1. A Brief Examination of the Proofs, by which the Rev. Mr. Boardman attempts to sustain his charge that "a large and learned body of the clergy of the church (of England) have returned to some of the worst errors of Popery"; with a word or two as to his attempt, without proof, to cast the suspicion of Popery on the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: By the Right Rev. George W. Doane, D.D, L.L.D., Bishop of New Jersey. Burlington. 1841. 2. A farther Postscript to Bishop Doane's Brief Examination of Rev. Mr. Boardman's Proofs: Touching Bishop Kenrick's Letter on Christian Union, pp. 230. [pp. 450-462]

4GG Bish~~p Doane and the Oxford Tracts. [JULY
to be required of any man that it should be believed as an
article of ttie faith, or be thought reqi0isite or necessary for
salvation." This plainly asserts that tlie Sc~iptures are the
rule of faith, but Mr. Newman, in this Tract, endeavours to
prove, that " In the sense in which it is comt~only uj~derstood at this day, Scripture, is not, on Anglican principles
the riile of faith."
General councils," says the t~venty-first Artide, "may
not be gathered together without the commandment and
will of princes. And when they be gathered together (forasmuch as they be an assenibly of men, whereof all be not
goven~ed by the Spirit aiid word of God) they may err,
aiid sometimes have erred evei~ in thii~gs pert&'~iI0~fl~ unto
God. ~Vherefore things ordered by them as necessary to
salvation, have neither strength nor authority, unless it may
be detlared that they be taken out of Holy Scripture."
The Tract asserts that there "is a consistency of this article
with the belief ii) the ii~falibility of Oecumenical councils."
It asserts that there is a promise that councils shall 100t err,
where they "are liot only gathered together according to
the`commandment and will of princes,' but in Ike name of
Gkrist, according to iiis promise. The Article merely con
tern plated the human prince, not the King of Saints."
Tl~e thirteenth Article is entitled "Of ~vorks before justificatioii," and is of tlie following import: "~Vo4~s done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are
not pleasatit to God, forasmuch as they spflng not of iaith
in Jesus Christ; neither do they make mcii meet to receive
grace, or as tlie School authors say, deserve grace of congruity; yea rather, for that they are iiot doiie as God bath
willed and commanded them to be done, we doi0bt not but
they have the nature of sin." Mr. Newman tries to persuade men that it is consistelit with this Article, to believe
"that ~vorks done ~vith divine aid, aiid in faith, before justification, do dispose men to receive the grace of justificatioii."
And that "works before justification, when done by the influence of divine aid, gain grace."
The twenty-second Article says-" The Romish doctrine
concerning purgatory, worshipping and adoration, as well
of images as of relics, and also iiivocation of saints is a forid
thing, vainly invented atid grounded upon no warrant of
scripture, but rattler repugliai~t to the word of God." This
is met by such coninieiits as the fbflowing: "Neither is all
doctrine concerning purgatory, pardons, images, and saints