glican Jews there who require a Bishop; I am
told there are not half-a-dozen. But for _them_ the Bishop is sent
out, and for them he is a Bishop of the _circumcision_" (I think he
was a converted Jew, who boasted of his Jewish descent), "against the
Epistle to the Galatians pretty nearly. Thirdly, for the sake of
Prussia, he is to take under him all the foreign Protestants who will
come; and the political advantages will be so great, from the
influence of England, that there is no doubt they will come. They are
to sign the Confession of Augsburg, and there is nothing to show that
they hold the doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration.

"As to myself, I shall do nothing whatever publicly, unless indeed it
were to give my signature to a Protest; but I think it would be out
of place in _me_ to agitate, having been in a way silenced; but the
Archbishop is really doing most grave work, of which we cannot see
the end."

I did make a solemn Protest, and sent it to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, and also sent it to my own Bishop, with the following
letter:--

"It seems as if I were never to write to your Lordship, without
giving you pain, and I know that my present subject does not
specially concern your Lordship; yet, after a great deal of anxious
thought, I lay before you the enclosed Protest.

"Your Lordship will observe that I am not asking for any notice of
it, unless you think that I ought to receive one. I do this very
serious act, in obedience to my sense of duty.

"If the English Church is to enter on a new course, and assume a new
aspect, it will be more pleasant to me hereafter to think, that I did
not suffer so grievous an event to happen, without bearing witness
against it.

"May I be allowed to say, that I augur nothing but evil, if we in any
respect prejudice our title to be a branch of the Apostolic Church?
That Article of the Creed, I need hardly observe to your Lordship, is
of such constraining power, that, if _we_ will not claim it, and use
it for ourselves, _others_ will use it in their own behalf against
us. Men who learn, whether by means of documents or measures, whether
from the statements or the acts of persons in authority, that our
communion is not a branch of the one Church, I foresee with much
grief, will be tempted to look out for that Church elsewhere.

"It is to me a subject of great dismay, that, as far as the Church
has lately spoken out, on the subject of the opinions which I and
others hol