He afterwards knew him better and loved him.
The toss thus given Isaac Hecker by Bishop Hughes's catapult of "discipline" had the good effect of throwing him again upon a full and perfect and final investigation of Protestantism.

With what immediate result is shown by the Seabury interview already related, and with what honesty of purpose is shown by the following words written the same day: "If a low passion usurps the place of pure love, if a blind prejudice usurps the place of Catholic truth, he who informs me of it, though he had been my enemy (if enemies it is possible for me to have), I will receive him as an angel from heaven, as an instrument of God.

My honor, my consistency, my character consists in faithfulness to God's love, God's truth, and nothing else.

Let me be but true to Him--how then can I be false to either man or the world?
It is Him who knows our secret thoughts that we should fear (if fear we must) and obey." Thus it was Anglicanism that engaged Isaac Hecker's last efforts to adjust a Protestant outside to his inward experience with the Holy Spirit; and this for a reason quite evident.

That body pretended, then as now, to be the Catholic Christian Church, assisting men to union with God by a divinely-founded external organism, but not demanding the sacrifice of human liberty.