Strictures on Dr. Marsh's Comparative View of the Churches of England and Rome (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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'what impression the' perusal of this passage may have made'on thereader's mind, Lwilhnot pretend to divine. For myself, I will own, that l was'disappointed. From the solemnity. Of the introduction I had been'le'd to expectsome very cogent argument, some express declaraé tion from the word of God, that the. Scripture, to theexclusion of: tradition, was the only rule of Christianity. Such at least would. Have been the manner in which a writer, adopting theriucip'les of the Comparative View}? And confident in* their accuracy, would naturally have proceededi If Dr. Marsh has not done so; because-he 'was conscious that he could not, that consciousness alone might have taught him -to' doubt the truth of his own doctrine. What then has he donep'. Why, nothing to'the purpose. Instead of proving his own asser trifled away his time in an impotent attempt to 'shew, that a passage, which>he has selected from Bossuet, is alpetitio principii. Now, were this to be allowed him, still we should not be'adv'anced one step in the controversy. A logical error in an'.advocate.

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