ey are
proved to have forfeited it; he should know it by my own words in that
very Sermon, in which I say it is best to be natural, and that reserve
is at best but an unpleasant necessity. For I say there expressly:--

"I do not deny that there is something very engaging in a frank
and unpretending manner; some persons have it more than others;
in _some persons it is a great grace_. But it must be
recollected that I am speaking of _times of persecution and
oppression_ to Christians, such as the text foretells; and then
surely frankness will become nothing else than indignation at
the oppressor, and vehement speech, if it is permitted.
Accordingly, as persons have deep feelings, so they will find
the necessity of self-control, lest they should say what they
ought not."

He sums up thus:

"If [Dr. Newman] would ... persist (as in this Sermon) in
dealing with matters dark, offensive, doubtful, sometimes
actually forbidden, at least according to the notions of the
great majority of English Churchmen; if he would always do so in
a tentative, paltering way, seldom or never letting the world
know how much he believed, how far he intended to go; if, in a
word, his method of teaching was a suspicious one, what wonder
if the minds of men were filled with suspicions of him?"--p. 17.

Now, in the course of my Narrative, I have frankly admitted that I was
tentative in such of my works as fairly allowed of the introduction into
them of religious inquiry; but he is speaking of my Sermons; where,
then, is his proof that in my Sermons I dealt in matters dark,
offensive, doubtful, actually forbidden? He must show that I was
tentative in my Sermons; and he has the range of eight volumes to gather
evidence in. As to the ninth, my University Sermons, of course I was
tentative in them; but not because "I would seldom or never let the
world know how much I believed, or how far I intended to go;" but
because University Sermons are commonly, and allowably, of the nature of
disquisitions, as preached before a learned body; and because in deep
subjects, which had not been fully investigated, I said as much as I
believed, and about as far as I saw I could go; and a man cannot do
more; and I account no man to be a philosopher who attempts to do more.

NOTE D. ON PAGE 213.

SERIES OF SAINTS' LIVES OF 1843-4.

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