Accusation No Verdict, Or, A Reply to an Anonymous Pamphlet, Entitled "Remarks on Popery," &c

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author, 1823 - 65 pages
 

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Page 56 - Where I am going, you cannot come,' so now I say to you. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
Page 6 - We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not, abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother, is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.
Page 32 - ... years, both of such as come not at all to church, as also of those who coming sometimes thither, do yet refuse to receive the holy Eucharist with us, as likewise of all those who shall either say or hear mass...
Page 34 - She was a lady, fixed and constant in her religion, of singular piety towards God, invincible magnanimity of mind, wisdom above her sex, and admirable beauty ; a lady to be reckoned in the list of those princesses who have changed their felicity for misery and calamity.
Page 55 - ... suppressed, without disturbance and hazard of the good, they may and ought, by public authority, either spiritual or temporal, to be chastised or EXECUTED...
Page 33 - Your life will be the death of our religion, as, contrariwise, your death will be the life thereof.
Page 60 - ... external forms : and that man must possess a no less imperfect acquaintance with the limits of moral duty, who, having once entered into the ministry, thinks that he is at liberty either to omit or to alter at his own pleasure the forms enjoined by the religious society to which he belongs. To suppose that outward ceremonies contribute little towards the maintenance and diffusion of spiritual religion in the world is to suppose, that the constitution of man's nature has undergone a total change...
Page 28 - mote," hatred, a " beam." We sometimes find fault with one who is angry, yet we retain hatred in our own hearts ; and so Christ saith to us, " Thou seest the mote in thy brother's eye, and seest not the beam in thine own eye." ' How grew the mote into a beam? Because it was not at once plucked out. Because thou didst suffer the sun to rise and go down so often upon thy wrath, and madest it inveterate, because thou contractedst evil suspicions, and wateredst the mote, and by watering hast nourished...
Page 37 - Forgery (I blush, for the honour of Protestantism while I write it) seems to have been peculiar to the Reformed . . I look in vain for one of those accursed outrages of imposition amongst the disciples of Popery.
Page 21 - Latimer, and Bradford, to the flames. It was the Creed of those, who at one explosion would have sacrificed the Three Estates of the Realm. It was the Creed of those Insurgents, who in the reign of Charles the First went far towards obliterating the name of Englishmen in the kingdom of Ireland; and who against Protestants exercised cruelties, which an eminent Historian (Hume) asserts would shock the least delicate humanity.

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