Russia And the English Church Containing a Correspondence Between Mr William
Russia And the English Church Containing a Correspondence Between Mr William
William John Birkbeck
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E. 'Ussher is almost a complete Calvinist ; but yet he, no less than those Bishops who give expression to Orthodox convictions, belongs to the Anglican Church. [W. J. B. ] VITALITY OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH 71 [quantity] changes the whole equation to an unknown quantity, even though every other datum be as clear and as positive as possible. Do not, I pray, nourish the hope of finding Christian truth without stepping out of the former Protestant circle. It is an illogical hope ; it is a remnant of ...that pHiTft__whig)i t-hough* tt^l* M and jjnA^A fav j"^^ and decide by itself "without the Spiritual rVunmiinuin of Viftn. Vp. NTy graAfl and fihrigfcian love.. Were you to find all the truth, you would have found nothing ; for we alone can give you that without which all would be vain the assur- ance of truth. Do not doubt the energies of Orthodoxy. Young as I am, I have seen the day when it was publicly either scoffed at or at least treated with manifest contempt by [too many in] our [high] society ; when [I] myself, who was bred in a religious family and have never been ashamed of adhering strictly to the rites of the Church, was either supposed a sycophant or considered as a disguised Romanist ; for nobody supposed the possibility of civilisation and Orthodoxy being united.
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