Oct. 7. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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defeat the end of it. 13, 14. The Church proved a Crea- 

 ture of tho Civil Power by Acts of Parliament and the 

 Oatlis of the Cleroy, by the Canons, and their own public 

 Acts. 15. The Absurdity and Impossibility of Church 

 Power, as independent on the State. 16. The Incon- 

 sistency of the Principles and Practice of the High 

 Church. 17. Reasons why the High Church are the 

 most wicked of all Men. 19. Ecclesiastical Authority', 

 as claimed by the High Clergy, an Enemy to Religion. 

 21. A Comparison between the High Church and the 

 Quakers. 33. The Ignorance of the High Church vul- 

 gar, and its Causes. 37. The Enmity of the High Clergv 

 to the Bible. 42—46. Of High-Church Atheism. 51. Of 

 the three High Churches in England." 



In the Inde.x to the 1st vol. we have — 



♦' High-Church priests subscribe the Articles 



without believing them, and abuse those that do. Slis- 

 lead those that follow them, and curse those that leave 

 them. Allow us to read the Bible, but not to make use 



of it Damn all the world, without taking one step 



to convert it." "Low Churchmen the best and only 

 friends of the Church; High Churchmen its bitterest 

 enemies." 



No. 51. is a curious paper on "The three High 

 Churches in England :" 



"The High -Churches, which differ from this Establish- 

 ment, are three in number : 1. Dr. Bimyey's * High 

 Church ; 2. Mr. Lesley^s High Church : and 3. Dr. Brett's 

 High Church." 



With one quotation more I shall leave this viru- 

 lent publication : 



" A High Churchman may be denominated from divers 

 marks and exclamations. He must be devout in damning 

 of Dissenters ; he must roar furiously for the Church and 

 its great modern apostle, the late Duke of Orniond, with 

 some other pious and forsworn gentlemen, who are well 

 affected to the Pretender and the Convocation ; he must 

 rebel for passive obedience; he must uphold divine right by 

 diabolical means ; and he must be loud and zealous for 

 hereditary, indefeasible, and the like orthodox nonsense. 

 But there is one sign more of a true Churchman, which is 

 more lasting and universal than all the rest, and that is a 

 firm and senseless persuasion that the Church is in davger.^ 

 If a man believe this it is enough, his reputation is raised ; 

 and though his life show more of the demon than the 

 Christian, he shall be deemed an excellent Churchman. 

 This is so true, that if an honest atheistical Churchman 

 will but curse and roar against a toleratioa of Dissenters, 

 he shall be sure to find a toleration himself for the blackest 

 iniquities, be rewarded with reputation, and, if possible, 



with power Now for the Low Church clergy." | — 



Vol. iii. pp. 157 — 1G3. 



In Sir Walter Scott's edition of the Somers 

 Tracts, vol. xii. p. 320., occurs a doggrel of six- 

 and- twenty lines, entitled "High-Church Mira-. 



* A name for Dr. Sacheverell. 



t De Foe calls this " the motto " of the Church party. 

 ^See a curious passage in The Review, ii. 230.) 



X As we have not room for the long passage which fol- 

 lows, it must suffice to say that they are represented as 

 the personifications of persecuted piety, suffering gentle- 

 ness, and injured innocence. 



cles, or Modern Inconsistencies, printed in the 

 year 1710." It commences thus : 



" That High Church have a right divine from Jove, 

 By signs and wonders they pretend to prove. 

 They can a mortal soul immortal make ; 

 They can hy prayers our Constitution shake." 



And ends with the lines, — 



" But I defy themselves and all their devils 

 To wash the iEthiop white, and purge High Church 

 from evils." 



In the same volume see "A High Church or Tory 

 Address," " A Low Church or Whig Address," 

 " A Satire upon the Addresses of the High- 

 Church Party." 



To illustrate what I said in a former Note, 

 about the various parallels drawn by Anglican 

 writers between Popery and Puritanism, Jesuits 

 and Presbyterians, &c., would be an endless task ; 

 but I cannot refrain from referring to Hudibras, 

 Part I. c. iii. 1. 1201., with the notes of Dr. Grey ; 

 and to the "huge personal resemblance" between 

 Jack and Peter, as set forth in Swift's Tale of a 

 Tub. 



In conclusion I shall feel obliged for inform- 

 ation respecting a pamphlet, entitled The Distinc- 

 tion betiveen High and Low Church considered.* 

 Dr. Hancock's reply to it I have already noticed. 



Jabltzbebg. 



March 6, 1854. 



P.S. — Since writing my last Note I have met 

 with a reprint of Dr. Turner's — 



" Hunting and Fynd3Hig out of the Romish Fox .... 

 Amended and curtailed ; with a short Account of the 

 Author prefixed. By Robert Potts, M.A., Cambridge, 

 1851, London, J. W. Parker, pp. 40, 8vo." 



One reason of the popularity of the simile of 

 Foxes and Firebrands with old writers was, per- 

 haps, that it contained a classical as well as Scrip- 

 tural allusion. Ovid thus relates the strange 

 custom of tying firebrands to the tails of foxes, 

 which prevailed among the early Romans : 



" Whylome Fox was catch'd within liis hole, 

 A fox that often had their poultry stole : 

 On Renard's back, and fast to either side, 

 Of hay and straw they little bundles tyed : 

 Then did thereon some lighted matches lay, 

 And let the burning creature scour away. 

 Through tho cornfields swift flew the wafted flame 

 Which bore destruction wheresoe'er it came. 



[* "We can supply the title, but not the authorship, of 

 this pamphlet : — " The Distinction of High Church and 

 Low Church distinctly considered and fairly stated. With 

 some Reflections upon the Popular Plea of Moderation, 

 humbly offered (as a word in season) to the consideration 

 of the ensuing Parliament and Convocation. The second 

 edition reviewed, and made more perfect and correct. 

 With a Short Reply to a late Answer, called ' The Low 

 Churchman Vindicated,' &c. London, printed for Samuel 

 Manship, at the Ship, near the Royal Exchange, Cornhill, 

 1705, pp. 91."— Ed.] 



