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time m the pages of the Monthly Repository * * As a writer aad a theologian , he has no claims on our esteem . His style bespeaks a pen unpracticed even in the cor * reetness of English composition : and a divine , be he of what church
he may , who in the nineteenth century , and in civilized Europe , appeals to the famous clause in 1 John v . 7 ? as authentic scrip , ture , and who confounds biblical
criticism with tradition ^ f must be pronounced either ignorant or bigoted in the extreme . Mr . Gandolphy seems to be a sincere dnd zealous Catholic who shrinks
not from the avowal of his principles , nor fears to follow them to their proper consequences . € i Nothing , " he remarks to Dr . Marsh , " was ever more foreign from
my thoughts , than to compliment you , for appealing to an authority , whilst arguing with the Dissenter , which the Dissenter does not admit . I should first endeavour to convince him of the
necessity of admitting that authority ; which was my real motive far inscribing to you the Sermon on the inadequacy of the Bible to be an EXCLUSIVE RULE OF FAtTH . For
Admit but the principle of authority , and you must either be a Catholic , or what you have defined a generalized Protestant : 5 , 6 .
The author ' s * meaning , no doubt , is , that the principle of church authority being admitted , consistency requires the person embracing it to be a Catholic ; and that , for such an one there rs no safe resting-place between submission to the Romish see and
u generalized Protestantism . " This language is , nevertheless , inaccurate ; the generalize ^ Protestantism which he reprobates , and- which consists ^ in a rirm ' -111 > I r . ' . - ¦ - - ' - -
? Vol . VII . 189 184 , and VIII . 204 , 3 O 5 » t Pp . 31—87 .
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avowal of the belief that Jesus is the Messiah , and that the scri ptures are a sufficient rule of faith and practice , being perfectly irreconcileable to tbe ecclesiastical authority of which he is the ad . vocate . He afterwards observes ^
" You must , either admit that the poor of the establishment do not require the Common Prayer Book to keep them in the religion of their fathers , and secure them against " the delusions of false interpretation , ** whilst they have the Bible , or acknowledge that another
evidence , another authority or clue , is necessary , and that is , what is styled in the Catholic church tradition , th « word unwritten in the scriptures . Else , whence do you make a distinction of orders in the hierarchy of your church ? Else how do you justify the
practice of baptizing infants who have no actual faith ? Else how do you dispense with the obligation of washing one another ' s feet f Else why do yonx keep holy the first day of the week instead of the sabbath day ? Else why do you
ever venture to eat blood or strangled meats ? Else how do you justify in a minister of Christ the possession of gold and silver and rich livings ? Else how do you justify the tendering and taking of oaths ? " 7 , s .
These questions certainly merit the attention of the Margaret Professor . To some of them , we suspect , he will be rather perplexed in giving an answer which shall be wholly independent on the authority of a , church that either cannot or does not err .
« c You affirm , adds Mr . Gandolphy , c < that the religion of the church of England is the most correct system—the correct system of religion , ( Inquiry , p . 11 . Serm . p . 33 , ) the true system of
religion , ( p . 4 , ) but that those who have the Bible alone cannot find it , ( Inquiry , pages 4 , 8 , 11 , 27 , ) therefore this most correct , this correct , this true system cannot be found by the Bible alone ?* 9 , JO .
In the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth pa ^ es , the letter-writer reminds Dr . Marsh , that although
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Review .- —Gcmdolpfa / 8 Second Letter to Dr . Marsh . S 3 i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/47/
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