the want of a hierarchy (you will excuse me for connecting views so humiliating with divine truth), the rich Dissenters, in the course of a generation or two, fall into the bosom of our Church.

As holding out attractions to the upper orders, the Church of England has no advantages over that of Rome, but rather the contrary.

Papacy will join with us in preserving the form, but for the purpose and in the hope of seizing the substance for itself.

Its ambition is upon record; it is essentially at enmity with light and knowledge; its power to exclude these blessings is not so great as formerly, though its desire to do so is equally strong, and its determination to exert its power for its own exaltation by means of that exclusion is not in the least abated.

The See of Rome justly regards England as the head of Protestantism; it admires, it is jealous, it is envious of her power and greatness.