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
But some of you reverends, will perhaps reply, really, Sir, it is too bad
of you, thus to lower our Protestant Prayer-book, for we Protestants all
know, how many beautiful, and admirable parts there are in that Church
Prayer-book. Most Reverend Gentlemen, before I answer this objection, we
must quietly trace back our steps to the Spanish chemist. Of course, I
have forbidden myself the application of his wonderful, chemical
operations to your Church. But then, you yourselves can apply them, and
judge whether there really is, any analogy or not, between his chemical
operations, and the spiritual works of your scriptural Church. Well,
then, I have shewn you, what a beautiful Church God and Jesus Christ
first built; and I have shown you the sure, and infallible foundation of
that Church, which was to be perpetuated from age to age, with the world
for its boundaries, and time for its duration. I have shewn you, how, in
the sixteenth century, arose a body of men, the most audacious, and
strange spiritual chemists, that the world ever beheld, whether you
consider the spiritual instructor of some of them, or whether you
consider the strange doctrines they advanced, and the barefaced manner,
in which they defended, and propagated their new-fangled ideas. I have
shewn you, how these strange spiritual chemists, wished to demolish God's
infallible Church, how they cut it into pieces of universal and damnable
idolatry, how then, they put these various parts into the sublimatory
glass of falsification, and mutilation of God's word. You then saw, how
these spiritual chemists, and their followers, have been trying in vain,
for these three hundred years at least, to collect, and unite, and form
these various parts of Christ's Church (which according to their bare
assertion, had fallen into error), into a more perfect, and durable form,
than that which God had first given it. You have seen, how these
Protestant children of the Reformation, honoured England with a
Protestant Prayer-book, the formation of which, almost defies all the
power of credibility; and were there not Acts of Parliament to show
this, it would be an insult to any Englishman, to assert such a thing in
his presence. Now with all these facts before you, is there not a great
analogy, between the outrageous conduct of your Church, and that of the
Spanish chemist, who destroyed his master, with the design of raising
him, to a more perfect and durable state, than that which God had first
given him?
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