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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of +the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at +www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + + + +Title: Is the Vicar of Brompton a Tractarian? + + +Author: Arthur Ellis + + + +Release Date: June 2, 2015 [eBook #49113] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IS THE VICAR OF BROMPTON A +TRACTARIAN?*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1855 Charles Westerton edition by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1><span class="GutSmall">IS THE</span><br /> +VICAR OF BROMPTON<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">A</span><br /> +TRACTARIAN?</h1> +<p style="text-align: center">A QUESTION FOR THE +PARISHIONERS.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY</span><br +/> +A LAYMAN.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<blockquote><p>“You call me a Tractarian, I am not so in +any sense.”—See the <i>Letter of Dr. Irons to the +Editor of the Record</i>.</p> +<p>“He that is first in his own cause seemeth just, but his +neighbour cometh and searcheth him”.—<i>Proverbs</i> +18 chap. 17 verse.</p> +</blockquote> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">LONDON:<br /> +CHARLES WESTERTON,<br /> +WESTERTON’S LIBRARY,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">20, ST. GEORGE’S PLACE, HYDE PARK +CORNER;</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">SEELEY’S, FLEET STREET.</span></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">1855.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Price Sixpence</i>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="pageii"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. ii</span><i>If any profits arise from the sale +of this little publication</i>, <i>they will be given to the +funds of the Chelsea</i>, <i>Brompton</i>, <i>and Belgrave +Dispensary</i>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<h2><a name="pageiii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +iii</span>PREFATORY REMARKS.</h2> +<p><span class="smcap">In</span> placing before my fellow +parishioners this publication, I think it necessary most +distinctly to disavow any personal hostility to the Vicar, as an +individual.</p> +<p>I feel it the more incumbent on me to say this, as my object +is not so much to prove the errors and unscriptural teaching of +the “Tractarians,” as to make it plain (by his own +words and actions) that Dr. Irons must be considered as +altogether identified with the “Tractarian” +party.</p> +<p>On a fitting occasion, however, I shall be ready (the Lord +enabling me) to shew, that the principles and practices of those +clergymen who have unhappily embraced “Tractarian” +error, are as contrary to God’s blessed Word as they are to +the Articles of our Church; and that these principles (if +honestly carried out) as necessarily lead to Rome, as a humble +and prayerful study of the Bible, will assuredly lead the sincere +enquirer into the light and liberty of Gospel truth.</p> +<p>It is the policy of the more wily amongst the +“Tractarians” to keep aloof in some measure from the +“Ultras” of their party, and to follow the Jesuitical +advice given from a certain quarter, not to be over hasty in +bringing in Anglican forms and observances amongst their +congregations, but to win them over by little and little.</p> +<p>This policy will account for much that is going on in our +parish, where we have a Vicar who <i>says</i> that he is not a +Tractarian “in any sense.”</p> +<p>I feel assured that the parishioners of Brompton are not +prepared for that open and undisguised +“Tractarianism” practised in some of our churches; +but when I bear in mind the fact, that during the past year two +or three of the most noted amongst the “Tractarian” +Clergy have been preaching in the Parish Church, it shews the +necessity of being on our guard to resist the insidious attempts +<a name="pageiv"></a><span class="pagenum">p. iv</span>made from +within, as well as the endeavours now making from without, to +bring us into the bondage of “Tractarianism,” or into +the more open and unadulterated principles and practices of +Romanism. It may be well for us to remember that at the +recent opening of the Popish Institution (the Oratory) in our +Parish, there were reported as being present twelve Romish +priests or laymen, who until the last few years were clergymen of +the Established Church, and belonging to the +“Tractarian” party.</p> +<p>In making use of the word “Tractarian” a necessity +has been laid upon me, for though I deprecate the use of party +names, I know of no other term (not even Puseyism) that would so +distinctly point out the principles which have led to such +melancholy results to the Church of England.