Two Addresses: One, to the Gentlemen of Whitby, Who Signed the Requisition, Calling a Meeting to Address the Queen, on the Late (So Called) Aggression of the Pope: and the Other, to the Protestant ClergyRigby, N. (Nicholas)
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Two Addresses: One, to the Gentlemen of Whitby, Who Signed the Requisition, Calling a Meeting to Address the Queen, on the Late (So Called) Aggression of the Pope: and the Other, to the Protestant Clergy
Rigby, N. (Nicholas)
Catholic Church -- England -- History -- 19th century; England -- Church history
Sensible Englishmen, when these Reverends, would uncharitably excite you
against your long much injured, and unjustly abused Catholic fellow
creatures, just say to them, "Reverend gentlemen, you tell us that the
Scripture (the book of eternal life and of truth), teaches CHARITY TO ALL
MEN! why, therefore, should you wish us to exclude the _Catholics_ from a
share of that _universal_ Charity?" And in the next place tell them, "the
Pope and all his spiritual crew are either from God or not: if they are
not from God, all their human, and popish inventions will come of
themselves to naught, and why, therefore, should you wish us Protestants,
to break our charitable heads about _them_. But if they are from God, how
can either you or we fight against them, unless you arrogantly presume,
that you can conquer the Almighty! At least, so teaches the sacred
Scripture, for does it not thus plainly, and emphatically say, 'And now
therefore I say to you, refrain from these men, and let them alone, for
if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught; but if it
be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to
fight against God.'" (Acts v. 38, 39.)
As I have been obliged to range in my address, over an extensive
_spiritual_ and _temporal_ moor, and as I have had to bring down, and bag
so much black game, of course my Address, will be of rather an extensive
nature. It is, indeed, now in the press, but of course its appearance
will, in some measure, depend upon the expedition of the printer, but I
will promise you, that it shall be got out of the printer's hands _as
soon as possible_, and then, it must appeal to the judgments of sensible
and unbiassed minds, as to its merits, and demerits. In the mean time, as
Englishmen always wish to know the text, I will give you the two texts,
which I have chosen for the titlepage of my Address.
"I would you had been there to see
How the light blazed up so gloriously."
"And then in naked Majesty,
With brow serene, and beaming placid light,
Came truth."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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