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Her husband, absorbed in his military life, silent, narrowly able, and governed by a strict Anglicanism that seemed to carry with it innumerable "shalts" and "shalt nots," disagreeable to the natural man or woman, soon found her a tiring and trying companion.
She was the "merchandise," and Lethington and Lord James wished to make Elizabeth acknowledge the Scottish Queen as her successor, the alternative being to seek her price as a wife for an European prince. An "union of hearts" with England might conceivably mean Mary's acceptance of the Anglican faith. In his eyes Anglicanism was "a bastard religion," "a mingle-mangle now commanded in your kirks."
A lady of Presbyterian antecedents who had conformed to Anglicanism once said to the present writer, "I dislike the Episcopal Church as much as ever, but I love the Decanal Church."
His clerical dress expressed a moderate Anglicanism, and his opinions were those of his class and neighbourhood, put for him day by day in his favourite newspaper, with a cogency at which he marvelled. Yet he was no more a hypocrite than his wife, and below his common-places both of manner and thought there lay warm feelings and a quick conscience.
They were most of them keenly religious men, with a true concern for their souls as the first matter of all, with a great zeal for me, but giving little certainty at the time as to which way they would ultimately turn. Some in the event have remained firm to Anglicanism, some have become Catholics, and some have found a refuge in Liberalism.
I was born and trained in Anglicanism, and it is with a sort of astonishment I find myself passing now out of every sort of Catholicism seeing it from the outside...." "Just as one might see Buddhism," she supplied. "And yet feeling nearer, infinitely nearer to God," he said. "Yes," she panted; "yes." "I thought if one went out, one went out just to doubt and darkness." "And you don't?" "No."
And is not the same thing done in Anglicanism, Lutheranism, and every denomination of Protestantism which has been formed into a church?
'It 's an easy way to have the pull of them in your own mind. You might learn from him. He's willing for controversy. Nature-worship or "aboriginal genuflexion," he calls it; Anglicanism, Methodism; he stands to engage them.
Down had come the Via Media as a definite theory or scheme, under the blows of St. Leo. My "Prophetical Office" had come to pieces; not indeed as an argument against "Roman errors," nor as against Protestantism, but as in behalf of England. I had no longer a distinctive plea for Anglicanism, unless I would be a Monophysite.
Frederic Rogers, that, as regards my Anglicanism, perhaps I might break down in the event, that perhaps we were both out of the Church.
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