Essays on Various Subjects, Vol. 2 of 6 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Essays on Various Subjects, Vol. 2 of 6Christian will express in his words a character of zeal and love (p. 9 and becomes doubly inter esting from seeing how, after having, through one hundred and fifteen pages, called Catholics in every line idolaters, and us of the priesthood cheats, you feelingly and movingly complain, with what injustice the Church of Rome charges her younger sister, the Protestant Church, with heresy! (p. Little was I prepared for such gentle, fondling expostulation as this, little could I have thought that you held the right calling of names to be so exclusive a monopoly, or that you cared about being considered a heretic by idolaters, or claimed any compassion at our hands. But, Sir, allow me to say, that in the publications of Catholics, or in their sermons, you will not find the name of heretic applied to Protestants, however we may consider their doc trines heretical, - and observe there is a great difference between the two while you in every page of your work call us personally idolaters, and that were any one among us to call down the fire of heaven - as you have done - upon any of our fellow-subjects, we should say to him, as was said to others of old Ye know not of whose spirit ye are.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.