</p> +<p>We must not however suppose these principles are in themselves +<i>new</i>; they are as old as the earliest ages of +Christianity. The Galatian Converts were seduced from the +simplicity of the Gospel by them; and coming down to the days of +Charles the First, our own Church has great cause to lament the +progress they made at that unhappy period.</p> +<p>I am the more solicitous that this should not be lost sight +of, as Dr. Irons says his own views “were not obtained from +the Oxford Tracts.” This is very possible, but has +nothing to do with the fact, that the Reverend Doctor holds +substantially all the errors of the +“Tractarians.”</p> +<p>That the principles of sound Protestanism still prevailing in +this neighbourhood, combined with the faithful preaching of the +gospel in many of our churches and chapels, may by God’s +blessing be an effectual bulwark against the covert, as well as +against the open, enemies of our time-honoured Church, is my +earnest prayer.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">A. E.</p> +<p>19, <i>Alfred Place West</i>, <i>Brompton</i>,<br /> + 11<i>th</i> +<i>December</i>, 1854.</p> +<h2><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 5</span>IS THE +VICAR OF BROMPTON<br /> +A TRACTARIAN?</h2> +<p><span class="smcap">In</span> a letter bearing the signature +of the Reverend Dr. Irons, which appeared some time ago in the +“Record,” there is a distinct denial on the part of +the Reverend Doctor as to his being a +“Tractarian.”</p> +<p>In making a few comments upon the letter alluded to, I feel +that I am not overstepping my duty as a parishioner of Brompton, +and much more my duty as a professed lover of Scriptural truth, +in opposition to Romish and Romanizing error.</p> +<p>Dr. Irons says, in the letter alluded to, “I am not a +Tractarian in any sense,” and adds, “that he has +always differed from the teaching of some of the Oxford +Tracts.”</p> +<p>If the English language is to be understood in its plain +grammatical sense, <i>some</i> refers to a few, or the smaller +portion, and, consequently, Doctor Irons <i>does not</i> differ +from the teaching of the Tracts, generally.</p> +<p>I have never met a “Tractarian” who did not +profess to be at issue with one or more of the ninety Tracts; and +I have no doubt but Dr. Pusey himself would unhesitatingly +affirm, that there was teaching in <i>some</i> of them from which +even he dissented.</p> +<p>Could we have asked the reverend gentlemen who have lately +apostatized to Rome from one of the churches at Stoke Newington, +I can easily imagine that they too would have differed from the +teaching of <i>some</i> of the Tracts, though their principles +and practices, before they finally left the Church of England, +were daily giving evidence how completely (as a whole) they were +identified with the party.</p> +<p>It must be borne in mind that from the time this +“Tractarian” blight came over our Church, it has been +<a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 6</span>the practice +of its clerical adherents to deny any affinity with Romish error, +and to beguile their congregations with the assurance, that the +holding of “Tractarian” principles was the best +safeguard to the Church of England.</p> +<p>Not only did their most talented men write and preach in this +strain, but the literary organs of the party still say so; and +when, from time to time, the more honest among them secede to +Rome, their friends attribute their apostacy to any cause but the +right one, sometimes laying the blame upon the evangelical party +for protesting against their unsound and unscriptural +teaching.</p> +<p>Dr. Irons, in the letter referred to, defends himself from the +charge of refusing to sign the Anti-Papal Petition in +1850:—the charge, however, is neither (as the Doctor calls +it) “practically unjust, or untrue.”</p> +<p>Dr. Irons <i>did</i> refuse to sign the Petition, and the +reason given at the time for this refusal was, <a +name="citation6"></a><a href="#footnote6" +class="citation">[6]</a>—that a “rider” was +added to it (by a vote at the public meeting); “that the +Romanizing principles and practices of a portion of the clergy +had encouraged the Pope to act as he had done.”</p> +<p>It is not here necessary to prove that the “rider” +enunciated a fact; it is sufficient to shew that Dr. Irons +refused to sign the Petition, and to state the reasons he gave +for that refusal; and then to leave it to the unbiased judgment +of his parishioners to decide between his actions, and the +paragraph in the letter, which says, “I am not a Tractarian +in any sense.”</p> +<p>Dr. Irons refers to the ‘<i>Morning Post</i>’ and +other papers for his sentiments as expressed on the occasion of +the meeting. I was present at the meeting, and paid some +attention to the speech of the Reverend Doctor.</p> +<p>I do not deny but there was indignation expressed against the +“aggression,” but this indignation went very little +beyond what might have been said, and what was actually said, by +sincere Romanists, ere the glorious reformation of the sixteenth +century had shone upon our country.