A LETTER

TO THE

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

BY THE

BISHOP OF EXETER.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

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Recent Publications of the Bishop of Exeter.

Charges delivered at the Triennial Visitations in 1836, 1845,

and 1848. 8vo. 2s. each.

Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter, on the Observance of the Rubric in the Book of Common Prayer. 12mo. 6d.

An Ordination Sermon, preached in the Cathedral Church of

Exeter. 12mo. 1s.

A Sermon preached in behalf of the National Society; with a
Pastoral Letter to the Inhabitants of Plymouth. 12mo. 6d.

A Letter on the Missionary Exertions of the Church. 8vo. 6d.
A Reply to Lord John Russell's Letter to the Remonstrance of
the Bishops against the appointment of Dr. Hampden. 8vo. 1s.

Letter to the Archdeacons of the Diocese of Exeter, on the proposed Office of Scripture Readers. 8vo. 1s. 6d.

A Letter to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury on

the Case of the Rev. James Shore. 8vo. 1s.

Gorham v. Bishop of Exeter. A Revised and Correct Report of the Speech of Edward Badeley, Esq., on the Appeal before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, on the 17th and 18th of Dec., 1849. 8vo.

Sermons preached at the Visitation of the Bishop of Exeter in 1845. 12mo. 6s. 6d. (Published by Command.)

A LETTER,

&c.

&c.

MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,

I ADDRESS Your

Grace under circumstances the most unusual, and with feelings the most painful. In the whole history of the Church of England I am not aware that anything of a similar kind has ever before occurred;-that the Primate of all England has ever before thrown himself upon the judgment of the world as the writer of a controversial book: if he have, the statements contained in it must have been so manifestly accordant with the doctrines of the Church, that they carried with them the universal assent of Churchmen. Your Grace has been pleased to descend from the exalted position in which your predecessors were wisely, I think, content to stand. You have deemed it your duty to deal publicly with "a a subject," of "which" you say that it "has recently become a matter of distressing controversy ❞—and you will not think it strange if one of the parties in that controversy shall animadvert on the manner in which you deal with it. Furthermore you say that you "think it right, therefore, to call attention to what you have written concerning the grace of Baptism."

My Lord, I obey your call. I am about to give my atten