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The Reunion of Christendom.

ADDRESSED TO

THE REV. E. S. FFOULKES, B.D.,

AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO

THE REV. GENTLEMEN, LATE OF THE ANGLICAN, NOW
OF THE ROMAN CHURCH,

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S. W. PARTRIDGE AND CO., 9, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1870.

110. j: 268

PREFACE.

THE following pages have been suggested by the perusal of Mr FFOULKES' late Pamphlets, on THE CHURCH'S CREED, &c., and THE ROMAN INDICES. In furtherance

of his cherished scheme of a Reunion of Christendom, Mr. FFOULKES left ENGLAND for ROME; but ROME, like an unnatural step-mother, has cast him off. He has learnt from experience that peace and harmony are not to be found in ROME: A warning to the waverer! The choice again forces itself upon him-ENGLAND or ROME. He has himself given the palm, on the score of morality, to ENGLAND, and the writer has sought to establish, as a fact, that the doctrines of ROME are a bar to all possibility of a Reunion of Christendom.

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The Epistolary form has been example set by Mr. FFOULKES.

adopted, following the

It has enabled the

writer to throw more life and individuality into his arguments by a direct appeal to Mr. FFOULKES' personal experiences, and through him to reach all those who are "halting between two opinions."

The subject and method of treatment do not require that the writer should announce himself otherwise than as

1st. Feb., 1870.

A Lay Member of the Church of England.

ENGLAND OR ROME.

THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM.

To the Rev. E. S. Ffoulkes, B.D.

REVEREND SIR,

WHEN Dr. Manning, now an archbishop in the Roman Church, made the public announcement that he had renounced the church of his birth and education, in which he had taken the vows of "holy orders," and had ministered for many years, to embrace the Roman religion, he accompanied that announcement with a public declaration of the great comfort and consolation he had derived from that change. The declaration was simply made, but emphatic in its terms, and impressed many, no doubt, with the feeling that the writer spoke from conscientious convictions. Dr. Manning was no novice, no juvenile aspirant for ecclesiastical celebrity, nor did he belong to what Dr.

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