Excerpt from A Letter Respectfully Addressed to the Rev. J. H. Newman: Upon Some Passages in His Letter to the Rev. Dr. Jelf
As to the present authoritatwe teaching of the Church of Rome, to judge by what we see of it in public, I think it goes very far indeed to substitute another Gospel for the true one. Instead of setting before the soul the Holy Trinity, and Heaven, and Hell, it does seem to me, as a popular system; to preach the Blessed Virgin, and the Saints, and Purgatory. If there ever was a system which required reformation, it is that of Rome at this day, or in other words, (as should call it) Romanism or Popery. P. 5.
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