out, as I have said, that from 1841 I had severed myself from the
younger generation of Oxford, that Dr. Pusey and I had then closed
our theological meetings at his house, that I had brought my own
weekly evening parties to an end, that I preached only by fits and
starts at St. Mary's, so that the attendance of young men was broken
up, that in those very weeks from Christmas till over Easter, during
which this sermon was preached, I was but five times in the pulpit
there. He would have known that it was written at a time when I was
shunned rather than sought, when I had great sacrifices in
anticipation, when I was thinking much of myself; that I was
ruthlessly tearing myself away from my own followers, and that, in
the musings of that sermon, I was at the very utmost only delivering
a testimony in my behalf for time to come, not sowing my rhetoric
broadcast for the chance of present sympathy. Blot _twelve_.

I proceed: he says at p. 15, "I found him actually using of such
[prelates], (and, as I thought, of himself and his party likewise),
the words 'They yield outwardly; to assent inwardly were to betray
the faith. Yet they are called deceitful and double-dealing, because
they do as much as they can, not more than they may.'" This too is a
proof of my duplicity! Let this writer go with some one else, just a
little further than he has gone with me; and let him get into a court
of law for libel; and let him be convicted; and let him still fancy
that his libel, though a libel, was true, and let us then see whether
he will not in such a case "yield outwardly," without assenting
internally; and then again whether we should please him, if we called
him "deceitful and double-dealing," because "he did as much as he
could, not more than he ought to do." But Tract 90 will supply a real
illustration of what I meant. I yielded to the bishops in outward
act, viz. in not defending the Tract, and in closing the series; but,
not only did I not assent inwardly to any condemnation of it, but I
opposed myself to the proposition of a condemnation on the part of
authority. Yet I was then by the public called "deceitful and
double-dealing," as this writer calls me now, "because I did as much
as I felt I could do, and not more than I felt I could honestly do."
Many were the publications of the day and the private letters which
accused me of shuffling, because I closed the series of tracts, yet
kept the tracts on sale, as if I ought to comply