Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, or, Centuries of oppression, persecution and ruin . l facts, and yet claims tobe one. Alas! for the man who knows no Christianity that doesnot involve transubstantiation. The impossible dogmamust be repudiated, and the worlds hope, having beenjoined to it in unlawful bans, by unauthorized and usurping priests, must go with it. 0 ! France, France ! St. Bartholomews Day made theeover to infidelity ! The French mind was too much cultivatedto believe in this dogma. Protestantism, sent of God to DOCTRINE OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION. 53 tlie relief of awakening intelle
Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, or, Centuries of oppression, persecution and ruin . l facts, and yet claims tobe one. Alas! for the man who knows no Christianity that doesnot involve transubstantiation. The impossible dogmamust be repudiated, and the worlds hope, having beenjoined to it in unlawful bans, by unauthorized and usurping priests, must go with it. 0 ! France, France ! St. Bartholomews Day made theeover to infidelity ! The French mind was too much cultivatedto believe in this dogma. Protestantism, sent of God to DOCTRINE OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION. 53 tlie relief of awakening intellect, was strangled on thatblack day. Infidelity became inevitable. Inlidelity gaveFrance np to anarchy, and the lustration of many revolu-tions has not yet washed out the stain. Such are the necessary results of this doctrine. Itmaterializes religion, it perverts the ministerial ffice, itdegrades the atonement, it vitiates worship, it gives thepriest a fictitious and dangerous consequence in his owneyes, and in the eyes of the devotee, and it tends, amongcultivated men, to Beatrice Cenci. All Catholics must make themselves felt as active agentsin the daily political life in countries where they live. They ;must penetrate wherever possible in the administration ofcivil affairs. Pope Leo XIII. Every true Catholic is bound to think and act as hisPriest tells him. A Catholic, majority will forbid liberty ofjworship and try to forbid liberty of conscience. [55] John Anthony Froude. CHAPTER VII. ENOCH MATHER MARVIN, LATE BISHOP OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH. CHURCH UNITY—ROMANIST THEORY. £:For it hath been declared to me of you, ray brethren, by them which are of the houseof Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now, this I say, that every one of you saith,I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? WasPaul crucified for you ? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I bap-tized none of you, but
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