</p> +<p>Our forefathers of that period felt the galling chain of <a +name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 7</span>ecclesiastical +and civil oppression laid upon them by the Papacy, but the light +of gospel truth had not penetrated their hearts, and, therefore, +in their opposition to Rome they made no protest against her +soul-destroying doctrines.</p> +<p>The speech of Dr. Irons certainly amounted to something more +than what took place in Scotland, where one of the Bishops of the +<i>Scotch</i> Episcopal Church signed a protest against the +aggression, “because it was contrary to Ecclesiastical +order that one bishop should intrude into the diocese of +another.”</p> +<p>In referring to the ‘<i>Morning Post</i>,’ as +giving the speech of Dr. Irons at the public meeting, it must be +remembered that the ‘<i>Post</i>’ was then (if not +now) an organ of the “Tractarians,” and that the +tactics of the party it represented were to hoodwink us, and +under cover of a zeal for “Church principles” to +disseminate Anti-Protestant views.</p> +<p>I respect the liberty of the Press, and would not willingly +give up its great advantages, but I bear in mind that it would be +about as preposterous to expect from the columns of a +“Tractarian” periodical any thing favourable to sound +Protestanism, as it would be to look for a true exposition of +constitutional principles in civil government from the pen of the +Russian Autocrat.</p> +<p>One of the most remarkable features in the Anti-Papal +demonstration in the autumn of 1850, was the part acted by a +portion of the “Tractarians.”</p> +<p>Sensible that their party were more than suspected of being +the origin of the “Aggression,” they were generally +very early in the field to hold meetings, and to display an +<i>apparent</i> opposition to Rome; but if we take the trouble to +look into their proceedings at these meetings, we shall find that +their principal aim was to get credit for zeal against Popery, +and thus to blind the people to their own Romish practices, and +prevent (as far as they could) anything like a real expression of +Protestant feeling on the occasion.</p> +<p>As to the fact that two of the most noted +“Tractarian” clergymen in London were lately invited +to preach in the Parish Church, Dr. Irons says, they were his +friends; “one of them a very old one;” but if the +Doctor is not a Tractarian “in any sense,” he might +have shewn hospitality <a name="page8"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 8</span>and kindness under his own roof, +rather than give these gentlemen the opportunity of propagating +the errors of their principles and party in the pulpit of the +Parish Church. More recently, a third well known +“Tractarian” Clergyman was advertised to preach in +Dr. Irons’ pulpit.</p> +<p>There is an old homely proverb, “Shew me the company a +man keeps, and I will tell you what sort of a man he +is.”</p> +<p>Having thus commented upon the communication of Dr. Irons in +the “Record,” I would place before my fellow +parishioners copies of some letters which passed between the +Reverend Doctor and myself several years ago. My object in +doing this is not to say harsh things against the individual, but +to demonstrate that the Doctor is by his own admission a +“Tractarian.”</p> +<p>I do not presume to sit in judgment on Dr. Irons, though I +should think more highly of his candour and consistency, if he +did not deny the holding of those opinions which I am constrained +to believe he does entertain.</p> +<p>I am no admirer of a certain bishop in the West of England, +but we must do him the justice to acknowledge that he is an +exception to many of his “Tractarian” brethren.</p> +<p>There is no faltering on his part as to what his principles +really are, and though we differ from him entirely, we recognize +that we have a plain-spoken Englishman to deal with, who would +feel it beneath his dignity to deny that he does not heartily +side with the “Tractarians,” and endeavour by every +means to advance their views and opinions.</p> +<p>Lamentable to the Church of England as are the proceedings of +this dignitary, we should not think the more highly of him were +he to assert that he is not a Tractarian “in any +sense.”</p> +<p>The four following letters passed between Dr. Irons and myself +soon after the public meeting relative to the Papal Aggression in +1850. <a name="citation8"></a><a href="#footnote8" +class="citation">[8]</a></p> +<p style="text-align: right"><a name="page9"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 9</span>“19, <i>Alfred Place West</i>, +<i>Brompton</i>,<br /> +“2<i>nd</i> <i>December</i>, 1850.