Anomalies in the English Church No Just Ground for Seceding; Or, the Abnormal Condition of the Church Considered with Reference to the Analogy of Scripture and of History (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART lI. THE PAPAL SUPREMACY VIEWED ACCORDING TO THE ANALOGY OF H1STORY. It would be foreign to the object of the present treatise to enter at any length into the grounds on which the Roman Church rests the claims of the papal supremacy, a subject which is only accidentally connected with the one now before us. These claims, and the grounds on which they rest, have been amply refuted by history and the witness of the early Church. Of this Roman controversialists are fully aware; though, when the question is fairly reduced to one of historical evidence, they will, with the greatest effrontery, deny or evade the facts themselves. But as the object of these remarks is not to convince them, but to warn and protect others, the reader is referred to that array of historical evidence, irrespective of the denial or equivocations of Romanistsb. See page 3. b For a general view of this evidence, those who have not the time and opportunity for a fuller investigation of the subject, cannot do better than consult Mr. Palmer's Treatise on the 56 ROMAN AND ULTRA-PROTESTANT DISPUTANTS. And here we may notice the difference in the mode pursued by the Romanist and ultra-Protestant respectively, in a controversy of this kind, ?the evasiveness and denial of facts on the part of the one, and the illogical inconsistencies of the other. The one, having to deal with history and with facts, have no alternative hut to distort or deny them; the other, sheltering themselves under a principle of their own assumption, the unlimited right of private judgment, are led to discard it the instant it tells, as assuredly it must, against themselves. 1t requires little observation to enable us to see that, in their maintenance of or opposition to authority, the generality of persons are actuated b...