There in, besides, in the ministry of the Established Church a sprinkling of original minds, who cannot be included in either of the two great divisions; and from these _a priori_ one might have hoped much good to the Church.

But such persons no sooner speak out, than the two hostile parties hush their strife, in order the more effectually to overwhelm with just and unjust imputations those who dare to utter truth that has not yet been consecrated by Act of Parliament or by Church Councils.

Among those who have subscribed, to attack others is easy, to defend oneself most arduous.

Recrimination is the only powerful weapon; and noble minds are ashamed to use this.

No hope, therefore, shows itself of Reform from within .-- For myself, I feel that nothing saved me from the infinite distresses which I should have encountered, had I become a minister of the Episcopal Church, but the very unusual prematureness of my religious development.
Besides the great subject of Baptismal Regeneration, the entire Episcopal theory and practice offended me.