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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. 1895 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII Continuation of the same subject. Examination of the system of Fundamental Points. If we had not shown how the Reformation, after having exhausted all other means of defence, was compelled by its own nature, to take refuge in the system of fundamental points this system would have appeared only in the light of an arbitrary opinion, and it would have been with difficulty understood what motives had influenced the Protestants to embrace a doctrine, not only absurd in itself, but also incompatible with their own maxims; a doctrine, in short, which cannot be true, unless Christianity is false, and which ends inevitably in the toleration of atheism. And in the first place, to justify the charge of inconsistency which I make against the Reformers, let us recollect that the Scriptures are, according to them, the sole rule of faith.1 They ought then to prove that the Scriptures clearly establish the distinction of fundamental and nonfundamental points, and that they no less clearly specify what is fundamental and what is not so. Now this is what they have never been able to do, although they have often been invited to do it. Never have they produced a single text which in its natural and true sense, even in 1 On the 21 st June, 1870, in the debate on the Education Act, Mr Vernon Harcourt quoted from Dr Newman's Grammar of Assent, published that year, the following passage: 'Bible religion is both the recognised title, and the best description of English religion. It consists not in rites or creeds, but mainly in having the Bible read in Church, in the family, and in private. Now I am far indeed from undervaluing that mere knowledee of Scripture which is imparted to the population thus promiscuously.' Mr Vernon Harcourt went on to say,' That was a descr...
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