A General Defence of the Principles of the Reformation; In a Letter to the REV. Joseph Berington - 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. 1788. Excerpt: ... conclude they hope with more respect, as well as on more solid grounds, that notwithstanding.all our weak surmises and conjectures, if it had been requisite, we should all have been directed to it without the possibility of error. And if we will but reflect on the narrow boundaries of our own apprehensions, and the unfathomable wisdom and knowledge of the Almighty, I can but think that this is the fairer argument. Whatever is required to be known, will always be made manisest to the humble and sincere inquirer who "afketh in faith, nothing wavering and if we receive it not, it is " because we ask amiss. "(aj This the scriptures repeatedly assure as in terms infinitely more clear and unambiguous than any you produce in support of the unlimited authority of the Catholic Church in matters of Religion. These sew lines convey at once my ideas of the celebrated question which formerly was so much canvassed, concerning fundamental and non-fundamental Articles. That part only of religion is sundamental to each man, which he has been enabled to know: And he will be answerable only for the use or the abuse of the means he has had, and not be judged according to the discoveries he has made. Even the whole Christian Church seems to have for a while been ignorant that the Gospel was to be preached to the Gentiles, although it had been declared in the most express terms that language could supply; (b) and remained in this error till the Conversion of Cornelius, when a new miracle was requisite to make them embrace the truth, (c) Did this make the faith of God without effect r"(d) If we argued only upon the inscrutable ways of providence by what seemeth best to human reason, we might perhaps inser that heaven might have adopted even a more secure method of making known ...
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