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i ¦ -. ^ l RT . I . The Su bstance of q Sermon preached &t the Blessing of tfte Cyf / jpt lje Chapel of St . Chad , in tfa Town of ^ irv ^ ingh gm ^ on Sujidtiy s December 17 , 18 O 9 . By the Right Rev . JDr . Milittr , JUsfcop of Castqbalay m Cilicia , V . A . F . S ^ A . ^ SfC Birmi ^ giiftii , printed and . wl'd- § pld also by Wilkie #$ d Co . . I ^ oik ^ mi . ; . 8 v ; o . pp .-49 . ( Concluded from page 143 . ^
The reveferiLd prelate hastens to meet an objection against listefting to tbe chaiich of Rome . ' ( 32 . ) " Some pcrAOQs / ' who ape not of his communion , may urge , " If we must listen to a church , we will libten to our own , being
persuaded thai ours is th ^ ev true church . " But Dr . M . replies : * ' You cannat adopt this rule , without abandoning the one by which you haye hith-erlo been guided , 'w hetjher thb be yoyr own private spirit or your own private interpretation of the Bible . No : you cannot lay a fresh
foundation for your religion , without subverting that on whjich it has hitherto rested . It was precisely hy rejecting all living authority , and by . appealing to a dead letter , ( wbich inigepious 'men , when they are pressed , Ga ^ tuirn to any sense they please . ) that your founders , Luther , att < ji C ^ i vi ix , and Crannies , and Knox , and the rest of * he ftrst pcformers , of the sixteenth century , founded their resj )*» ctive religions / ' This , unquestionably , is a fair and ^ acute retort upon that
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class of Protestants whom it concerns ; those , we msan , wjho really claim and exercise , ^ q d those who recognise ^ an iiqthority which they profess to have renounced .
Our author ( 32 , &c . ) discusses the quesition , Which i $ the twe church of Christ ? We wish that he had considered it ofcly in reference to the Christian Scriptures , which speak of that jchujqch kas being ^ without spot op wrinkle or any such thing . " It wpiUd
also Ijave giyen us pleasure to ftpd him endeavouring to show , tJiat the church in whose behalf , he claims this distinction , has none of those marks whioh the N ^ w Testament describes of . au aposjtftte church . * He has chosen dift ^ rent ground , and on this we must prepare to meet him .
" What sort of a churcb , " Jie > asks , is it ^ my brethren c ^ f a different communion , that ypu . declaim your belief in , whien you repeat the profession of faith which we have received by tra - dition from the apostles ^ and
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^ STILL FX « A 5 D TO PRAISE , YET NOT AFRAID TQ SLAftXE . " JPwit .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/33/
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