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ROMANISM AND EPISCOPACY*.
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The idea of this work is excellent . We were struck with it on first seeing the advertisement ; but it was not till we had read the book itself that we became fully aware how comprehensive is its plan , and how admirable a clew it furnishes to the intricacies of all established religions , not excepting that of which the author is an honoured minister . This work is , in fact , an exposure of the
evils of establishments , and all that is necessary for a logical overthrow of the church of England is a fair extension of the principles of this book to the one other case of which it does not treat . If Dr . Whately would take his own volume for a text-book , and practise upon it the rules of his other volume , on logic , the
result must be , to a spirit so candid and liberal as his , that he ; would resign his archbishopric into other hands and preach the gospel in a plain coat , black or blue as it might beseem . The candour and liberality of our author being granted , —and whd questions either ?—let us proceed to establish the other half of our position .
We hope that none turn away from this book because the word Romanism is conspicuous in the title-page . Many are weary of hearing of whatever bears any relation to the pope . The Catholic question being settled , they think all connected with Romanism is over and gone . They do not want to be convinced that there is folly in holy-water , and wax-lights , and Latin-prayers , and incense , and have decided long ago that there is neither profit nor
pleasure in monachism . They think that if O'Connell would but agitate himself into his grave , the matter of his faith might drop ; or that if it must be still brought before our eyes occasionally , it is only helping to keep it alive to write about it . All this is suggested to some persons by the word Romanism : but if they will have patience just to look at the table of contents , they will find that Judaism , Mahometism , Paganism , are nearly convertible terms with Romanism as regards the matter of this book . Human
nature as acted upon by religion , and acting upon religion , — under whatever aspect , is our author ' s subject : and we find the brazen serpent and the cross , the sword of the Prophet and the crosier of the Pope , the dark rites of Paganism and the mysteries of Romanism , all brought to bear on the dangers and abuses of Protestantism , and made to serve as an elucidation of the
iqtricacies of the heart of man . Our author stands on firm ground when he contends that * The Errors of Romanism traced to their Origin in Human Nature . By Richard Whately , D . D . London ; Fellowes . 1830 . i
Romanism And Episcopacy*.
ROMANISM AND EPISCOPACY * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/21/
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