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Excerpt from The Church of England Vindicated Against Romanism and Ultra-Protestantism: In Sermons Preached and Published on Various Occasions AT the suggestion of his publisher, the Author has been induced to collect into one volume, the Sermons, which, during the last twenty years, he has published from time to time, in vindication of the purest and best reformed branch of the Catholic Church, the Church of England. And this he has done the more readily, since circumstances have occurred, by the defection of some to the ranks either of ultra-protestantism or of popery, which render it incumbent upon Anglican Churchmen to declare Openly that they abide by and are ready to maintain the position of the Church of. England, in the via media between the two extremes: our Church being protestant as Opposed to the abuses and idola tries of Popery, and Catholic as-opposed to the heresies' of ultra-protestantism. The Anglican principle upon which our Church was providentially led, at the period of the Reforma tion, to form a strong, positive, objective system, is that of asserting, as truth, what was received by the early undivided Church, and can be proved by Holyhave had recourse to the novel invention of develop ment. Whenever the Anglican prinmple has been strongly pressed, as in the days of Bishop Bull, and in our own times, Romanists and Romanizers, who, against ultra-protestants, are strong in their expres sions of respect for primitive Christianity, have been obliged to retreat from that position and adopt the doctrine of developments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.