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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 3a

[introduction to summary]

To sum up then, the Council of the League says :—
(a)There is in England a widespread movement, generally deemed and called "a conspiracy," to Romanise the National Church.
(b)The germ of this pestilent thing has reached our land. There are Clergy among us, few, we are glad to think, who know well what it means, and yet are prepared, when they deem the time ripe, to go the full length of reunion with Rome on Rome's terms. Others not so far advanced, are found striving to lead their people in the attempt to discover forced meanings in the Sacraments and Ceremonies of the Church, which do violence to the plain terms of Her Articles, and to the clearly expressed intentions of the compilers of the Prayer Book. A third section, made up mainly of younger men, who know little, and seem to care less, about the principles that lie at the roots of Churchmanship, follow the newest ecclesiastical fashion in doctrine and in ritual, so long as it carries the approval of their superiors.