Popery

The Puritan, the Lord Grey of Wilton, a very hopeful gentleman, blasted in the very bud.

The Papists, Watson and Clark, priests, and Parham, a gentleman, the atheist Sir Walter Raleigh, then generally so believed, though after brought by affliction the best schoolmistress to be, and so died, a most religious gentleman.

This treason was compounded of strange ingredients.

The hardest part was figuring out where to go.

Alas! could we the dangerous rule believe, Whom for their teacher should the crowd receive? Since all the varying kinds demand respect, All press you on to join their chosen sect.

Although but in this single point agreed, Desert your churches, and adopt our creed! We know full well how much our forms offend The burdened Papist and the simple friend.

Him who new robes for every service takes, And who in drab and beaver sighs and shakes.

He on the priest whom hood and band adorn Looks with the sleepy eye of silent scorn.

And ask a Talmudist what ails the modesty of his marginal carry, that Moses and all the prophets cannot persuade him to pronounce the textual chetiv.

For these causes we all know the Bible itself, put by the Papist, must be next removed.

as clement of alexandria and that eusebian book of evangelic preparation transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel who finds not that irenus epiphanius jerome and others discover more heresies than they well confute and that oft for heresy which is the truer opinion nor boots it to say for these and all the heathen writers of greatest infection if it must be thought so, with whom is bound up the life of human learning, that they writ in an unknown tongue, so long as we are sure those languages are known as well to the worst of men, who are both most able and most diligent to instill the poison they suck, first into the courts of princes, acquainting them with the choicest delights and criticisms of sin.

And perhaps did that Petronius, whom Nero called his arbiter, the master of his revels, and the notorious ribald of Arezzo, dreaded and yet dear to the Italian courtiers.

What Paul's doctrine was, so far as it concerns us to know, may be learned with sufficient clearness from his writings.

Of this gospel it is plain the whole of Popery is a dreadful perversion.

And from the nature of the case we remark in conclusion, it is manifest that any spurious doctrine whatever is at variance with Paul's preaching, so that these cavils will avail them nothing.

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The great Bishop Butler was exposed to it for complaining in his visitation charge to the clergy of Durham of the disgraceful neglect into which they had allowed their fabrics to fall.

The most deadly shaft leveled against John Wesley was Bishop Lavington of Exeter's book, The Enthusiasm of the Methodists and Papists Compared.

The visions, the trances, the ecstasies of the Methodists reminded good Protestants of such Catholic mystics as St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross.

The reasonableness of Protestantism, whether Anglican or non-conformist, was contrasted with the excited and hysterical manifestation of religious fervor in Popish countries and the fervor of the Wesleys and their followers was especially unpopular on this account.

The Puritan, the Lord Grey of Wilton, a very hopeful gentleman, blasted in the very bud.

The Papists, Watson and Clark, priests, and Parham, a gentleman, the atheist Sir Walter Raleigh, then generally so believed, though after brought by affliction the best schoolmistress to be, and so died, a most religious gentleman.

This treason was compounded of strange ingredients.

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