Excerpt from The Afterpiece to the Comedy of Convocation As some who may read these pages may not have seen the Comedy, it may not be superfluous to state that it is the work of some Reverend, or Irreverend, member Of the Roman Communion, that it has for motto, from St. Gregory N azianzen, Give me leave to be merry on a merry subject, that it is dedicated to The Bishops Of the pan-anglican Synod, and that in it are represented Very Reverend Deans, Ven erable Archdeacons, and Reverend Doctors and Proc tors, Of the Church of England, in Convocation assem bled, gravely debating the question Whether, in that Church, it is heresy to deny the existence Of a God, and as gravely coming to the conclusion that it is not; and afterwards, in private conference, trying to turn the claims Of their own Church, as compared with that Of Rome, into ridicule. There is nothing, perhaps, very extraordinary in all this, considering the source from which it comes. But that a journal Of the stand ing of the (new York) Nation'should endorse not only the wit and humor of the work, but its logical conclusiveness, is extraordinary. If the Na tion were as well informed On the merits Of the con troversy between the two Communions as it is on matters Of literary criticism, it would not need to be told that while one half of the logic Of the Contedy does not rise to the dignity of Sophistry, ' the other half draws its conclusions from false premises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.