After the suppression of the Gallican liberties, the hostility between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches was for a long time wholly unbroken.The early Church, said Stillingfleet, showed great toleration towards different parties within its communion, and allowed among its members and ministers diverse rites and various lt koenig wwii opinions.The Latitudinarian party in the English Church had, almost without exception, a slight bias toward Puritan opinions.Between us and those who practise a worship which we think wanting in form and lt koenig wwii substance, there is too wide an interval we cannot understand one another.The excited controversy which was being waged among theologians was but one sign of the general uneasiness that had been prevailing.Churchmen of all views came lt koenig wwii generously forward.In Ireland he wisely accepted the fact that the Roman Catholic priests had the heart of the people, and shaped his conduct accordingly.In the absence of some such incentive, his mind, liberal as it was by nature and general habit, was overborne by the persistent clamour that lt koenig wwii the Dissenters were bent upon overthrowing the National Church, and that concession had become for the time impossible., and I look upon it as one of the greatest plagues of Christianity.There were some fanatics, Hannah More tells us, who lt koenig wwii said it was a sin to oppose God's vengeance against Popery, and succour the priests who it was His will should starve.' When Marshall, in the course of controversy, reproached the Baptists with separation, Tombs answered that he must blame the persons, not the general body.The negotiations continued, but the interest of the King had slackened the proceedings of the Collegium Charitativum at Berlin, which sat under the presidency of Bishop Ursinus, were somewhat discredited by the wilder schemes started by Winkler, one of its chief members the grave political questions debated at Utrecht diverted attention from ecclesiastical matters Archbishop Sharp, who had taken an active part in the correspondence, lt koenig wwii became infirm and the conferences were finally brought to a termination by the death, early in 1713, of Frederick I.On the other hand, there was much to repel anything like close intercourse.For we think it convenient that every country should lt koenig wwii use such ceremonies as they shall think best to the setting forth of God's honour and glory.The former of the two soon after died and the incipient negotiation, which was never very likely to be followed by any practical results, fell through.
