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Church has , Jbeen protected against j | ie evil which has befallen the Germans by its articles ,, its , cburcn gpyerumeni , and its liturgy , and yet confesses that this evil hMst ^ k a iE ^ s ^ me to ' l ^ sfitttle ' ^^' sort 6 f ¦ comparison between our moderh theologians and those Ei % ! i 5 lrFreethinkers whose aim ¦ is td ridicule' Christianity and its history , and of whom one had the audacity to enter into a calculation of its j > robable duration , and to fix , if I mistake not , the twentieth century as the time
in which it will cease to , exist . What is the Episcopal Church benefited by the controul which she exercises over the faith of heir members and her clergy , when , in this land of orthodoxy , the numbers of the church are constantly diminishing , and Unitarian , Methodist , Quaker , and Independent congregations are daily rising' up and increasing their numbers ?"—P . 21 . Mr . * Rose had reproached the Protestants , of Germany with claiming for themselves the liberty to alter their religious system , as the progress of knowledge furnished them with juster views ; and , assuming , according to the usual practice of orthodox writers / that these juster views are merely arbitrary and
wanton changes of opinion , charges th ^ m with exalting their own / reason above the authority 6 f iM word of God . To this Dr . Bretschneider makes an admirable reply , applicable not only to Mr . Rose , ' but to every one in whose mind Christianity is so identified with the articles of his own church , that to attack the oae is , tQ him to be an infidel to the other .
" Mr . Rose fias entirely misunderstood the point to which the words of Schrl ^ fi refe % ^ or Christianity , or the divine cbil ^ tB- 'tf ^' m ^ Blii |^ Cfei £ ^ jil ! U system of the church , a thing to bfe careftfl ^^ i ^|| fe < f frdii * € tir ^ liiiiity . The doctrine of the church , ^ fefc # t ^^ hdn ^ etibalor art ^ vkhe ^ fa M &it lng- else than the declaration of a ce . Aain mitifBer of 0 ftri #$# ns ; fiod the ^ undewtded the doctrine of the Biole , atidWhai ^ { t&i&i < tin&&'Col ^ 63 $ ^ tf what a qettain chufdh thohg'ht at a eertaih tknti respecting the setose of . that divine rMtMtiok- iiohich w contained iti ike Scriptures , Let not : Mr . Ro $ e imagine thdt t ; his ii ; a modern view of the matter ^ for : the Augsburg Confession , the Catcjchisnis' of Luther , cind the Articles of Schmalealde , do not pretend to be tno than
aiiy thiri ^ ^ histdrical documents , shewing in what manner the teachers of tfe Church understood and expounded the Scriptur 6 at H given time . ( PormJC ^ nc . epit . jp ; 572 . ) The clergy are then fully entitled to , examine th ^ se opmions ahd interpretations ; ana , believing the authors of rth « m to be fallible men , they could not do otherwise consistentl y with their reverence fbr divjne " truth . The two things which Mr . Rose confounds , the : doctrinal system of the ctLurch and the doctrine of the Bible , are widely different indeed .
Let mm prbduce , if he can , a single' passage of the Old or New Testament , in wT&fcli isTOtind the word Trinity ; Persons in the Godhead , SatisfMtiofo , ArbU trWjjt ; < £ l § ciifa and Reprobation , Hereditary Sin , &c , or a passage in which it is jieci ^ rea that the Son is the second person in the Godhead ^ the Hply Ghost ^ he ^ hiW'I f t ^ e Father the first ; or that the Son and Holy Ghost are Qpd equal f ^ tod ' procfeedihg from the Father ; or that Jesus has made satisfaction for slh ; . wthkt mankmd , by Adam ' s fall , have lost the use of JtneirrJfeasqn and freewill . ^ All this is nothing more than the church ' s syateiia jtesjj ^ twffthe tlecjarations of Scripture , a proof of the manner in which she mterpretea the Bimq at the time when these doctrines were laid down , and oTtHe inferences
which she drew from certain passages which are'founfl iri'it f ^ fe to > examine Whether' sli ^ Ms right or ^ vrohg in so doing is not onl y a ^ h ^ b ^ adiW . ^^ % 27 ^ - ^ 0 / "¦ - ¦¦ ' ¦¦¦ ' " ¦ ' -T . - : - ' ' •; : * > ' rv : ;) . ^ if ^ •" Mr . Rose found himself at a loss for some ground on " which to jtt&ffiFjf the MMijri ^ W from the Rotnish , and yel A < &T the right ) i& $ lij ^^ Chri ^ lian ^ to ex ^ beife Uh& . ( Baine : fteedom on thbse WmS of faitH Whicll ftie fii % ^ riteffbv ) M » eM- « feiBerVfedl *'^ aSfe -, f « litarw ] .
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832 ' Review .- —State of' Religion in Germany .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 832, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/48/
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