. Errors of the Roman Catholic Church : and its insidious influence in the United States and other countries by the most profound thinkers of the present day, and the history and progress of the American Protective Association (). he Divine Reason hath ever known or can know. Thatit is as necessary to receive and accept apostolic andecclesiastical traditions as the fact of the Trinity ; transub-stantiation, as the Deity of Christ; Roman ritual, as thePersonality of the Holy Ghost. Surely nothing in thehistory of thought has ever equaled an assumption soextravagant. Nor is the difficult k
. Errors of the Roman Catholic Church : and its insidious influence in the United States and other countries by the most profound thinkers of the present day, and the history and progress of the American Protective Association (). he Divine Reason hath ever known or can know. Thatit is as necessary to receive and accept apostolic andecclesiastical traditions as the fact of the Trinity ; transub-stantiation, as the Deity of Christ; Roman ritual, as thePersonality of the Holy Ghost. Surely nothing in thehistory of thought has ever equaled an assumption soextravagant. Nor is the difficult knot cut by the later claim thata Pope has declared these doctrines true, and that he, Rome Must Withdraw, The Roman Catholic Church must withdraw from politicsas a church. As individuals they have the same God-givenrights as any other citizen to religious liberty. As a churchthey must act only in spiritual relations to the municipal andState government. I would as radically oppose any churchthat would attempt to rule State and municipal am not a member of the A. P. A., but I sincerely hope andtrust this and all other questions will be settled at the ballot-box. Rev. B. L. Duckwall, (M. E. Church), Buffalo, [400J. Ridley Writing in Prison. Page 552. TSE ANCIENT HERESIES IN THE CREED OF ROME. 401 speaking ex-cathedra, is infallible. For such infallibility,at the most could only be the parallel of apostolicalinspiration. But even apostolical inspiration was not con-sidered sufficient to qualify the Twelve to declare the factsof the Creed—for it is expressly said that God, who atsundry times, and in divers manners, spoke in time pastunto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last daysspoken unto us by His Son (Hebrews i. 1, 2.) This is agreat and underlying truth ; and it presents the necessaryand unavoidable means adopted by the Supreme Being, toprevent anything that is the mere product of finite reason,from being assumed as of The Faith. It equally forbids
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