Tracts for the Times: Remarks on Certain Passages in the Thirty-Nine Articles (Classic Reprint)

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Four Gentlemen, Tutors of their respective Col-s leges, have published a protest against the Tract in question. I have no cause. At all to complain of their so doing, though as I shall directly say, I con sider that they have misunderstood me. They do not, I trust, suppose that I feel any offence or sored ness at their proceeding; of course I naturally think that I am right and they are wrong but this persuasion is quite consistent both with my honouring their zeal for Christian truth and their anxiety for the welfare of our younger members, and with my very great consciousness that, even though I be right in my principle, I may have advocated truth in a. Wrong way. Such acts as theirs when done honestly, as they have done them, must benefit all parties, and draw them nearer to each other in good will, ifnot in Opinion. But to proceed to the subject of this Letter.

I propose to offer some explanation of the Tract in two respects, - as to its principal statement and its object.

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