My Experience of the Catholic Apostolic Church (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1880. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... my eeasons for retiring from the ministry of the Catholic Apostolic Church. Having been engaged in the ministry of the Catholic Apostolic Church in one of the seven churches in London for more than twenty years past, I think it my duty, on retiring, to explain my reasons for so doing. I never was a convert to the apostolic faith, but was trained up in it from a child, and I received it as true on the authority of those who were over me. For some years before I was in the ministry and still more afterwards, I was glad of any opportunity of conversing with those who took an interest in theological subjects; and in order to be prepared to answer the questions they put to me, I found it necessary to make myself acquainted with other forms of faith. This I did, not with the slightest idea that they were true, but solely to enable me to expose their weak points. In this I think I was rather successful, and until recently I never felt any difficulty in replying to any objection made against the Apostles' doctrine; but at last, like Bishop Colenso, I met my Zulu, and his objections were put in such a manner as to lead my thoughts and investigations into a totally different channel, and I found my position not so tenable as I formerly thought it. I still think the Apostles' faith more scriptural than the Romish or Orthodox Protestant, but I regard the scriptures now from quite a different point of view. E Following the example of those above me in the Ministry, I had been calling on people to exercise their reason on the truths revealed in Scripture, and complaining that they did not make use of their common sense in reference to religious subjects; but I did not suspect that I had not followed this rule myself to its legitimate consequences. I had been complaining that ...