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
(2ndly. The claim of infallibility for the Church.) It seems, some of
you, Reverend Gentlemen, have had the _temerity_ to preach up, the
infallibility of the Church. _This_, is to be "put down." _You_ are not
to claim _infallibility_ for _your_ Church. Infallibility belongs to the
_Catholic_ Church, which is "built upon a rock," which is the "pillar and
ground of truth," "formed upon the prophets, and apostles, having Christ
for its chief corner stone," with which Church Christ has promised, "to
abide all days, even to the end of the world." Such is the Catholic
Church, according to the _Scriptures_. But, as regards _your Church_,
Reverend Gentlemen, you are to be diligent in teaching, that your Church
is _not_ infallible, is not built upon a rock, _not_ founded upon the
prophets and apostles,--has not Christ for its chief corner stone,--for
if _she had_, she would _assuredly_ be _infallible_. But above all, you
are to teach, either that Christ did _not_ promise, to be always with His
Church, or that, even his abiding presence, with the Church, is _not_
sufficient to make _her_ infallible; at all events, you are to teach (if
you teach anything) that _your_ Church, has _no claims_ to infallibility,
and that she may be involved in the grossest errors, and may be
altogether, misleading and deluding, both you and your flocks. This
shows, what a cuckoo cry, that was, which the vicar of Leeds, was
sometime ago, sounding with _such iteration_, from the housetops, crying,
"HEAR THE CHURCH." This cry, has died away, and I suspect, Dr. Hook will
not _renew_ it, with the return of spring. For why, in the name of common
sense, should we hear, or follow the guidance of this Church of England,
which does not pretend, to be a _sure_ and _infallible_ guide? Or where
indeed, shall we find the Church? In convocation? that has been
extinguished. In synod? She is not permitted to hold one. On the bench of
Bishops? The Bishops, are _notoriously_ at sixes and sevens, all over the
land, both on matters of _faith_, _discipline_, and _ceremonies_.
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