreigners not unaptly termed the "Pope's ass." Howbeit the brutish ignorance of our forefathers in the mysteries of their salvation did make that measure of obedience to the Romish Church partly excusable in them, which in us (to whom the gospel hath long time shined) would be altogether damnable. But it would be ignorance more than brutish, ignorance so far from excusing other sins, that itself would be a sin inexcusable, if we should hope or presume that the Romish yoke would not be made ten times heavier unto us than it was upon our forefathers, if God in his just judgment should strengthen the enemies of our peace to lay it again upon this island's neck. For the Church of Rome, since our forefathers' departure from her, hath multiplied her doctrines of devils, and mingled her cup with such abominations as would make the taste of it to such as have been accustomed to the sincere milk of the gospel altogether deadly; and yet hope there is none that we should not be urged to drink more deep of it than our forefathers were, if this cruel stepmother should once recover her pretended title of dominion over us. No choice would be left, but either torture of conscience or torment of body: we must make account to sit down with loss either of present possessions, or of our hopes of inheritance in the world to come.' And if, looking to the acts of our governors, whether in the State or in the Church-whether as encouraging Popery directly, by supporting its priests, or indirectly, by encouraging dissent-we are inclined, in the pride and presumption of our hearts, to say, Had we been, or were we in the place of authority or command, the necessity of this miserable choice had ere this time been removed, or should quietly be prevented,' the same great man will answer in words with which we will conclude; speaking, as we have wished to speak throughout-not as of ourselves, but rather to show how others have spoken before, whose voice may come to us from the grave with all the authority of departed 1 Book xii. c. v. s. 13. goodness, goodness, and tell us of peace and order, of humility and mutual love. 'If I should here take upon me so far to apologise for higher powers, as not to attribute a great part of the misery which hath lately befallen this land, and yet hangs over it, unto their errors or oversight, I should undergo the censure (without apology or appeal) of a parasite or timeserver. As I will not therefore speak anything against higher powers, so neither will I at this time speak for them. Only give me leave to tell you, that God in his providence doth never suffer higher powers to be at any gross default, of negligence, oversight, or wilfulness, but for the like gross defaults in those that are subject and should be obedient to them. If the eyes of state be at any time weak or dim, it is a certain sign that the whole body is either feeble or much distempered. The best advice that I can give unto you is, that every one of us, so oft as we shall, though but in heart or secret thought, repine or murmur at the negligence, oversight, or wilfulness of higher powers, would presently and peremptorily inflict this penance upon himself, to multiply his sorrow for his own sins past; to multiply his prayers and alms' deeds, with all other practices of piety, that so we may at all these our public meetings lift up pure hearts and hands unto the Father of Spirits, and God of all power and wisdom, that he would so enlighten the eyes and head of our State that they may find out the special sins which have procured his wrath against this land, and so inspire their hearts with resolution and constant courage that they may crush this serpent's brood wheresoever it nestles.'' POSTSCRIPT.-As the quotations have necessarily been made without reference to the order of the writers, it may not be uninteresting to subjoin the following tolerably accurate table of their dates and titles: 1522 1570 Bishop of Salisbury. 1603 Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of Canter 1544 1610 Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canter bury. 1616 Bishop of Worcester and Winchester. 1544 1600 Thomas Bilson. 155 1555 1626 Bishop of Chichester, Ely, and Winchester. 1560 1561 1629 1561 1616 Dean of Gloucester. 1564 1659 Bishop of Chester, Lichfield and Coventry, and Durham. 156 1631 Bishop of Rochester, and Ely. 1559 1628 Bishop of Llandaff, and Chichester. 1621 Archdeacon of Norfolk. 1566 Born Died . 1573 1644 Bishop of St. David's, Bath and Wells, London, and Archbishop of Canterbury. 1574 1656 Bishop of Exeter, and Norwich. 1578 1641 Bishop of Chichester, and Norwich. 1579 1640 President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Dean of Peterborough. 1579 1636 1580 1655 Bishop of Meath and Archbishop of Armagh. Richard Mountagu 1587 1662 Bishop of Lincoln, 1593 1663 Bishop of Derry and Archbishop of Armagh. 1594 1672 Bishop of Durham. . 1597 1672 . 1599 1672 Bishop of Gloucester. 1600 1662 Prebendary of Westminster, and Chaplain to King Charles I. 160-1672 . 1626 1660 Canon of Christ Church. 1693 Archbishop of Canterbury. 1707 Bishop of Chichester, and Ely. 1605 1616 1677 Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. 1630 1631 1636 . 1637 1641 1704 Bishop of St. Asaph. 1710 Bishop of Bath and Wells. 1711 Camden Professor of Ancient History in the Uni 1642 1715 Dean of Worcester. versity of Oxford. 164 1722 · 1653 1695 1656 1715 1663 1755 Bishop of Sodor and Man. 1667 1743 INDEX TO THE SIXTY-NINTH VOLUME OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. A. ADAMS, JOHN, Letters of, addressed to his to America, in personal feeling, the most aris- Arundines Cami, 440. See Drury. VOL. LXIX. NO. CXXXVIII. Canadian Boundary Question, 271. See Charles VII. of France, 291. See Joan Châteaubriand, M., remarks on the lo- Church of England, the, 471-its functions theologians to the highest respect, 474- -- of the question in 1774, and effect of prominent speakers, 192-patronage D. Dampier, Bishop, specimen of his Latin Divines, English, of the Seventeenth Cen- Domremy, birth-place of Joan of Arc, |