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"Then why do you make so much of your doctrine of 'faith only'?" said Bateman; "for that is not in Scripture, and is but a human deduction." "My doctrine!" cried Freeborn; "why it's in the Articles; the Articles expressly say that we are justified by faith only." "Nor do the Articles say that the doctrine they propound is necessary for salvation," added Bateman.
"I knows exactly what you wants, Mr Grenvile, and I've got the very man for the job. I'll see to it, sir." And he took the tiller rope out of the hands of the man who was steering, giving him instructions to "send Bill Bateman aft."
They are all very right; but the worship of Saints, especially the Blessed Virgin, and of relics, the gabbling over prayers in an unknown tongue, Indulgences, and infrequent communions, I suspect are directly unscriptural." "My dear Bateman," said Willis, "you seem to live in an atmosphere of controversy; so it was at Oxford; there was always argument going on in your rooms.
Freeborn observed, gravely, that if the two Churches were one, as had been maintained, he could not see, do what he would, why it was wrong to go to and fro from one to the other. "You forget," said Bateman to White, "you have, or might have, all this in your own Church, without the Romish corruptions." "As to the Romish corruptions," answered White, "I know very little about them."
One afternoon, the day after a mail had arrived from Tahiti, when she was driving with Bateman he said to her: "Did Edward tell you when he was sailing?" "No, he didn't mention it. I thought he might have said something to you about it." "Not a word." "You know what Edward is," she laughed in reply, "he has no sense of time.
It was much better that he should learn the business thoroughly, and if they had been able to wait a year there seemed no reason why they should not wait another. It was with relief that she found as the time passed that he made no suggestion of returning. "He's splendid, isn't he?" she exclaimed to Bateman. "He's white, through and through."
"My good fellow," said Bateman, in a tone of instruction, "you are making a distinction between a Church and a body which I don't quite comprehend. You say that there are two bodies, and yet but one Church. If so, the Church is not a body, but something abstract, a mere name, a general idea; is that your meaning? if so, you are an honest Calvinist."
Bateman found them "thoroughly and unimpeachably honest, brave to foolhardiness, and faithful to each other and to their superiors." One of their kings, Calemba, "a really princely prince," Bateman says would "amongst any people be a remarkable and indeed in many respects a magnificent man." These beginnings of human culture were, however, peculiarly vulnerable to invading hosts of later comers.
Immediately after the session of parliament, the king revived the order of the Bath, thirty-eight in number, including the sovereign. William Bateman was created baron of Calmore in Ireland, and viscount Bateman; and sir Kobert Walpole, who had been one of the revived knights of the Bath, was now honoured with the order of the Garter.
It was a printseller's man with a large book of plates. "Well timed," said Bateman; "put them down, Baker: or rather give them to me; I can take the opinion of you men on a point I have much at heart. You know I wanted you, Freeborn, to go with me to see my chapel; Sheffield and Reding have looked into it. Well now, just see here."
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