A Vindication of the Reasons for Withdrawing from the Hibernian Bible Society; In Answer to Charges of Misrepresentation, &C., Contained in an Anonymous Letter (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. 1823. Excerpt: ... competent for me, as a plain man, to allege, that for my own part, I had no taste for this kind of composition, and that, as far as I could judge, these rhapsodies were not likely to promote the edification of the very persons for whose sole benefit I had become a subscriber. I am no enemy to the circulation of the Scriptures--In common with Bishop Marsh, (since my opponent has done me the honor to associate my name with his) I objected only to the pernicious mode of that circulation; to principles engrafted on it, to practices connected with its detail, to penny associations and domiciliary visits, which left the minister a cypher in his own parish; to erroneous opinions inculcated; to enthusiastic pretensions set up; to absurdities delivered with solemnity of face; to all this, --sublimated in speeches, Is it enough to say, " crave the assistance" of these associations, p. 7b, and you may then direct them as you will; when the members do not acknowledge the Pastor's authority--when they are taught to consider the work as depending " not merely on the ordinary interference of Providence," and themselves as entering into the " immediate service of the Most High God"--when certain of them are held up for imitation, (whom Dr. Kidd has irreverently called "termagant Divines." Pref. to Paterson's Tracts, ) as acting in defiance of those persons, "in opposition to whose sentiments, nothing but a strong conviction of imperious duty could have induced them to act."--M. Extr. 10.--when all the lead the Pastor can take is, to be foremost in those measures which these self constituted committees have themselves previously resolved on. In p. 7t, the Letter-Writer says, it is " a Romish usurpation of authority" to object to these associations. In p. 75, he is inclined...