Popular Christianity Its Transition State And Probable Development
Popular Christianity Its Transition State And Probable Development
Frederick J Frederick Joseph Foxton
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The horror of Popery that haunts the imagin- ation of the modern Puritan is, however, nothing more than an exquisite sensibihty of the possible success of a rival sect. If the character of the Komish Church is really reflected in her creeds and confessions, and her genius displayed in her dogmatical teaching, it is hard to conceive, in PROSPECTS AND CONCLUSION. 205 times like the present, the source of those pious terrors that distract the minds of "Evangelical" Christians, and wake the echoes ...of Exeter Hall. If, in the language of Dr. Chalmers*, ^ we may expect, without our strenuous exertions, that the progress of Popery " will bury Protestantism, in all its varieties, in one common ruin, " it is hardly consistent in the same writer to describe, as a merely " debasing superstition, " the supposed parent of this great spiritual aj)ostacy. Surely the Pro- testantism of the present age is not of so deli- cate a structure as to fear collision with a super- annuated superstition, and, if it be, it must have inherited some original defect in its constitution fi'om the ancient Churcli.
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