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The fatal error into which the peculiar character of the English / Reformation threw our Church, has borne bitter fruit ever since, -- I mean / that of its clinging to court and state, instead of cultivating the people. / The church ought to be a mediator between the people and the government, / between the poor and the rich. As it is, I fear the Church has let the / hearts of the common people be stolen from it. See how differently the / Church of Rome -- wiser in its generation -- has always acted in this / particular. For a long time past the Church of England seems to me to have / been blighted with prudence, as it is called. I wish with all my heart we / had a little zealous imprudence.