Hidden works of darkness; or, the doings of the Jesuits

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...speaks of him as a heretic, taunts him with the close approximation of his teaching to that of the one Church, and exhorts him to return to the unity of Rome. This, it is needless to remark, affects in no degree the question as to Cheney's secret connexion with the Holy See. A rash, braggart, noisy, but sincere enthusiast, like Campian, would scarcely be entrusted with the secrets of the order to which he belonged. The publication, by the Romish Church, of his correspondence with Cheney, after his execution, was probably designed to throw dust into the reader's eyes, so as to prevent him from perceiving the real state of the case. We have already shown, that the Pope had an extensive, secret, and dispensed agency among the Protestants of England at this period; and such being the case, it is in the nature of things impossible, that a man like Cheney should not have had a share in that agency. In conclusion, the retrograde and Romeward movement, which took place in the Church of England during the reign of Elizabeth, so exactly served the purposes of the Papacy, that we infer it to have been the work of the concealed Papal agency which we know to have existed within her bosom. The evidence, primd facie, that we have been able to collect in support of this conclusion, is now before the reader; it is as follows: Two of the steps of that movement, the assertion of the insufficiency of Scripture, and the low, cold heresy of Pelagius on the freedom of the will, were propounded by Bishop Cheney, the tutor, friend, and associate of Campian the Jesuit, and himself also a professed Papist at his death, in 1568. A third step was taken by Whitgift and Bancroft, some twenty years afterwards; the jus divinum of the bishops. We have traced this also indirectly to Rome, th...