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
Well, Most Reverend Gentlemen, you see your scriptural Church, has now
hurled the whole of Christendom, into the vortex of universal,
abominable, and damnable idolatry, and either involved herself, in this
sweeping deluge of abominations, or committed suicidical destruction on
herself; but, _strange_ to say, she has _charitably_ saved us benighted
Papists, from these abominable, and universal waters of idolatry, as
Pharo's daughter, kindly saved Moses from the waters of the Nile. Now,
_how_ your scriptural Church as by law established will contrive to
gather together again, and unite all the various parts of this
universal, spiritual edifice, just destroyed by her hands, I am at a loss
to determine. If _she really can_ collect, unite, and form these various
spiritual parts, into a _more_ perfect, and durable edifice, than _God
Himself_ had made it, I shall _then_ begin to think, that she is invested
with powers, which _even God Himself_ does not possess. But by _what_
spiritual art of chemistry, is she to perform this wonderful, and
_superhuman_ operation? If she has recourse to _the Scriptures_, she will
_there_ learn, that God had built this spiritual edifice on an
_imperishable_, infallible, and incorruptible foundation. And surely, for
her sake, God will not _contradict_ Himself; and if she has recourse to
her thirty-nine articles, they have already annihilated her. O poor
scriptural Church! thou hast often made _sad_ work with _other_ Churches;
but _at last_, alas! thou art in _sad_ straits thyself. O! how thou
remindest me of the man, who
"Halting on crutches of unequal size,--
One leg by truth supported, one by lies,
Thus saddled to the goal, with awkward pace,
Secure of nothing but to lose the race."
Well, but you will say, this immense spiritual edifice _must_ for the
sake of the _salvation_ of mankind, be _re_-built. Should I offer _my
officious_ services, to assist in this pious work of reconstruction, your
scriptural Church might perhaps say, I destroyed _more_ than I built.
Well, she could not, even then, justly complain of this; for _she_ has
_just_ cut into pieces, demolished, and annihilated the _whole_ of
Christendom, with her destructive weapons of universal, abominable, and
damnable idolatry.
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