g, to examine in detail the Pamphlet which has been
written against me, I am very sorry to be obliged to say, that it is
as slovenly and random and futile in its definite charges, as it is
iniquitous in its method of disputation. And now I proceed to show
this without any delay; and shall consider in order,

1. My Sermon on the Apostolical Christian.
2. My Sermon on Wisdom and Innocence.
3. The Anglican Church.
4. The Lives of the English Saints.
5. Ecclesiastical miracles.
6. Popular Religion.
7. The Economy.
8. Lying and Equivocation.

1. My Sermon on "The Apostolical Christian," being the 19th of
"Sermons on Subjects of the Day"

This writer says, "What Dr. Newman means by Christians ... he has
not left in doubt;" and then, quoting a passage from this sermon
which speaks of "the humble monk and the holy nun" being "Christians
after the very pattern given us in Scripture," he observes, "This is
his _definition_ of Christians."--p. 9.

This is not the case. I have neither given a definition, nor implied
one, nor intended one; nor could I, either now or in 1843-4, or
at any time, allow of the particular definition he ascribes to me. As
if all Christians must be monks or nuns!

What I have said is, that monks and nuns are patterns of Christian
perfection; and that Scripture itself supplies us with this pattern.
Who can deny this? Who is bold enough to say that St. John Baptist,
who, I suppose, is a Scripture character, is not a pattern-monk; and
that Mary, who "sat at our Lord's feet," was not a pattern-nun? and
"Anna too, who served God with fastings and prayers night and day?"
Again, what is meant but this by St. Paul's saying, "It is good for a
man not to touch a woman?" and, when speaking of the father or
guardian of a young girl, "He that giveth her in marriage doeth well;
but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better?" And what does
St. John mean but to praise virginity, when he says of the hundred
forty and four thousand on Mount Sion, "These are they which were not
defiled with women, for they are virgins?" And what else did our Lord
mean, when He said, "There be eunuchs who have made themselves
eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive
it, let him receive it?"

He ought to know his logic better: I have said that "monks and nuns
find their pattern in Scripture:" he adds, _Therefore_ I hold all
Christians are monks and nuns.

This is Blot _one_.