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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: Reasons for joining the Norfolk & Norwich Protestant Association - - -Author: William Hull - - - -Release Date: September 27, 2020 [eBook #63314] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REASONS FOR JOINING THE NORFOLK & -NORWICH PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION*** - - -Transcribed from the 1840 John Stacy edition by David Price. - - - - - - REASONS FOR JOINING - THE - NORFOLK & NORWICH - PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION - - - IN - - A LETTER - - TO A CLERICAL FRIEND. - - * * * * * - - BY THE REV. WILLIAM HULL, - MINISTER OF ST. GREGORY’S. NORWICH. - - * * * * * - - NORWICH: - PRINTED BY JOHN STACY, OLD HAYMARKET. - - * * * * * - - MDCCCXL. - - - - -A LETTER, -&c. - - -MY DEAR SIR, - -You have not stated the nature or the grounds of those _scruples_ which -prevent your immediate adhesion to our recently-formed association;—nor -will I attempt to conjecture what they may be; especially since you avow -your cordial approbation of every well-timed effort in defence of our -Protestant faith and liberties against the malignant aggressions of -Popery. I am not able to imagine any substantial objection on the part -of a truly Protestant mind. - -Believing, as I firmly do believe, that our National Church is founded on -truth, and that the _Protestant ascendancy_ involves the temporal and -spiritual welfare of the people of these realms,—believing also that the -agents and emissaries of Popery have, for a series of years, been -actively employed in embroiling the affairs of this kingdom, with an -ultimate view to the restoration of the popish priesthood, together with -their dark superstitions and inhuman despotism,—believing that new and -unwonted energies must be called into action, in defence of our national -religion, or that, by secret undermining and open assault, “our holy and -beautiful house where our fathers worshipped” will soon be levelled with -the dust, “and all our pleasant things laid waste,”—I hail the formation -of the Protestant Association as a propitious event, and deliberately, -from the religious conviction that I am in the path of duty, enrol my -name as a member. - -In stating thus freely my own forcible impressions, I disclaim any -intention of impugning the motives of those who are not, equally with -myself, convinced of the expediency or utility of this association. -Whatever may be the ground of _your_ hesitation, I have entire confidence -in the purity and integrity of your principles. - -Nevertheless, allow me to say, with deference, that your indecision, in -this case, does not for a moment cause me to waver in my own convictions, -since I cannot but suspect that your doubts originate in an imperfect -conception of the perils to which our religion and our country are -exposed. Were these dangers of less appalling magnitude, I also should -have strong scruples against this or any similar association. They are -justifiable on no other ground than that of absolute necessity. They -bring with them many incidental evils.—They lead into collision adverse -parties, and produce impassioned controversies; they create evils which -no man can be right in abetting, even indirectly, but with a view to ward -off others which are more injurious to the public welfare. Besides -which, no man of feeling would rashly hazard the obloquy which will be -cast upon him by his opponents in this age of low-minded invective and -scurrilous defamation. Nor is it a small evil to lose the favourable -regards of upright and conscientious persons who take an opposite view of -the exigencies and the duties of the times. For myself, I have no sickly -ambition for this species of martyrdom. I sacrifice with painful -reluctance the esteem of the wise and the good, from whom it is my -misfortune, at any time, to be separated by conflicting opinions and -irreconcileable interests. But there are occasions which call for higher -duties than those of conciliation or friendship,—when private affections -must be merged in a holy patriotism, and when the strength of our -principles must be proved, not by the extinction of our finer -sensibilities,—God forbid!—but by their yielding, with whatever -bitterness of grief, to a commanding sense of DUTY. I am strongly -impressed with the conviction, that such an occasion presents itself in -“this day of _trouble_, and of _rebuke_, and of _blasphemy_.” - -Far from having my own apprehensions allayed by the numbers of those who -are insensible to the pressure of great and imminent danger, my fears are -awakened by nothing so much as by that very consideration; by no other -fact am I so deeply convinced of the extreme necessity of supporting the -Protestant Association, as one means, among others, of diffusing -information, and thus arousing in our countrymen a spirit of determined -resistance to Popery, corresponding with the power and the artifice of -that unrelenting adversary. - -The policy of the Papists has ever been, to the last degree, subtle, -profound, and unscrupulous,—varying with the changeful phases of society, -and adapting itself with fiend-like sagacity to the peculiar character of -individuals and of nations. But never did that policy show itself more -triumphantly than in the late rapid march of Popery towards a paramount -dominion in this kingdom; and in the skill, the cunning, the profound -strategy by which it has covered its progress, lulling into false -security the people of this betrayed