Things Set in a Proper Light in Answer to a Letter From Ta to a Friend
Things Set in a Proper Light in Answer to a Letter From Ta to a Friend
Jacob Norton
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misery. " He adds, " and every church, in proportion as it departs from the purity of christian truth in principle and prac- tice, becomes thus an engine of ruin to mankind. '* To these observations, as correct, I readily assent. But in what way or by what " engine" did these churches display their " infernal cunning, corrupt the earth, and effect the ruin of mankind, " but by their religious creeds and establishments ? To this source, in a great measure at least, are these dreadful events to b...e traced. And this is the very sentiment which I suggest- ed in my seasonable thoughts, and particularly in the passage quoted by my opponent, in p. 8 of his letter, and which ques- tion he there opposes, or seems to oppose, as a very dangerous error, and to vindicate the creeds and establishments of the Romish church, and other corrupt churches, as " pure, evan- gelical, holy truth. '' But " I do not perceive how thus saying and unsaying a thing is better than saying nothing at all. " (f, however, I am to consider the gentleman as abiding by what he has last said upon tbe subject, as stated in the above quo- tation, I must consider him as vindicating the cause of truth, however he may not extend it against the erroneous doctrine of human creeds.
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