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Catholicity in its relationship to Protestantism and Romanism
Catholicity in its relationship to Protestantism and Romanism Author:Ferdinand Cartwright Ewer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THIRD CONFERENCE. Catholic Church, Perfect And Imperfect. Leaves Room For Play Of Mental Activity. Catholicity The " Yea " Of Christianity ; Protestantism The... more » " Nay." True Cause Of Protestant Reformation. ProtestAntism, Diversity Without Unity; Rome, Unity Without Diversity ; Catholicity, Unity In Diversity. Certain attacks having been made by the pulpit and the press upon the author of these Conferences, subsequently to the delivery of the First and of the Second, he stepped out in front of the rostrum, and made the following remarks before beginning the Third Conference, viz.: I have come up to the consideration of this topic not to attack a single human being living. I am, on the other hand, criticising a system. The whole issue is too solemn, too lofty, too vital in itself for either side so far to forget itself as to lose temper. I am attacking not Protestants, for I have many respected and many dearly loved friends and near relatives who are Protestants; but I am attacking Pro- testant/'. I am attacking not Roman Catholics, for I have loved and respected friends who are RomanCatholics ; but I am attacking Roman/m. I speak, gentlemen, not at my own motion, but in obedience to your call. Hitherto, abstracts only of these Conferences have appeared in the secular press. Indeed who could expect that any daily paper could find space, in this busy age, for six long addresses, each four solid columns in length ? But it results as a fact, that the public outside of this building cannot adequately ascertain the ideas of this counter-Reformation. Before me indeed is a great sea of heads ; but you, gentlemen, are nothing in comparison with the vast public. They cannot comprehend what it is that has banded together the 17,400 of the nobility, gentry and clergy of the "English Ch...« less