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"PUSEYISM"

(FALSELY SO CALLED),

NOT A POPISH BANE, BUT A CATHOLIC ANTIDOTE.

No matter what th' offence

Be 't great or small-the cry is "Puseyism;"
The word now stinks within the very nostrils ;
Salt fish is scant to 't-'tis bandied everywhere ;-
The very markets fling it in your face.

Does one prefer a sea-bream, these, to loaches?
Straight cries the vender, whose adjoining stall
Holds loaches only,-" Slight! my mind misgives me ;
Surely this man is catering-for what?—

A Puseyite, forsooth!" Has any brought him
Anchovies, and needs leek to dress them with,
(And your green leek is pickle for a king,
A very royal food I grant ye, sirs.)

The herb-woman, with eyes askew, regards him :
"And what," says she, " you want a leek? friend, do ye?
Marry, come up! you're not for Puseyism,

I hope!"-See MITCHELL'S Aristophanes, vol. ii. p. 217.

“Nec quicquid tamen proficit exquisitior quæque crudelitas vestra; illecebra est magis secta; Plures efficimur quoties metimur a vobis ; semen est sanguis Christianorum.”—Tertull. Apol. ch. 50.

"But do your worst! 'tis all to no purpose; you do but attract the world and make it fall the more in love with our religion; the more you mow us down, the thicker we rise; the Christian blood you spill is like the seed you sow, it springs from the earth again, and fructifies the more."-Reeve's Translation.

(FALSELY SO CALLED,)

NOT A POPISH BANE,

BUT A

CATHOLIC ANTIDOTE.

BY

A PRIEST OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH.

Second Edition, Enlarged.

LONDON:

JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET,

AND 78, NEW BOND STREET.

MDCCCXLIX.

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PREFACE.

THAT reverential tone of mind, miscalled " Puseyism," which has in view no other object than joining in holy union Evangelical Truth and Apostolical Order, has been for many years familiar in our mouths as any household word; but, as is not unusual, from being little understood and grievously misrepresented, it is associated, in the minds of most, with no other ideas than those of rampant Popery, vain superstition, and Medieval darkness. If the humble writer of these pages shall succeed in convincing any one that instead of being a virulent and deadly poison, "Puseyism" (falsely so called), is a wholesome and effectual restorative, his object will be fully answered.