He could scarcely declare his opinion of the Tractarians, who remain in a Church to which they no longer belong, without indirectly giving offence to Roman Catholics.

In the controversy about Baptismal Regeneration he took a prominent part, siding on the question with the Tractarians, though his views on some other points of Church doctrine were less advanced than those of the leaders of the Oxford movement.

By degrees it became clear that the impatience and intolerance which had purged the University of so many Churchmen had, after all, left the Church movement itself untouched, to assume by degrees proportions scarcely dreamed of when it began; but that what the defeat of the Tractarians really had done was, to leave the University at the mercy of Liberals to whom what had been called Liberalism in the days of

Mark Pattison relates how on one occasion he advanced, in Newman's presence, some liberal opinion, in the days when he was himself numbered among the Tractarians; and that Newman deposited, as was his wont, an icy "Very likely!"

I conceive that none, save the Tractarians of Oxford, and their party, will deny the beneficial moral influence which such Sabbath instruction has exerted upon our teeming population.

If you have a bias in that direction, he has or has heard some thoughts on Bishop Colenso and the Tractarians.

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But it was his curious fate to be dragged into the front ranks of the fray, and to be singled out as almost the most wicked and dangerous of the Tractarians.

CHAPTER VII THE TRACTARIANS

Old scores between Orthodox, Evangelicals, and Liberals were wiped out, and the Tractarians were left to bear alone the odium of the "persecution" of Dr. Hampden.

It was occasioned by the common allegation, on the side of some of the advanced section of the Tractarians, as well as on the side of their opponents, that the Thirty-nine Articles were hopelessly irreconcilable with that Catholic teaching which Mr. Newman had defended on the authority of our great divines, but which both the parties above mentioned were ready to identify with the teaching of the Roman Church.

So if they will have a Tractarian sense, they are thereby all Tractarians....

In the heat of those days there were few Tractarians who did not think Dr. Wynter, Dr. Faussett, and Dr. Symons heretics in theology and persecutors in temper, despisers of Christian devotion and self-denial.

When the names come back to our minds of those who led and most represented the Tractarians, it must be a matter of surprise to any man who has not almost parted with the idea of Christian goodness, that this feature of the movement could escape or fail to impress those who had known well all their lives long what these leaders were.

Their most telling charge against the Tractarians, which was embodied in the censure of No. 90, was the charge of dishonesty.

The Tractarians had been distinctly beaten; it was their first defeat as a party.

Men of this kind, men of high character and weight in Oxford, found much to dislike and regret in the Tractarians.

Confidence in their prospects as a party might have been impaired in the Tractarians; but confidence in their principles; confidence that they had rightly interpreted the spirit, the claims, and the duties of the English Church, confidence that devotion to its cause was the call of God, whatever might happen to their own fortunes, this confidence was unshaken by the catastrophe of February.

It saw greater hopes in the present and the future than the Tractarians.

They inflicted on the beaten side, sometimes with more ingenuity than fairness, the lesson that the "wheel had come round full circle" with them; that they were but reaping as they themselves had sown:but now that there seemed little more to fear from the Tractarians, the victorious authorities were the power which the Liberals had to keep in check.

It was a favourite boast of Dean Stanley's in after-times, that the intervention of the Liberals had saved the Tractarians from complete disaster.

But the debt of the Tractarians to their Liberal friends in 1845 was not so great as Dean Stanley, thinking of the Liberal party as what it had ultimately grown to be, supposed to be the case.

The Tractarians were saved by what they were and what they had done, and could do, themselves.

See Addresses, and Howley Arians, the Arnold, Dr., theories on the Church his proposal to unite all sects by law attack on Tractarians Professorship at Oxford his influence shown in rise of third school Articles, the, and Dissenters subscription of.

See Oxford Tractarians, excitement against Tract, text of the first Tracts, the topics of mode of circulating reception of accused of Romanism first volume of later numbers, character of public opinion against "No. 90," q.v. contributors to on "Reserve," q.v. on "Mysticism," q.v.