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
Again, you often warn the people, against the idolatrous practice of
praying to the Saints, and assure the people, there is _only one_
mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ. And yet, on Sundays, you have no
difficulty, in recommending the sick, to the prayers of the faithful.
But, why should _you_ do _this_, when according _to you_, there is _only
one_ mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ? If _you_ can thus ask the prayers
of the faithful, without injuring the mediation of our Saviour; why
cannot the _Catholic_, ask the prayers of the Saints, without injuring
the mediation of Jesus Christ? O! but you will say, the Saints, and
Angels cannot hear our prayers. Well but does not the Scripture tell us,
"that the devil goes about, like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may
devour," and does not our Saviour say, "there is more joy in heaven, over
one sinner doing penance, than over ninety-nine just?" It appears,
therefore, the devils know, and hear what is passing upon earth, and why
should not the saints and angels of God? Nay, it is evident, they _must_
know and hear things, which are passing upon earth, otherwise how could
they rejoice _in heaven_, on the conversion of sinners _on earth_?
But, as you boast so much of the admirable, spiritual treasures of your
prayer-book, and of your scriptural Church, just tell me, most Reverend
Gentlemen, why they have never yet, been able to produce a single saint?
The Scripture, tells us, that a tree, may be known from _its fruit_. And
yet, among all the rich spiritual treasures, of your prayer-book, and of
your scriptural Church, for these three hundred years, you have _never_
yet produced a person, who, on account of his virtue and piety, has been
honoured by posterity with the name of _saint_. Nay, so great is your
poverty in _this respect_, that your Church, has been obliged to _steal
Catholic_ Saints, and barefacedly insert _them_, in your _Protestant_
calendar. Really most Reverend Gentlemen, your scriptural Church, is of a
very strange texture. I have shewn you above, how remarkable she has
always been for forgery; I have also shewn you, how she unjustly robbed
the poor of their just rights, and how, she has endeavoured, by all means
possible, to rob us of the honourable name of Catholic; and how, she has
stolen many of our great Catholic Saints, and presumptuously inserted
_them_ in her _Protestant_ calendar. Really, Gentlemen, may I not exclaim
with the poet--
"Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder!"
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