Excerpt from Sermons on the Church, Preached Before the University of Oxford
The danger had commenced in 1833 with the adoption and eager propagation, by a few individuals, of "Church principles," so called, much too closely allied to the system of Rome; and gradually advancing to the palliation of Romish errors, and their ultimate approval, the result appeared in 1845, in the open defection of many members of the Church of England from the pure truth of the Gospel. But so early as 1841, the growing uneasiness in several minds at the inconsistency between their acquired principles and those of the Church to which they had subscribed, seems to have led to a notable attempt to retain them within her communion, or even in her ministry, by reconciling Roman tenets with subscription to the Articles of the English Church. For a while even ingenuous minds were deceived by a specious theory; and the integrity of Subscription was sensibly impaired. Happily the mists are rolling away, although the horizon is not yet clear.
This slight reference to the controversies of the day will account for expressions in these Sermons which might otherwise, perhaps, be obscure.
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