A Testimony Against Popery and Puseyism [2 Letters] (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... preter of Scripture. The fourth principle of this modern Popery is the denial and renunciation of the capacity, right, and duty of private judgment. The fifth unscriptural maxim is the reserve to be maintained in relation to the doctrine of the Atonement, and the adoption of the Popish views of Justification. The doctrine of " reserve " has been thus appropriately poetized, "Reserve the doctrine of the cross, The wily casuist cries, --'Tis done, but oh, eternal loss, Meanwhile the sinner dies." These fearful departures from truth and honesty have roused some of the Prelates and Clergy; and the Bishop of Durham observes in his Charge, "the effect of principles either expressly laid down by these Oxford writers, or collected as a natural inference by their followers has been, not merely to recommend a variety of antiquated forms and ceremonies, but to uphold them with such earnestness as to threaten a revival of bygone superstition. The necessity of fasting, the placing of candlesticks, is now treated as a matter of importance, and a superstitious predilection for the emblem of the cross is manifested." Yea, the cross is set up over the communion table, and in Birmingham, where the clergy "are deeply tainted," a gilt one has been introduced, "before which a Rev. Gentleman bends his knee and bows according to the practice of the Roman Catholic priesthood in celebrating the mass." This practice, as also the placing and burning of large candles at noon-day, has been adopted for some time. But for these and similar practices the reader is referred to the British Magazine, for the truth of the Bishop of Durham's remarks, about the " earnestness with which antiquated forms and ceremonies are upheld." As a specimen of this Popish trifling, a correspondent...