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
And now, allow me to quote the _first_ part of the sixth Article of your
Church, and then, tell me _what_ the _people_ are to do, to save their
souls, and how your Scriptural Church, _is ever_ to be raised again, to a
new spiritual life. "Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to
salvation: so that, whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be approved
thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as
an Article of the Faith, or to be thought requisite or necessary to
salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture, we do understand those
Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was
never any doubt in the Church."
Now this part of your Article, assures us, in the strongest manner, that
the Holy Scriptures, contain all things necessary for salvation, that
they are the sure palladium of a Christian, and his title-deeds to
eternal life; and it also says, that in this sacred volume, are to be
included all the books of whose authority, was never any doubt in the
Church. Now, it is also plain from what I have advanced, (and find me a
person who can overturn by _solid_ argument what I have advanced,) it is
plain, I repeat it, that your Church has _both_ falsified the text of the
Scripture, and expunged from her _Protestant_ Canon, many books, whose
authority and divine inspiration, were held by antiquity in the greatest
veneration. Now, most Reverend Gentlemen, do tell me what the people are
to do. On the _one_ hand, your Church tells the people, there _is no_
salvation _without_ the Scripture: and on the _other_ hand, your Church
has falsified the text, and also expunged from her _Protestant_ Canon,
many _inspired_ Books of the Scripture. Really, can you obtain the
possession of property by _corrupt_ and mutilated title-deeds? Certainly
not. How, _then_, are your people to obtain eternal life by your _false_,
and mutilated title-deeds of the Scripture? Really, most Reverend
Gentlemen, if the prejudices of my popish education do not strongly
deceive me, your Protestant mutilation of the Scripture, and your Sixth
Article, are pregnant with the most _paradoxical_ consequences. O how
justly may I apply to _your_ Scriptural Church, the observations which a
distinguished minister of the Church _of England_, applied to the
operations of the Bible Society; these are his words: "Surely, it is
enough to make a Christian's blood run cold, to think of the sacrilegious
presumption of a Society, which dares thus to tamper, and trifle with the
revelation of the Almighty, and dares publish to the heathen, and attempt
to pawn upon its credulous supporters, these schoolboy exercises of its
agents, as the Sacred Word of God! It is the circulation of such
translations as these, that, more than once, at the meetings of this
Society, have been blasphemously compared to the miraculous gift of
tongues. And such a system is supported, and such comparisons applauded
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