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specifically the tendency of Bishop Blomfield's influence, was to raise the Clergy to the mental stature requisite for such an encounter with the giant growth of man's intellect, and to train them to the use of that spiritual armour which alone can avail to the "pulling down of strong holds," to the "casting down of imaginations, and of every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God," is another fact which invests the history of that period with uncommon interest.

Forasmuch, then, as God, in the spiritual as in the natural world, works through a gradation of consecutive operations, every successive growth and display of life in the progress of His purpose being the fruit of an antecedent development of the same life, it did appear to the author of these pages that a retrospect of the Church's history during the Episcopate of Bishop Blomfield,—forming an important link between the past and the future of the Church,-might be of no small service. Having undertaken it under the influence of these views and convictions, he now sends forth the result of his labours, albeit not insensible of the contrast between the loftiness of his theme and the humble character of his performance, yet with the earnest hope and fervent prayer, that it may not prove altogether useless to those who have a mind to "discern this time."

Roehampton, June 1857.

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