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IJi $ ye been reading only to conyirtce myself still raore that I am obliged to believe what my church proposes to me 11 " The giant Prejudict rules the human mind with a more than iron sway . Such cases are . entitled to our pity and Compassion * .
I $ I ) all conclude with reminding the young reader of the difference between the Romish church and the Reformed church , on the subjects of scrip tyre and of
trendition . The council of Trent says , concerning tradition , that " The truth and discipline of the Catholic church are comprehended , both in the sacred books and in the
traditions , which have been received from the mouth of Jesus Christ hjms € ? lf , ' or of his apostles , and which have been preserved and transmitted to us by an tin i liter rapt . ed chain and successor * ! ! ' The
doctrine of the Reformed church is —r 7 * kat the Holy Scrip ture containcth aH things necessary to salvation ; so that whatsoever
* It i « hut jus t ice however to declare that the above extract , as also
the extract in the Preface , are taken from Reflections addressed to the Rev . «/ sft aivteins > published in the year * i %$ and that the Rev J . Berington has stsce macUr the ametiie hoiio * able , in a printed paper , dated Feb . 13 , 1801 , now in the hands of the Ca holic clergy «~> from tthich it appears , ro use its own
wont * , that he has * submitted all his religfous opinions and writings to the judgment of the ap € fc : toli » : aj See of Rome ; revoking and condemning every benteuce and passage in them contraiy to , r 4 c rogatory front , the defmitioiis and decision * the general councils , Roman pontiffs and orthodox fathers professing himself sorry for the offen e and scandal which these have caused , an 4 promising ro avoid the same in faturf > , ; 1 'WSce the Rev . Dr . Milner ' s i < etter , g to a Prcbqadary JFourth edition ^ printed at Cork , * by the , pcnni 9 » ion olf ** jtoM * s * ii& 7 i iu A& —
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is not read therein , nor may be proved thiieby , is not lo be re * quired of anv man that it should be believed as an aitide of faith or be thought re quisiteor necessary to salvaii «» n . " This line of demarcation , drawn between the two churches , is too palpable for misrepresentation ' -to disguise , or sophistry to annihilate . Let no Protestant lose sight of the distinction . And upon the r s ng generation , in the . n ligiuus world , it ought to he deeply impivs > ed , for it . is of high importance that their tender minds > hruld be "imbued with a l- > ve of the Hol y Script it res - winch ??? a he zvt * c unto 4 . ' aafoatiop * By the rxerciM * of the understanding in ih
interpretation of the pure word oT God — the truth , as it is in Jesus \ must be atUiined—and the truth as it is in Jemtb , will always be the doctrim ticcnrditg to gt . dli > ess . Free lnquiiy is in strict alliance with genuine Chiistiamty . t 4 Some , I know , a filet to believe ( says the venerable Bishop of Llandaff ) that as the restoration of letters was
ruinous to the Romish religion , so the further cultivation of them Cvill be subversive of Christianity itself of this there isr no dan .
ger . It tnay be subversive of the reliques of the church of ¦ R ome ) by which other churches arc still polluted , of pcTsocutions , of anathema * , of ecclesiastical domination over G «» d \ s heritage , of ^ all the siiiy -outworks winch the pridi , tht- superstition , the
knavery t > f mankind have erected H'oun'i the citadel of our faith ; out the citaded itself ' is founded on a rock—the gates of * hell cannot prevail rtgmftst h—its masterbuilder is Goo—its beauty will
be found ineffable , and its stieng ^ impregnable , when it shall be freed
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Correspondencebetweenthe Rev . J . Beringtenandthe Rev . J . Evans . 143
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/7/
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