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) «* ' In > i what respects , my Lord , does orthodoxy differ from infalupwaty ? Did not both make their first appearance in the dark ages ; and have ,, they not travelled the same course together , friends and allies , till Protestantism caused a separation between them , and thence rivals and mortal enemies ? In origin , in genius , in disposition , in arrogant pretension , and in decked hostility to the dearest interests of man , they bear to each other too striking a similitude to escape the most careless observer . The style of their language proves them to have been taught the same lessons in the same < . school *
Infallibility raising- high her head with its triple crown , in a conclave of Popes and Cardinals , says proudly , ' I am she who cannot err : my counsels and decrees proceed from the immediate inspiration of God , as is proved by the declaration of Christ to his apostles , Lo 1 I am with you always , even to the end of the world / Protestant Orthodoxy , standing between Luther and Calvin , backed by the Council of Nice , b y some superstitious fathers of dubious testimonv . and a lono * arrav of civil authoritiessavs . with equal f
, pride , I have discovered the secret things of God ; I hold the keys that unlock the mysterious doors of heaven ; I have explored the profundities of hell , and passed the empyrean threshold of the skies ; I alone know the true path to salvation ; I have traced it in my Athanasian chart ; I have described it in my Westminster confession ; and all who do not follow my guidance must perish everlastingly / Infallibility , burning with ire , to hear of such an invasion of her own imagined rights , exclaims , * I am the true queen of the Church founded on Peter ; I hold the keys of heaven and of hell ; what I bind is bound ; what I loose is loosed ; and from me there is no appeal . I
absolve from all sin ; I release from the den of purgatorial fire ; my unction is the seal of the children of God , and their passport to the kingdom of heaven . ' € Thou the true queen of the Church ! ' replies Protestant Orthodoxy , with disdain ; ' thou art no queen , but the false usurper of a title and dominion to which thou hast no legitimate claim . The church of Christ is not founded on Peter alone , but on the twelve apostles , whose doctrines I rightly understand , and whose representative behold in me . ' ' In thee I ' retorts Infallibility—' monstrous presumption ! In thee ! an apostate and rebel , who hast involved thyself in the aamnable guilt of schism , and art lopped off as a rotten branch from the true vine , fit only to feed the
flames ! ' " - —Pp . 38—40 . " The religion of the gospel , my Lord , has one uniform and consistent character : ' Jesus Christ is the same yesterday , to-day , and for ever / But can this be predicated either of orthodoxy or infallibility ? Have they not , as it suited their interests or necessities , assumed i variety of forms , insomuch that the orthodoxy and infallibility of one age are not the orthodoxy
and infallibility of another age ? The infallible decrees of one Pope or Council are set aside by the infallible decrees of another Pope or Council ; and these , in their turn , are discovered to be as far from the true infallible as any of their predecessors . So is it with orthodoxy . It assumes different forms in different periods ; and in one church takes an attitude and a drapery to which it has no similitude in another . A belief in the five Calvinistic
points is , with one , the grand criterion—with another , a belief in ' the thirtynine articles / Transubstantiation and the supremacy of the Pope form part of the orthodoxy of a third . " Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo ? Hon . " Say , while she changes thus , what chains can bitid These various forms , this Proteus of the mind ? Francis . —Pp . 40 , 41 . *'
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 736, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/8/
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