d, those opinions are, not merely not _sanctioned_ (for
that I do not ask), but not even _suffered_.

"I earnestly hope that your Lordship will excuse my freedom in thus
speaking to you of some members of your Most Rev. and Right Rev.
Body. With every feeling of reverent attachment to your Lordship,
I am, etc."

PROTEST

"Whereas the Church of England has a claim on the allegiance of
Catholic believers only on the ground of her own claim to be
considered a branch of the Catholic Church:

"And whereas the recognition of heresy, indirect as well as direct,
goes far to destroy such claim in the case of any religious body
advancing it:

"And whereas to admit maintainers of heresy to communion, without
formal renunciation of their errors, goes far towards recognising the
same:

"And whereas Lutheranism and Calvinism are heresies, repugnant to
Scripture, springing up three centuries since, and anathematised by
East as well as West:

"And whereas it is reported that the Most Reverend Primate and other
Right Reverend Rulers of our Church have consecrated a Bishop with a
view to exercising spiritual jurisdiction over Protestant, that is,
Lutheran and Calvinist congregations in the East (under the
provisions of an Act made in the last session of Parliament to amend
an Act made in the 26th year of the reign of his Majesty King George
the Third, intituled, 'An Act to empower the Archbishop of
Canterbury, or the Archbishop of York for the time being, to
consecrate to the office of Bishop persons being subjects or citizens
of countries out of his Majesty's dominions'), dispensing at the
same time, not in particular cases and accidentally, but as if on
principle and universally, with any abjuration of error on the part
of such congregations, and with any reconciliation to the Church on
the part of the presiding Bishop; thereby giving some sort of formal
recognition to the doctrines which such congregations maintain:

"And whereas the dioceses in England are connected together by so
close an intercommunion, that what is done by authority in one,
immediately affects the rest:

"On these grounds, I in my place, being a priest of the English
Church and Vicar of St. Mary the Virgin's, Oxford, by way of
relieving my conscience, do hereby solemnly protest against the
measure aforesaid, and disown it, as removing our Church from her
present ground and tending to her disorganisation.

"JOHN HENRY NEWMAN.

"November 11, 1841."