Bishop Hughes Confuted : Reply to the Rt. Rev. John Hughes, Roman Catholic Bishop of New York
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But I would advise you to strike at the fountain or cause of the evil, which is God, who endowed man with reason and knowledge — who has given him such a depraved disposition to use them, and who has com- manded him to give " to every man a reason for the hope that is in him " — and who thus invites all men, ** Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord." Go up, like a man, to the cause of the evil which you deplore, and you are at once in conflict with your Creator. The next idea suggest...ed by what you say about " private reason " is the utter inutility of the Bible. There are but two principles " authority and rea- son " by which we can know its meaning. Au- thority is in the hands of your church to be exercised as she wills : to read the Bible and reason about it leads to hell. Where, then, is the need of the Bible At all, save a few copies for the Bishops and inferior TO BISHOP HUGHES. 75 clergy which they may occasionally consult for the purpose of finding out chapter and verse of such texts as these : " Thou art Peter," " Confess your sins one to another." Sir, on your principles there is no need of it ; and, hence, in purely Catholic countries you dispense with it.
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