An answer to the rev. G.S. Faber's Difficulties of Romanism. Tr. by F.C. Husenbeth [Défense de la Discussion amicale]. - 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. 1828 Excerpt: ... PART THE THIRD. SUCCINCT REVIEW OF THE "DIFFICULTIES OF ROMANISM." I. I enter with painful feelings upon this last and unpleasant portion of my defence. How sorrowful is the task which remains for me to fulfil! Instead of the pleasure and consolation which I should have found in praising the accuracy, uprightness, and candour of an antagonist, I find myself condemned to point out the faults with which his production swarms; sometimes infidelity in quotations, or design in suppressions; at other times falsehood in allegations: in this place, hostile disposition under the assumed tone of regard and politeness; in that--treachery, speaking the language of simple ingenuousness; and in a third, malevolence and ill-will, evaporating in calumniatory imputations. I have already had occasiou to exhibit several reprehensible defects, and I have sometimes chastised them with severity, because in a religious controversy I regard them as disgraceful prevarications. I shall now recommence a rapid review of the pretended Difficulties of Romanism, and shall more or less lightly visit upon what I find blameable. I have dwelt at length upon the questions which occupy my first and second parts; because they are of general interest to Protestants and Catholics, and are decisive against the Reformation. As to those faults of the author, which I now proceed to notice, as they more personally concern him, I am aware that they may be but of feeble interest to the public. I should on this account have spared myself the unpleasant task of bringing them forward, had I not feared the dangerous impression which they might have made on readers of moderate information. My natural inclination, in accordance with charity, would have led me to throw a veil over them: but the interests of t...