stretching throughout the ages that are to elapse between the first and the second Advent. "It has been nothing so much as this inconsiderate 'Bible alone' cry, that has given modern Popery so long a reprieve in the heart of Protestant countries: and it is now the very same zeal, without discretion, that opens a fair field for the spread of the doctrines of the Oxford Tracts. "So far as the usurpations of Rome may be in view, nothing can be clearer than the course to be pursued by Protestants. Such and such practices or opinions, and in which Popery consists, may be proved to be of such and such a date; they are therefore not Apostolic, they are not Catholic: they are not even ancient, any more than they are Scriptural; why then should we receive them? I am Catholic, not you,' may every Protestant say to every Romanist, and with as full an assurance as that with which the genuine Cambrian may say to the Fitzwilliams, the Walters, the Villiers, the Godfreys, 'I am British, not you ; my ancestors had turned this soil ages before you Normans had set a foot on the island.' Protestantism, as opposed to Popery, is a refusal to accept innovations bearing an ascertained date. "Or we might confine our protest against Popery within the pithy denunciations of the Romanist's own saint, Vincent of Lirius, and say with him, 'Annuntiare ergo aliquid Christianis Catholicis, præter id, quod acceperunt, nunquam lievit, nusquam licet, nunquam licebit: et anathematizare eos, qui annuntiant aliquid, præterquam quod semel acceptum est, nunquam non oportuit, nusquam non oportet, nunquam non oportebit." * Commonitorium, c. 14. LONDON: Printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson, & Fley, DOCTOR HOOKWELL; OR THE ANGLO-CATHOLIC FAMILY. "Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the CATHOLIC FAITH." Book of Common Prayer. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1842. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. Anecdote of a furious attack on Romanism and the Church of England. ·Arrival of important letters.— Great alarm of Emily.-Intelligence from the Italian convent of the death of Agnes Petre.-Lord Petre.- Lord Temple and Reginald's visit to Penscellwood. -Dr. Hookwell's letter on Christian union.-The man- Beauty of the way to Penscellwood.-Wordsworth VOL. III. b PAGE pedlars.-Met by Mrs. Burford.-Awful announcement concerning her Master.-Doctor Craine.-Sudden illness of Reginald. Lord Temple's anxious state.-Letter from Sir John.-Return to Swanbourne. 42 CHAPTER IV. Sound of bustle at Swanbourne.- Robert's return from Sea.-Arrival of Arthur.-Struck with the altered mien of Reginald.-Lord Temple's painful communication to Sir John.-The letter from Sir John.-High and sensitive sentiments of Alfred Churton.. CHAPTER V. Grief of the poor around Penscellwood.—Robert's argument. Some conversation on the unintelligible decrees of Providence.- Reginald, Arthur, and Lord Temple. 65 73 CHAPTER VI. Meeting in the Housekeeper's room.-Mrs. Marvel, Mr. Joshua, and Mr. Caleb.-Gossiping, and rivalry.Caleb's ideas concerning his Master's malady.-Who is to marry Miss Cecile, Lord Temple or Mr. Stapylton?-The Catholic Religion--and new garden. -Contrast of Robert and Arthur.-Mrs. Susannah and the young ladies. CHAPTER VII. The Poor Wanderer- her melancholy tale. Emily's intense sympathy. Her husband accused, and taken to prison.-Doctor Hookwell's second letter on Christian Union.-Church of Rome.-Protestants of 90 |