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 that the perusal of your statement in your first volume, p. 451, respecting the erroneous doctrines which have obtained "the unanimous consent of the whole Church of the East," did not prepare me to find your name affixed to a document which intimates that the Eastern Churches are regarded by the Memorialists as not "corrupting the Apostolic doctrines." In the part of your work to which I refer, the "Seven Sacraments," "Transubstantiation," "Purgatory," the "adoration of pictures," the "worship of hyperdulia to the blessed Virgin, and that of dulia to the holy Angels and to all Saints," are mentioned as being authoritatively approved by the Churches, to the governors of which the Memorial is addressed; and that a body of clergymen who have subscribed our Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and who hold their preferments by virtue of that subscription, should publish a statement which implies that they do not view the errors above mentioned as being "corruptions" of the Apostolic doctrines," is in my opinion a circumstance much to be deplored.

You intimate to me that, inasmuch as the course which you have taken did not relate to "the instruction and well ordering of the school," it was an unwarrantable interference with your independence as a Schoolmaster for me to address to you such a communication as my letter of the 25th ultimo. I cannot admit the principle which you thus lay down, that the course adopted by the Schoolmaster