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)
Religion
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
I have shown you, as above, what a beautiful Church Christ built, which,
erected on an infallible and imperishable foundation, was to be the
Church of all ages, with the world for its boundaries, and time for its
duration. I have shown you, how your first Reformers, and your Protestant
scriptural Church, had the barefacedness to assert, that this Church of
Christ once fell into error, although _God_ had pledged his solemn word,
that this Church _never should err_; I have also shown you, how this
assertion of Christ's Church falling into error, was the _mere_ ipse
dixit of the _first_ Reformers, and of your scriptural Church; and that
they had both unfortunately forgotten to prove, _when_, _where_, and
_how_, this _infallible_ Church of Christ had fallen _into error_. Now, I
appeal to you, if this was not, a most "extraordinary and presumptuous
movement," of your scriptural Church, on the _intellects_ of Englishmen.
I have also shown you, the characters of the first Reformers, who the
spiritual instructor of some of them was, and what strange, paradoxical,
and new ideas, they advanced, and how, by forgery and lies, they
contrived to palm their new-fangled religious ideas, on the minds of the
people. Really, Gentlemen, was not this, a most "extraordinary and
presumptuous movement," of these Reformers, and of your scriptural
Church, on the _intellects_ of Englishmen? I have likewise shown you, how
your scriptural Church, assures her people, in her Thirty-nine Articles,
that the Scriptures are the only means of their salvation; and I have
also shown you, how the first Reformers and your scriptural Church, have
falsified, and mutilated, those sacred volumes. On the one hand, it is
declared, that the Scriptures are the _only_ means of salvation, and on
the other hand, it is plain, that these sacred volumes, have been
falsified, and mutilated. What, then, are the people to do in this awful
fix? Really, Gentlemen, is not this, another most "extraordinary and
presumptuous movement" of your scriptural Church, on the _intellects_ of
Englishmen? I have shown you, also, with what kind of a book of Common
Prayer, your Church honoured the people. I have shown you, how, _at
first_ it was declared, to be the work of the Holy Ghost; how then, it is
declared _not_ to be the work of the _Holy Ghost_, but the work of
_schism_; how it is then recalled, and adopted, as a most fit means of
devotion for the people. I have shown you, how artfully God's holy Word,
and man's human inventions, are there mixed up together; and that, when
they come in contact with each other, in what strange and paradoxical
situations they place your scriptural Church. Really, Gentlemen, is not
this also a most "extraordinary and presumptuous movement" of your
scriptural Church, on the _intellects_ of Englishmen? Our Saviour
declared, that his kingdom was not of _this_ world; and hence, neither
he, nor his apostles, endeavoured to propagate, and support his doctrine,
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