</p> +<p>“<span class="smcap">Sir</span>,</p> +<p>“At the Meeting of the 15th November, one of the +speakers alluded to the fact, that of the many clergymen, who had +apostatized to Rome, all, or nearly all, were from the +‘Tractarian,’ or High Church party, whilst few or +none were from that section of the Church, usually known as the +Evangelical, or Low Church party. You replied (or remarked) +to the statement, ‘Six of one, and half-a-dozen of the +other.’</p> +<p>“It would not, sir, become me to attribute to you, the +Chairman of the Meeting, an intentional misrepresentation; but I +may be permitted respectfully to remark that your assertion is +entirely at variance with clear and well established facts.</p> +<p>“It is very possible that amongst the Perverts, some +three or four once belonged to the Evangelical party, but in +every case these clergymen had embraced High Church or Tractarian +principles, before they finally joined the Church of Rome.</p> +<p>“Apologizing for troubling you with this +communication.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">“I am, Sir,</p> +<p style="text-align: right">“Your very obedient +Servant,<br /> +(Signed) “ARTHUR ELLIS.</p> +<p>“The Rev. W. J. <span +class="smcap">Irons</span>.”</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: right">“<i>Brompton</i>,<br /> +“<i>December</i>, 3<i>rd</i>, 1850.</p> +<p>“<span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>,</p> +<p>“Your note needs no apology—I believe the facts of +these unhappy secessions to Rome, to be far more fatal to the +Evangelical party, than I at all implied. I am not able to +give you a list of the ascertainable and presentable names of +Converts, though I am anxious to get it. My belief is, that +a very large majority had received a very unsound religious +education among the Low Church people (and some among +Dissenters), and embraced Popery, in consequence of having no +thorough hold on the principles of their own Church.</p> +<p><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>“Whether in their progress towards Popery, they +travelled through our territory as travellers, and not as +dwellers, or natives, does not seem very important to me.</p> +<p>“I know that some have gone straight from a Dissenting +Chapel to Popery; one case in particular has been brought to my +notice; but I do not wish to cast stones at others, on account of +these things. I only said what I did, in consequence of the +accidental remark of the speaker, and if I annoyed you, I am +sorry for it.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">“Believe me,</p> +<p style="text-align: right">“Faithfully yours,<br /> +(Signed) “WILLIAM J. IRONS.</p> +<p>“To <span class="smcap">Arthur Ellis</span>, Esq., +R.N.</p> +<p>“P.S. Mr. Sibthorp was a very low Churchman, Mr. +Newman was brought up an Evangelical, and Mr. Pownall’s +son, and Mr. Capes. If I get a list I will send it to +you. Mr. Capes preached very strongly in my former +neighbourhood against High Churchmen, and I said at the time, it +is he that is in danger of Popery, and not I.”</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: right">“19, <i>Alfred Place +West</i>,<br /> +“12<i>th</i> <i>December</i>, 1850.</p> +<p>“<span class="smcap">Sir</span>,</p> +<p>“I have been favoured with your note of the 3rd instant, +to which I should have replied before this time, had I not waited +for the list mentioned in your postscript.</p> +<p>“As this list does not appear to be forthcoming, I am +the more confirmed in the conviction expressed in my former +communication, that your statement at the Meeting is altogether +at variance with clear and well established facts.</p> +<p>“Instead, however, of bringing forward proof as to the +correctness of your remark, you are pleased to take a step in +advance, and to express your belief, that a very large majority +of the clergymen, (not a mere ‘six of one and half-a-dozen +of the other,’) who have gone over to Rome, received their +religious education ‘among the Low Church +people.’</p> +<p>“I do not, sir, presume to question what you believe: <a +name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>all I ask +for, is something in the shape of satisfactory evidence, that +your belief has any better foundation to rest upon, than that of +Dr. Pusey, who believes that the Protestant Church of England, +and the Apostate Church of Rome, ‘are almost identical in +their views on the doctrines of original sin and +justification.’</p> +<p>“If your opinion as to the effect of Evangelical +teaching, had any foundation in fact, how comes it to pass, that +the Perverts to Rome, whether from the clergy or laity, are in +almost every case, from ‘Tractarian’ +congregations.</p> +<p>“I have not, sir, received a University education, nor +does it require the mathematical powers of a senior wrangler to +discover, that if your premises are correct, the friends and +apologists of Romish error would be found not in +‘Tractarian’ Churches, but in the congregations of +St. Saviour’s and Park Chapel, where from Sabbath to +Sabbath, the blessed truths of the Gospel are preached, in all +their Evangelical fulness.