.  .  Popery,  not  indeed  of  the  days  of  Hildebrand
or  Leo  the  Tenth,  but  Popery  as  it  first  established
itself  in  the  seventh  and  eighth  centuries,  is  already
among  us.  .  .  .  Popery  has  anew  arisen  up  among
us,  in  youthful  vigour  and  in  her  youthful  attractions.
Such  is  the  chief,  the  greatly  preponderating  peril,
which  besets  the  Church  of  England  at  the  present  day.
It  has  in  it  all  the  essential  features  of  Popery ;  but,
apart  from  this,  and  were  it  never  to  proceed  beyond
the  perils  to  which  it  has  now  reached,  it  is  fraught
with  the  fearful  evil  of  a  withering,  parching,  blighting
operation,  drying -up  and  banishing  all  spiritual  life
and  influence  from  the  Church."^

Lastly,  a  theological  professor  of  the  High  Church
section,  in  an  attack  which  he  delivered  from  the  pulpit,
viewed  the  movement  from  another  point  of  view,  yet
in  perfect  accordance  of  judgment  with  tlie  two  writers
who  have  been  already  cited  :  "  Instead  of  quietly
acquiescing,"  he  says,  "  in  what  they  cannot  change,
submitting  in  silence  to  their  imagined  privations,  and
patiently  enduring  tliis  '  meagreness  of  Protestantism,'
by   a  species  of  'ecclesiastical  agitation,'  uncxampkd

'  Essays  on  tlie    Church,    by    a    Layuiaii,     1838,     jiji.   270,    299,  30a
Ditto,   1840,  p.  401.
