The Church of England, as to Her Excellencies and Defects; With a Plan of Ecclesiastical Reform - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. A DISSERTATION ON THE OXFORD "TRACTS FOR THE TIMES,' SHEWING THEIR ANTISCRIPTURAL NATURE, AND IRRELIGIOUS AND IMMORAL TENDENCY. "BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE, EVEN AS THERE SHALL BE FALSE TEACHERS AMONG YOU, WHO PRIVILY SHALL BRING IN DAMNABLE HERESIES, EVEN DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM, AND BRING UPON THEMSELVES SWIFT DESTRUCTION. AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS; BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF. AND THROUGH COVETOUSNESS SHALL THEY WITH FEIGNED WORDS MAKE MERCHANDISE OF YOU: WHOSE JUDGMENT NOW OF A LONG TIME LINGERETH NOT, AND THEIR DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT." 2 PETER II. 1--10.--"WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED WHEREFORE REBUKE THEM SHARPLY, THAT THEY MAY BE SOUND IN THE FAITH--NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES, AND COMMANDMENTS OF MEN THAT TURN FROM THE TRUTH." TITUS I. 11--15. Error is a poisonous plant, that grows and flourishes, both in an indigenous and exotic soil. In some regions it runs wild, and attains to great luxuriance; in others, it is more domesticated and restrained from its natural tendency to rankness and exuberance, by judicious laws and restrictions. In all cases, however, it is the spontaneous produce of the fallen heart of man. Ever since the defection of our first parents, a restless desire has prevailed in the bosom of their descendants, to "eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; " though it has been prohibited to them as well as their progenitors: and thus affecting to be as gods, and "wise above what is written," "they have been lifted up with pride, and have fallen into the condemnation of the devil." f These remarks will satisfactorily account for the origin of heresy and error, and all the mischievous effects which they have produced ...

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