spaper,
and on the 26th addressed a private note on the subject to Mr. Kent, in
which he said:--

... The great difference between us seems to be that I value what I
hold to be the cardinal doctrines, and morals and interests of
Christianity, above either Churchism or Methodism. So that those
interests are advanced, either through the Church of England, or
Church of Scotland, or any other Protestant Church, I therein do
rejoice and will rejoice. You make the Church of England first of
all--essential to all--all in all; and that all who are not in the
Church of England are enemies to the Church of Christ, "strangers
to the covenants of promise, and aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel." ... It is true you have exempted me by way of compliment;
but no intelligent man would wish to hold his religious intercourse
and standing on the tenor of a compliment; and that too at the
expense of his ecclesiastical connexion and general principles. If
I cannot but be viewed as an enemy of the Church of England as a
Methodist, it is a poor compliment to tell me that I am friendly to
it as a man. I do not understand the hair-splitting casuistry which
separates the man from the Christian....

I believe in your perfect sincerity and personal disinterestedness
and kindness, but I must say that you do not appear from the last
_Church_ to suppose it possible for a man to think in a different
channel from yourself without endangering his title to the skies,
or to common sense, and without absolutely forfeiting his claim to
orthodox Christianity. I refer not all to your maintenance of
apostolic succession, but to your unqualified reprobation of the
motives, feelings, and character of all who are not of your own
fold. How different are the sentiments and spirit of Bishop
Onderdonk's essay in support of the "Divine Right of Episcopacy"
from those of your articles in the last _Church_? Now, though we
may be without the attributes of what you believe to be a
scripturally constituted Church, we are not without the attributes
and feelings of men.... The apparatus of the Church of England is
surprisingly powerful when spiritually, rightly, and
comprehensively applied; but to build your structure like an
inverted pyramid, and to rouse every one not of you into warfare
against