Popery : the Foe of the Church And of the Republic.
The book Popery : the Foe of the Church And of the Republic. was written by author Van Dyke, Joseph S. (Joseph Smith), 1832-1915. Here you can read free online of Popery : the Foe of the Church And of the Republic. book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Popery : the Foe of the Church And of the Republic. a good or bad book?
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In either case the child is doomed to endless woe. Nor is this a mere fancied difficulty. No genuine Romanist can by possibility possess satisfactory evidence that either he himself or his child is validly baptized. And yet he is taught to believe that without this baptismal regeneration salva- tion is impossible. The legitimate result of such teach- ing is to produce a race of the most abject slaves, crouching, spiritless. The dying Papist, as he receives penance and ex- treme unction, feels i...n his inmost soul that all his hopes for time and eternity are suspended on the in- tention of the priest, who, " sitting in the tribunal of penance, represents the character and discharges the functions of Jesus Christ." * To heaven, to hell, or to purgatory, as best suits his fancy, he can send the de- parting spirit. However deep may have been its guilt, however black its crimes, however polluted its thoughts, the priest " can confer dying grace" and "open the gates of paradise:" he can send the most devout Romanist to endless despair, eternally beyond the reach of hope.
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