The Right of Private Judgment in Religion Vindicated Against the Claims of the
The Right of Private Judgment in Religion Vindicated Against the Claims of the
John Pierce
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D. Duxbury. On supremacy and infallibility. Mat. Xxiii. 8, 9. 1813. Pres. John T. Kirkland, D. D. LL. D. Cambridge. On the principles of the Reformation. Rom. Xiv. 22. 1817. Nathaniel Thayer, D. D. Lancaster. On the power of prejudice. Mat. Xiii- 16. The claims of this proud hierarchy, as they have in a great measure ceased to terrify, have accordingly lost much of their former interest. Blessed be God, the alarms, which agitated the breasts of our venerable and scrupulous ancestors, and which ...had not subsided, at the establishment of this Lecture, are now known only in history. The thunders of the Vatican have long since spent their rage ; and, even in its neighbouring atmos- phere, they are regarded, as artificial and harmless attempts to imitate the war of the elements. The Inquisition, that reproach upon human nature, which, for several centuries, held u in durance" vile" the bodies and souls of its subjects, and exerted without restraint its despotick power over their reputation, their property, and their lives, is at length suppressed, and leaves its recent supporters to wonder, how such an engine of tyranny could have been so long maintained.
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