</p> +<p>“I may very well leave it to my Dissenting neighbours to +answer for themselves, if they feel inclined to do so; but I may +be permitted to remark, that if your belief has any foundation to +rest upon, the principles you imbibed at Oxford, may not, in the +opinion of your ‘Tractarian’ friends, be considered a +sufficient guard to counteract that Evangelical teaching, which I +believe it was your privilege to partake of in your earlier years +<a name="citation11"></a><a href="#footnote11" +class="citation">[11]</a> and that consequently (reasoning in +your own belief), your present position is not free from danger: +as you must be looked upon rather as a ‘traveller’ +pursuing your onward course to Rome, than as a +‘native’ or ‘dweller.’</p> +<p>“I beg leave to attach hereto the opinion of Cardinal +Wiseman, as expressed several years ago, ere +‘Tractarian’ buds had in so many instances opened out +into Romish flowers. The Cardinal does not say one word as +to his expectations from the Evangelical party; his hopes are +built on Oxford, and on those ‘to whom our Saints, our +Popes, are become very dear, and in whose eyes our rites, our +ceremonies, nay our very Rubrics are precious.’</p> +<p><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>“You are kind enough to say you are sorry if you +have annoyed me by your observation at the Meeting. I +assure you I was not annoyed; I certainly felt pain and sorrow, +similar to what I experienced when I read the statement of Dr. +Pusey before referred to.</p> +<p>“I believed there was no foundation for either of the +statements, and I thought I saw in both of them the fatal effects +of that teaching, and those principles which led the present +Romish Priest at Islington, to claim the right, whilst +officiating as a minister of the Protestant Church of England, +‘to hold all Romish doctrine, so long as he did not teach +it from the pulpit;’ and which led another individual of +the ‘Tractarian’ party to defend the lawfulness of +subscribing to the articles and formularies of our Church, in a +‘non-natural sense.’</p> +<p>“My paper reminds me I must draw this letter to a +conclusion, and in doing so, I earnestly pray, sir, that Our +Heavenly Father may enlighten your understanding, dispel from +your mind all error and prejudice, and lead you by the teaching +of His Holy Spirit, to retrace your steps from the perilous +position you now occupy, amidst the shifting sands of +‘Church Principles,’ until you find yourself in +safety in the impregnable fortress of Bible Truth, and of that +article of our church, which so truly says, ‘Holy Scripture +containeth all things necessary for salvation, so that whatsoever +is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be +required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of +Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary for +salvation.’</p> +<p style="text-align: center">“I am<br /> +“Reverend Sir,</p> +<p style="text-align: right">“Your obedient Servant,<br /> +(Signed) “ARTHUR ELLIS.</p> +<p>“The Rev. W. J. <span +class="smcap">Irons</span>.”</p> + +<div class="gapmediumline"> </div> +<p>The opinion of Cardinal Wiseman referred to in my letter.</p> +<blockquote><p>“It seems impossible to read the works of +the Oxford divines, and especially to follow them chronologically +without discovering a daily approach towards our Holy Church, +both in doctrine and in affectionate feeling. Our Saints, +our Popes, have become dear to them by little and little; our +rites and ceremonies, our offices, <a name="page13"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 13</span>nay, our very rubrics are precious in +their eyes, far alas, beyond what many of us consider them. +Our monastic institutions, our charitable and educational +provisions, have become more and more objects with them of +earnest study; and every thing in fine, that concerns our +religion, deeply interests their attention.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>See “Letter on Catholic Unity,” addressed to the +Earl of Shrewsbury.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: right">“<i>Brompton</i>,<br /> +“<i>December</i> 13<i>th</i>, 1850.</p> +<p>“<span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>,</p> +<p>“If you really wish to believe that all Converts to +Rome, or most of them, come from the ranks of ‘the +Tractarians’ I cannot help it. I can only assure you +it is contrary to all my experience. In every case which +has come under my notice for the last ten years, there is proof +of the truth of what I said in my former note; but I did not, and +do not, like to bring a railing accusation against my Evangelical +brethren, else I would, as you find, have said, that my +experience was quite against the assertion now commonly +made. I supposed, however, that other persons had had a +different experience from my own, and I charitably allowed +‘Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.’ For +myself I can only say, that though I should like to know well +enough how the case stands, I should attach no importance to the +fact, if the balance of advantage were a trifle on one side or +other; much less would I think of writing to you in an +uncourteous or uncharitable tone about it. The extract from +Wiseman which you kindly sent me, I easily understand. He, +Jesuit like, wishes to damage High Churchmen, because he knows +that ours is the only strong ground against Rome; <a +name="citation13"></a><a href="#footnote13" +class="citation">[13]</a> just as in the days of Queen Elizabeth, +Jesuits preached Calvinism as Evangelical Ministers and +Dissenters, on purpose to divide and destroy Churchmen and their +principles. Dr. Wiseman never abuses Low Churchmen. +But may I request, that as I have not time <a +name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>for letters +on such small points, you rather would, (if you desire it,) call +on me any morning you please, and in a Christian and gentle +spirit, converse on any important topic which you may desire to +discuss.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">“I am, faithfully yours,<br /> +(Signed) “WILLIAM. J. IRONS.</p> +<p>“To <span class="smcap">Arthur Ellis</span>, <span +class="smcap">Esq</span>., R.N.”</p> + +<div class="gapmediumline"> </div> +<p>In the foregoing Correspondence between Dr. <span +class="smcap">Irons</span> and myself it will be seen, that I +addressed him under the conviction that he was one with the +“Tractarian” party, and that his statement about +“six of one and half-a-dozen of the other,” was +offered as a kind of defence of his friends.</p> +<p>In the answers of Dr. <span class="smcap">Irons</span> to my +communications, it is quite evident, that he never thought of +denying his identity with the “Tractarian” party; the +tenor of his letters is not to shew that he is not a Tractarian +“in any sense,” but to defend +“Tractarianism” from the charge of being the primary +cause of the many secessions to Rome from amongst his clerical +brethren.</p> +<p>Compare the letters of the Rev. Doctor with his more recent +statement of not being a Tractarian “in any sense,” +and there can be no doubt as to what must be the verdict.</p> +<p>There are, however, some points in both the letters of Dr. +<span class="smcap">Irons</span> to which I would allude more +fully, and comment upon more at length.</p> +<p>The Rev. Doctor states that he is anxious to get a list of the +“ascertainable and presentable names of the +Converts.”</p> +<p>If such a list would have given so formidable an array of +Evangelical Churchmen and Dissenters, I can hardly suppose but +Dr. <span class="smcap">Irons</span> (giving him all credit for +not wishing to cast stones at others), would have procured it, +from the desire to shew me and other of his parishioners, that +the real cause of these perversions was in the “unsound +religious education received amongst the ‘Low Church People +and Dissenters,’” and that “Tractarian” +teaching and principles had nothing to do in the matter.</p> +<p>When Dr. <span class="smcap">Irons</span> can make good his +position by an “ascertainable and presentable list,” +or by any other evidence equally convincing, I feel assured, that +many who are now under the conviction that +“Tractarianism” is the Broad Road to Rome, will +acknowledge their error, and confess that they have done the +“Tractarian” party much injustice.</p> +<p><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>In the +second letter of Dr. <span class="smcap">Irons</span> I would +especially draw attention to what he says in reference to the +praise so lavishly bestowed upon the “Tractarian” +party by Cardinal Wiseman.</p> +<p>The question, be it remembered, is not as to the honesty of +the motives which led the Cardinal to bestow such eulogiums on +his Oxford friends.</p> +<p>It is a much more simple question and much more easy of +satisfactory proof.</p> +<p>Is the Cardinal’s opinion of “Tractarians” +warranted by facts?</p> +<p>Let the names of Wilberforce, Manning, Thynne, Haskell, +Allies, and a host of others, now Priests of the Church of Rome, +give the answer.</p> +<p>We must not lose sight of the fact in dealing with +“Tractarians,” that just in proportion as they have +received the commendation of Cardinal Wiseman and the Organs of +the Romanists; in like proportion, have all true Protestants been +energetic in the condemnation of their teaching and +principles.</p> +<p>Dr. <span class="smcap">Irons</span> says that Cardinal +Wiseman “never abuses Low Churchmen,” but he omits to +say (what is much more to the point), that the Cardinal never +<i>praises</i> them.