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Anti-Popery, Or, Popery Unreasonable, Unscriptural, and Novel
AntiPopery Or Popery Unreasonable Unscriptural and Novel Author:John Rogers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Original Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Hatchard and Son. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. Dublin: Curry and Co. Cambridge: Deighton and Co. Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Religion / Christianity / Catholic Religion / Christianity / Protestant Religio... more »n / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: from Babylon, when the pure Hebrew language was not known to all, care was taken to make the revealed will of God known to all, by translating from the pure Hebrew, into the language more popularly known. Means were employed to enable the people to know the meaning of the Divine record, and to understand the words of eternal life. See Nehem. 8 : 8. Arlicle 2. It is worth while to inquire the corrupt motive the papal kirk has for being in love with the singularly absurd and cruel custom of speaking only to the outward ear, by using the Latin language, a custom at war with common sense and good feeling. Without pretending to mention all the motives, I will mention five. 1st. To keep the people ignorant, and therefore dependent on the priesthood. " Ignorance is the mother of popery, ay, and the daughter too; ignorance being of popery, both mother and daughter, cause and effect." See section last. 2d. To have a bond of union between the many priests, binding all the members of the priesthood in one huge confederation, in one great alliance, one mighty league, in one body wieldy, tractable, governable ; a body separate and apart from the people, alien to the laity in language and interest, and opposite and hostile to popular right, and the spread and dominion of libe...« less