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ART. I. The Protestant's Companion, or, a seasonable Preservative against the Errors, Corruptions, and unfounded Claims, of a superstitious and idolatrous Church; with a Chapter respectfully addressed to our Governors, and another to the Clergy. By the Rev. Charles Daubeny, LL.D., Archdeacon of Sarum. 8vo. 408 pp. 98. Rivingtons. 1824.

THE author of this valuable work has been long known to the readers of the British Critic, as one of the most eminent apologists of the discipline and doctrines of the Established Church. After having devoted a long and wellspent life to a firm but temperate support of the real rights of our ecclesiastical polity, it is with no little propriety, that he has devoted the evening of his days to this manly and judicious protest against the exorbitant and exclusive claims of the Romish priesthood. In this respect, we think, that the Archdeacon of Sarum may challenge such a character for consistency in his writings, as it does not fall to many authors to possess. It is perfectly natural, that the antagonist of schismatics should bear his testimony against those overweening pretensions of Popery, which would place the whole of Christendom besides itself, in a state of schism, would destroy the unity of the Church at the very moment of asserting it, and which, by seeking to tyrannize over the rights of others, has called forth a spirit of licentiousness that spurns at all ecclesiastical order and authority.

Nor is it less pleasing to consider the good effect which such exertions may produce on the minds of all candid and reflecting Protestants. From such an example, they will learn how remote is an acknowledgment of the just and legitimate claims of the Church from that monstrous and des. potic tyranny, which not only denies the rights of conscience to individuals, but which denounces the claims of all national and independent Churches. Hence they will perceive the falsity of those calumnies which confound the advocates of ecclesiastical order and of Christian liberty, with the blind Q

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and servile tools of a base and degrading superstition. "Civil liberty," says Claudian, "never appears more beautiful and decorous, than under a pious monarchy;"-and ecclesiastical liberty, we may add, never appears to such advantage as when advocated by those who have distinguished themselves by their resistance to the innovations of schism and heresy.

It is with such claims to public attention, and with such recollections of former services, that Archdeacon Daubeny now comes forward as the defender of the rights and privileges of the English Church. To those who are acquainted with his former works, it is needless to say, that he writes not only with a complete command of temper, but with that candour and ingenuousness which disdains to take any advantage of the faults and frailties of his opponent. Here the reader will be amused by no rejoinders of invective, and by no echoes of sarcasm. Every thing is calmly and dispassionately discussed, and is brought in a plain and straight forward manner to the test. There is, throughout the whole, such a manifest superiority of knowledge and power, without any effort at display, that all struggle is superseded, and the victory is awarded, without the noise and hurry of a triumph.

In his first chapter, Archdeacon Daubeny very properly criticizes the title of the work which he proposes to refute"A Defence of the Christian Religion during the last thirteen Centuries."

"Against this title I feel myself called upon to enter my decided protest, because it is fraught with notorious fallacy. Under the title of Defence of the Christian Religion,' the purchaser of this work is obviously led to expect a defence of those important and fundamental doctrines which constitute the essence of Christianity. But instead of those essential doctrines in which all true Christians are deeply interested, the reader finds himself put off with a long train of trifling evasions, intended to explain away the unequivocal language of a positive commandment; accompanied with a tedious assemblage of plausible palliations of some of the corrupt doctrines of the Church of Rome, by one of her own accredited priests. For the publication in question does not contain a defence of the Christian religion, as it was professed by the primitive Church, but for the most part a defence of those unscriptu ral doctrines, which the packed council of Trent thought fit to add to the Apostolic creed, against which the Church of Christ in a state of purity must ever revolt. A manœuvre which does not appear to be of the most creditable kind, and which can take shelter only under the well-known jesuitical maxim, of the end justifying the means.' With equal propriety, I might say, with equal honesty, might a writer, having put together a defence of the Oliverian Protectorate, send it forth into the world, under the imposing title of a Defence of the English Constitution'." P. 5.

He then remarks, that in using the denomination of Papist instead of Catholic, he cannot give any just cause of offence to those who blasphemously distinguish the head of their Church by the title of "our Lord Godthe Pope," (p. 8.) Much as we had heard of the monstrous language made use of by the Romish Church, we must confess we were strangers to this excess of blasphemy, till we met with the following pass ige, which is given on the authority of an eye-witness.

"As yet the horns of St. Peter had not begun to bud. He was as yet the humble disciple of the humblest Master. But how would his colleagues in office, his brother Apostles have been astonished, could they have looked forward and seen, what I have seen, this boasted successor of St. Peter, riding in a chair of state, elevated on men's shoulders, into the Church of St. Peter's at Rome, having his crowns carried before him, with his fan-flappers walking on each side, to prevent troublesome flies from incommoding his Holiness; followed by a long train of attendants and guards; and in this parading state carried to an elevated seat at the east end of the church above the altar, there to receive the homage of the cardinals, bishops, and priests; the first kissing his hand, the second his knee, and the last his foot. How would his brother Apostles have been astonished to have heard this self-exalted personage affecting the divine title of infallibility, assuming to himself the absolute and uncontrouled use of the keys, asserting his decrees to be of the same or greater authority than the word of God, absolutely necessary, as Bellarmine asserts, whether they are expressly found in scripture or not.' How would they have been astonished beyond measure, to have heard their brother Apostle styled, Our Lord God, the Pope, another God upon earth, King of kings, and Lord of lords:' and to have been given to understand, that these, and the like blasphemies, were not only allowed, but even approved, encouraged, and rewarded in the writers of the Church of Rome; and were not only the extravagancies of private writers, but the language of even public decretals and acts of council; so that they would consider the Pope evidently answering to the description given by St. Paul, of that supreme personage, who 'sitteth as God in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.' 2 Thess. xxviii. 2-4." P. 28.

The second chapter treats " Of the usurped supremacy of the Pope, and the boasted universality of the Church of Rome." This shows, by an appeal to the early authors, that no such claims were made, till Phocas conferred the title of "universal Bishop" on Boniface the Third; and the absurdity of setting up any such pretences, as the succession of St. Peter, is still more clearly evinced by reference to Scripture. With respect to the universality of the Romish Church, Archdeacon Daubeny satisfactorily shows, that the