Causes have necessarily produced their effects. An unprotestantised Church is producing a rapidly unprotestantising State. And is there no remedy? There is. Let the Church go back to her Reformation, and the State may yet go back to Reform: it is Reformation which includes Reform. For a purely Protestant Church must necessarily, under God, produce a purely Protestant State. Shall I sum up the remedy then in one word?

REFORMATION OR RUIN!

May I be permitted to add in plain terms, that the spirit of hostility and exclusion with which Evangelism at the different seasons of its appearance, has been treated by a large portion of the higher Powers in our Establishment, under the reproach of enthusiasm, if persisted in, can result in nothing short of the overthrow of our Established Church. Why is the Church Missionary Society, and other Societies mainly supported by Evangelical Churchmen, not patronized by all the Bench of Bishops? Is it the intention to banish Evangelism from the Church; and to abide the desperate venture of another St. Bartholomew's day? Forms, caremonies, churches, and Establishments may be multiplied without end, but amidst the crash of Institutions which marks the present day, and threatens all that is constituted with overthrow, like the river "the streams whereof make glad the city of God," Ps. xlvi. 4. amidst the confusion of the elements, Evangelism alone is Conservatism. It is erroneous doctrine

that has brought the Church of England to its present brink of ruin, and it is the same evil if persisted in, that will accomplish its ruin. And our infatuation is of no common character, if we do not see the Papists encouraging one another, and with malignant gratulation rejoicing over our ignorance and blindness; "Let them alone; they are but playing our game; for so long as they preach our doctrines, they are but building churches for us." Evangelism alone is essential truth; and where this is not, error and corruption are, and without reformation, certain destruction.

If this address, Reverend Fathers in God, should seem to express too warm a zeal, pardon, I beseech you the warmth of the zeal, in the warmth of the affection which has inspired it. I love the Constitution of my Country both in Church and State: and both my admiration and my gratitude claim the devotion of all my powers in their support. I was at my birth enfeoffed, as every Englishman was, with a two-fold birth-right; a Protestant State and a Protestant Church. My Lords, I ask your Lordships, as Peers of Parliament, to restore me, and those who feel with me, our Protestant State; but this I am well convinced, Reverend Fathers in God, you cannot do, till you first restore us our Protestant Church, renewed in all the active principle, and corresponding practice of our Protestant Reformation. This, Reverend Fathers in God, as Bishops, the chief Pastors and Ministers of our Church, as instruments, you can do; 1

had almost said, this, as instruments, you alone can do; for in addition to your Diocesan patronage, you are, as Ordaining Ministers, the sole and universal Patrons of the Church: on you, and on you only, as Instruments does the admission of the Clergy rest: on you then as Bishops, under God, does the salvation of the Country depend. If you are either selfish, or careless in your ordination or preferment, so will both Church and State correspondingly suffer: if you set up Evangelism, and Evangelical Ministers, as the butt of your reproach, rather than the objects of your selection, as has, at least, been done by too many of your predecessors in office, we shall not have far to go for the corruption of the Church; and in that of the Church, for the corruption of the State. For if "the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be salted?" Matt. v. 13.

I speak honestly, for I speak the unreserved sentiments of my mind. I speak plainly, for I speak to save. I can have but little personal interest in these things; for the term of my lease is nearly exhausted: but as I have received them in trust from my forefathers, I would transmit them to my posterity, not only as conserved but improved. My children claim from me a Protestant State and a Protestant Church; I would fain answer their demand by at least an unimpaired transmission of the same: and my spiritual children seem to require of me a Protestant pulpit, of Evangelical power and virtue, when my feeble

efforts to fill the same shall have ceased. Weak as my apprehension is of "the glorious Gospel of the Blessed God," and poor as my ministration of it is, it is still too lovely and too unequivocally excellent in its effects, for me not to feel deeply desirous to secure it to my

beloved people and And I know no

to my Country when I am gone. one assurance that would more gratify my soul, before it quits this body of sin and death, than that a renewal of our Primitive Reformation were indeed begun, and that other Cranmers, Latimers, and Ridleys, were arising in our Church, who under God, gave favourable hope that such a Reformation might flourish under their hands. For nearly forty years of my ministry, have I lived under growing prayers and hopes of this desirable restoration; and during the larger portion of that season, has it been my unfailing effort to re-introduce the principles of the Reformers, the Baptismal privileges of their Reformation, and their works and sentiments to the awakened attention of our Church and Country: and to correct the School of lapsed Reformation, the School of works and conditions, as it has corrupted the Church since the Restoration, and still corrupts it in the fashionable orthodoxy of this our day, by the free grace and unconditional promise of the Gospel of our Primitive Reformation. Nor have my prayers been silent for your sacred Bench, Reverend Fathers in God, that it would please God to make you "able ministers of Christ, and faithful stewards of the

mysteries of God." 1 Cor. iv. 1. For I am well convinced, that, without prayer, it is vain to expect "Bishops illuminated with true knowledge and understanding of the word;" and without this spiritual illumination, they must be either erroneous or " unpreaching prelates," incapable "both by their preaching and living, to set it forth and shew it accordingly." May God in mercy pour out a spirit of prayer and supplication on his Church, especially for you, Reverend Fathers in God, that you may be endued "with power from on high," (Luke xxiv. 49.) equal to your day of peril and trial; that you may be led to a sound renewed Reformation of our Established Church, a Reformation not merely of improved Bishoprics, multiplied churches, increased ministrations, and all the external provision and array of an outward tabernacle however exquisite in its proportions, or attractive in its splendour, but a Church distinguished by the heavenly spirituality of its worship-a table of shew bread representing spiritual worshippers; an altar of incense denoting the effectual intercession of a mediating Saviour; and a candlestick of unextinguishable light, intimating that divine illumination of the Spirit, without which no worship can be holy. These are the constituents of the true Church of Christ. You may have the most splendid sanctuary of outward pomp, and Established magnificence; but the sanctuary is an empty external, without the three great spiritual realities of a Church; a really