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
Most Reverend Gentlemen, after reading the above letter, (and mind, the
writer informs you, that what he there asserts, is proved by acts of
parliament,) after reading the above letter, can it for a moment be
thought strange, that England should have left the Catholic, and embraced
the Protestant faith? Nay, is it not more strange, with all the above
_incontestible_ facts before us, is it not, I repeat, more strange, that
there should have been left, a single Catholic, or a single fibre of
Catholicity, in this country? And had it not been for the providence of
God, this would certainly have been the case; but the Scripture
beautifully informs us, "that to them, who love God, all things work
together unto good." (_Rom._ viii., 28.)
But, Most Reverend Gentlemen, I have ranged over so much spiritual
ground, and have been so busily occupied in bagging black game, that I
have nearly forgotten the famous text, "extraordinary and presumptuous
movement," which your meeting were so kind as to give me to preach from.
Really, I must not forget _my text_, otherwise you will begin to
conclude, I must be a very _bungling_ preacher. Let us, then, now return
to my famous text. I think, that you must have been already convinced,
from what I have stated, in the first part of this address to you Clergy,
that your scriptural Church, has been for a long time, making a most
"extraordinary and presumptuous movement," on the _pockets_ of
Englishmen. By _now_ recapitulating what I have just said in the latter
part of this address, I think it will be also plain, that your Church has
been making, for a long time, a most "extraordinary and presumptuous
movement" on the _intellects_ of Englishmen.
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