</p> +<p>When Romanists shall praise Low Churchmen and Dissenters, we +may be assured that serious errors are creeping in amongst +them. If friends condemn, we may yet be right. But if +enemies bestow their praises upon us, there can be little doubt +but we are wrong.</p> +<p>I will not attempt to put my knowledge of Church History on a +par with that of Dr. <span class="smcap">Irons</span>. A +life spent on the watery element has precluded me from the +opportunity of being deeply versant on such subjects; but I have +always understood, that in the days of Queen Elizabeth, the +Protestant Ministers of the Church of England were, with few +exceptions, Calvinists: and the idea of a Jesuit pretending to be +a Calvinist and preaching to <i>Dissenters</i> in such a +character in Elizabeth’s reign, appears to me altogether an +imagination of the Reverend Doctor; and must have reference to a +subsequent period, when principles (the exact counterpart of +“Tractarian”), had crept into the Church and were +bidding fair to lead the nation back to Rome.</p> +<p>The Puritans of Elizabeth’s reign were not Dissenters, +<a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>they had +not then been driven out of the Church. If Elizabeth did +carry a high hand towards them, her conduct was merciful and +humane if put in contrast with the tyranny and oppression they +suffered at a later period, when the Monarchs of the Stuart line +were aided by the bigotry and persecuting principles of +Archbishop Laud and others, whose memories are held in such high +esteem by the “Tractarians” of the present day.</p> +<p>In endeavouring to ignore the evidence of Cardinal Wiseman in +favour of “Tractarianism,” Dr. <span +class="smcap">Irons</span> certainly has the example of high +ecclesiastical authority. In a correspondence lately +published between a Bishop of our Church (whose +“Tractarian” leanings are but too evident) and an +esteemed Clergyman; the Bishop takes nearly the same line of +argument (if such tortuous reasoning can be called argument), in +regard to “Tractarian” publications highly eulogized +by the literary organs of the Romanists.</p> +<p>The Bishop, however, omits to mention, that these +publications, so highly thought of by Papists, are altogether +condemned by every sound Protestant.</p> +<p>In bringing this little publication to a close, I find it has +run out to a length I did not look for when I took up my pen.</p> +<p>I would express a hope that in any thing I may have said of +individuals, I have not given way to unkind or acrimonious +expressions. It is foreign to my feelings to have done so; +and I would desire to remember “that the wrath of man +worketh not the righteousness of God.”</p> +<p>Far abler pens than mine have already shown forth the true +character of “Tractarianism,” and unmasked its +semi-popish principles and practices. If, in the object I +had in view (as alluded to at the commencement of my prefatory +remarks), I have said any thing to serve as a warning to my +Protestant friends and neighbours, and to lead them to be more in +earnest in contending for the faith “once delivered to the +saints,” I have an ample reward.</p> +<p>I now leave the question (Is the Vicar of Brompton a +Tractarian?) to the judgment of those who may take the trouble to +read this Pamphlet. I can truly say, I shall sincerely +rejoice to have it made plain to me that what Dr. <span +class="smcap">Irons</span> says of himself is a true picture, and +that he is not a Tractarian “in any sense.”</p> +<h2>FOOTNOTES.</h2> +<p><a name="footnote6"></a><a href="#citation6" +class="footnote">[6]</a> The official statement, with the +names of the (then) Churchwardens attached to it, says, +“that the Vicar has declined to be a party to the Memorial +in consequence of the words in italics being added.” +These words were the “Rider.”</p> +<p><a name="footnote8"></a><a href="#citation8" +class="footnote">[8]</a> I asked for, and obtained, the +sanction of Dr. <span class="smcap">Irons</span> to publish these +letters (if I thought it worth while,) soon after the +correspondence had taken place.</p> +<p><a name="footnote11"></a><a href="#citation11" +class="footnote">[11]</a> <span class="smcap">Dr. +Irons</span> is the son of a respected Dissenting Minister, who +was held in high esteem by many eminent Clergymen of the +Evangelical party.</p> +<p><a name="footnote13"></a><a href="#citation13" +class="footnote">[13]</a> “The nearer the candle the +safer the moth.” Such is Tractarian logic. I +respectfully borrow this apt illustration from the “Heir of +Montresor Abbey,” a work published by Nisbet & Co., and +written by the Protestant Authoress of “The Two +Paths.”</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IS THE VICAR OF BROMPTON A +TRACTARIAN?***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 49113-h.htm or 49113-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/9/1/1/49113 + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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