and devoted country. - -I lay comparatively little stress on the number of converts openly -professing themselves to be proselytes to Popery: the report may be -exaggerated or it may not. I am not startled, as some are, by the -increase of popish chapels, monasteries, and colleges. I fear nothing -from the open teachers of popish doctrine, nor would I enter into a -_fiddle faddle_ controversy with a Jesuitical priesthood, who are not -bound by the laws of honourable warfare, and who, when defeated in -argument, always take refuge in their insolent assumption of -_infallibility_. The naked dogmas of Popery carry with them their own -refutation. They originated in the dark ages of barbarian ignorance and -public confusion, when the Roman empire had been swept by the northern -hordes, and savage warfare left no leisure, no disposition, to cultivate -those departments of knowledge which expand and invigorate the human -mind. Popery can never make converts in an enlightened nation like -England, but from among the most feeble in intellect or sordid in -character, the uninstructed vulgar, nervous women, or intellectual -profligates. True, she has advocates both subtle and learned; but they -are men who were cradled in her errors, and whose early discipline and -youthful associations—designed for the suppression of the manly mind—have -combined, with the interested motives of after-life, to fix them in her -faith. I give no credit to the more notorious of popish agitators for -sincerity in their _religious_ attachment to the cause they serve. -Popery is their stepping-stone to distinction and power. They laugh in -their sleeve at that lucrative fable while they derive power, as -political incendiaries, from the distresses and _superstitions_ of an -abject people. - -But while naked Popery is simply despicable for its absurdities or -detestable for its intolerance, I fear every thing from the unwearied and -versatile genius of _Romish policy_, which, without having proselyted to -the popish faith Protestant England, has contrived, by a series of -manœuvres, so to dislocate the frame of British society, that instead of -combining to crush, as they might easily do, the common foe, Protestant -is arrayed against Protestant, while the only party really to be dreaded -by all, is looked upon without suspicion and without fear. If the -present course of events is suffered to proceed,—while one class of -Protestants is tamely looking on, and another section is actively and -zealously employed in seconding the designs of the papacy,—I see no -impossibility that is to prevent the entire power of the State from -falling, at no distant period, into the hands of the popish faction. And -what use they will make of that power is not a matter of difficult -conjecture. History is _not_ “an old almanack,” unless to fools and -desperadoes; and history denounces papal intolerance in characters of -horror and of blood. - -Allow me to repeat it,—for this is the very gist of the argument,—from -naked and avowed Popery little was to be feared; but from Popery carrying -on its wily projects through the means of _Protestant agency_, or, under -Protestant colours, conducting a piratical warfare, every thing is to be -dreaded. And this is exactly the way in which we are now assailed. - -If you look to the STATE, you behold the ministers of a Protestant Queen, -who are sworn to uphold the Protestant religion, bound hand and foot by -popish demagogues and traitorous agitators, and impotent to carry any -great measure against the assent of their masters, who can on any day -effect their dismissal from office. Their policy is entirely popish. -The Privy Council is thrown open to popish intrigue; the army is largely -recruited from the popish peasantry of Ireland; popish bishops are -appointed and salaried by government in the colonies; the popish faction -holds the balance of parties in the Commons house of Parliament. - -The aspect of the CHURCH is scarcely less alarming. The “Oxford Tracts” -are said to represent the sentiments of a considerable number of our -devout clergy and laity. Of these very remarkable productions, enforcing -the practices of a superstitious devotion, and denouncing, with a -papistical jealousy of free enquiry, every manly exercise of the human -mind, when religion is the subject of investigation, it is sufficient to -say that they have been read with grief and astonishment by many of the -most sound divines of the Anglican Church, and hailed by papists with a -sneer of triumph. For the principles of the Protestant faith, they are -by far - - “Too ceremonious and traditional.” - -And, if the spirit of servile superstition which some of these tracts -breathe,—if the gloomy intolerance they sanction,—can be shown to -harmonize with the doctrines and usages of our Church, _dissent_ needs no -better vindication. Happily these noxious principles are the growth of -another soil; but they who embrace them are not far from the worst dogmas -of Popery. They are already in the vestibule—a few more steps will carry -them to the altar of that desecrated temple. It has been suggested, and -the suggestion is not at variance with Christian courtesy and candour, -that these Tracts have originated in a Jesuitical conspiracy to pollute -the stream of orthodox truth at the fountain head. Looking only at the -_internal_ evidence, the suspicion is fully justified. At any rate, they -prepare the way in a manner most satisfactory to the Papists, for a close -alliance with the apostate church, whose spirit and whose errors they so -nearly resemble. They are indefensible as the productions of Protestant -divines. - -Perhaps you will pronounce this opinion arrogant and harsh, considering -who are the writers. But in a case such as the present the public have a -right _to judge the work itself_, _independently of the __writers_, of -whose individual characters few readers can be supposed to know any -thing. I judge as one of the public,—I look at the “Tracts” apart from -their authors, and my conviction is, that no personal worth, no amiable -qualities, no piety, no erudition can vindicate the estimable authors of -these “Tracts” from having done, with whatever purity of intention, great -injury to the Protestant cause. Here is Popery, indirectly at least, -promoted by the professors of a university, whose name has hitherto been -regarded as the symbol of pure orthodoxy. The times are fearful when the -whisper goes forth, even among the most devoted friends of the -church—“_Popery at Oxford_!” From another section of churchmen, scarcely -less danger is to be apprehended: they are smoothing the way for popish -ascendancy. I mean those whose _ultra-liberalism_ embraces every -interest but that of their own communion—whose latitudinarian candour -regards with complacency every erroneous form of doctrine or worship, as -if, all that we tolerate we were bound in duty to approve,—who look with -special favour on every deviation from the sound orthodoxy of the -church,—who hail _every irregularity_ as a commendable exercise of -freedom,—and who reserve their censures and their frowns for those who -conscientiously adhere to “_the good old way_.” By this anomalous order -of churchmen—the growth of modern days—all the assailants of the sacred -cause are held in honour for their presumed freedom from prejudice,—all -its defenders are condemned as mercenaries or bigots. Of this -description of persons, it may be presumed, many are prepared to sit -down, quite at ease, under the _mild_ sovereignty of the papacy. Their -special predilection for that _persecuted_ race of patriots and -Christians, who are agitating for an Italian despot and the Holy -Inquisition, is only preparatory to their own sworn allegiance to Rome, -the moment that haughty power obtains dominion and can command -submission. They are waiting for the flood-tide. To say the least, the -men whose liberalism can rejoice in Popery, can have no motives for -becoming martyrs to Protestant truth and liberty. - -And now let us look at THE COUNTRY AT LARGE. Judging from the tone of -our popular literature, and from the spirit of the public press, which -can only subsist by responding to the sentiments of the day, I cannot but -think that infidelity and profligacy abound to an alarming extent among -the reading classes. The Protestant church, it is plain, can have no -hold on the disciples of Voltaire, of Hume, of Gibbon, of Paine, of -Byron. She will never compromise her pure morality. In the bosom of the -Mother of Harlots they may revel with impunity: _confession_, and -_absolution_, and _extreme unction_, will reconcile them to her -ascendancy. Among the paradoxes of the human mind, none is more common -than the junction of profane scepticism with credulous superstition,—the -impious reviler of the Bible making his last peace with heaven by taking -his _viaticum_ from a popish priest. Popery is the religion for all men -who would indulge the hope of heaven, after doing their utmost to convert -the present world into a hell of impiety and crime. Already they are in -political alliance with the man of sin. - -But there are others of less discreditable character than these, from -whom the Protestant cause derives no aid in this day of trial. I mean -that large class of easy, worthy, unsuspecting persons who have imbibed -unguardedly the sentiments of modern liberalism, without its malignity, -and in ignorance of its designs. They see Popery only in the mild and -subdued form which it puts on while restrained by the usages and the laws -of a Protestant community. They find nothing in their popish neighbours -but what is humane and social, and, perhaps, intelligent, honourable, and -devout; and, reasoning from what they see and hear themselves, they give -credit to the idle tale that POPERY is REGENERATED,—that the lion is -become a lamb, and the serpent a dove,—and that, under the future reign -of the Papacy, no longer perfidious, intolerant, sanguinary, no materials -will be supplied for another “Book of Martyrs”—let it therefore take its -unmolested course! - -Add to these, many persons of aristocratic rank and fortune, whose -principles are wavering, and who, on supposition that the Church of -England must fall a prey to the motley gang of modern revolutionists, are -prepared rather to side with Popery, which is essentially aristocratical -and monarchical, than with Protestant dissent, which is plebeian, -levelling and democratical. They know that the pretended liberalism of -Popery means nothing more than that “_she stoops to conquer_;” and they -will prefer her custody of their titles and estates, to that of a -national convention of chartists or roundheads. - -And now, my dear Sir, if this is not a mistaken view of things, we are -led to an appalling conclusion. If the popish faction, ever vigilant -while others sleep, should succeed, by a _coup d’état_, in grasping the -power of the Executive government, they have so stealthily and -successfully prepared for the event, that a large mass of the professedly -Protestant community would hail their accession to power; other important -bodies would be so far neutralized as to offer no resistance; while the -portion of our church and nation who remain “faithful among the -faithless” will have to maintain a conflict for truth and righteousness, -under circumstances of fearful inequality. I need not suggest what the -power of the state _can do_, when wielded by men of unscrupulous -principles, and devoted to their cause with the zeal of a morbid -superstition. - -I do not say that this catastrophe is inevitable; but it is not -impossible. The mine is prepared although it may not be sprung: but if -the match should be applied, the explosion will be far more tremendous, -and the desolation more complete, than even the “Gunpowder Treason” would -have caused, if Providence had not detected that most foul conspiracy. -The authors of that crime would have fallen, at once, victims to popular -indignation; but the conspirators of the present day will have secured -themselves from instant destruction by previously tampering with the -public mind, and corrupting its principles. They have already carried -Popish objects by Protestant agents; and when the real combat is at -length to be fought, _pro aris et focis_, the dupes of their insidious -policy will find themselves unarmed or in confusion on the field of -battle. - -We may smile at popish miracles—the chapel at Loretto—the blood of St. -Januarius—the healing art of the Abbé Paris—and all the low trumpery by -which the pretended vicar of Jesus Christ stoops to deceive and destroy: -but here is a master-stroke of policy, all but really miraculous, -displaying not less of satanic skill than malice, and at sight of which -the stoutest of British hearts may for a moment quail. The events of -these times will supply our posterity with the most humiliating page in -the history of their country—Great Britain, invincible in arms, -disorganized and convulsed by the infernal arts of the Jesuits! - -These dangers must be met by extraordinary measures of defence. If the -government did its duty, not a Jesuitical institute would be suffered to -pollute the land: these agents and subjects of a foreign power would not -be allowed to tamper with the peace and the liberties of England. But, -deserted by the government, itself enslaved by an ignoble faction, and -powerful only for mischief, we must look to our own resources, and, among -others, to the _Protestant Association_. I see nothing in its -constitution or principles to justify the fear, that it may not hopefully -look for the blessing of Almighty God upon its exertions. It has not -been instituted by a section or party in the church. It overlooks minor -distinctions, and enrols among its members persons of every shade of -sentiment or opinion, who are willing to make a common cause on behalf of -our venerable church and our holy religion. The moment it is made the -instrument of party, let it fall! The name of the Noble Lord who is its -president, is a pledge that its objects are truly British; and the clergy -and laity who are its members, can have _united_ for no purposes less -holy than the preservation of that sacred light which Popery had -extinguished—which the reformers re-kindled—and which, by God’s grace, -shall never again be put out in England. - -In looking at the aspect of the times, I am not sanguine in my hopes, nor -do I yield to despondency. It is ours to do our duty, and leave the -consequences with the Great Arbiter of human destinies. If we are -disappointed in our efforts to save our country, we shall have the -consolation of having made a stand under circumstances which required -some degree of moral courage, and a lively faith in the God of Truth, -whose servants we are, and in whose cause it will be no dishonour to -fall. - -In the mean time, it is a reflection not to be evaded, however painful to -indulge, that great national guilt could alone have reduced us to the -embarrassments and perplexities of these times—times of degeneracy so -rapid and infatuation so blind, that to this tormented kingdom may be -applied the fearful description of the historian of the Roman empire:— - - “Labente deinde paullatim disciplinâ, velut desidentes primo mores - sequatur animo; deinde ut magis magisque lapsi sint; tum ire cœperint - præcipites:—donec ad hæc tempora, quibus _nec vitia nostra_, _nec - remedia pati possumus_, perventum est.” - -And now, my dear sir, I have acted upon my own convictions of duty in -thus plainly stating my motives for upholding the Protestant Association: -judge them as severely as you please. They have at least this claim to -calm consideration: they are the reasons of an individual whose personal -interests and prospects would have dictated another course of action, but -who deems it his greatest happiness to have his fortunes blended, “for -better or for worse,” with that hallowed cause in which Latimer and -Ridley and Hooper and Cranmer died. - - Yours faithfully, - - WILLIAM HULL. - -_Eaton_, _Dec._ 10, 1839. - - * * * * * - - THE END. - - * * * * * - - NORWICH: -Printed by John Stacy, Gentlemen’s - Walk, Old Haymarket. - - - - -***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REASONS FOR JOINING THE NORFOLK & -NORWICH PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION*** - - -******* This file should be named 63314-0.txt or 63314-0.zip ******* - - -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: -http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/6/3/3/1/63314 - - -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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