Author: John Poynder

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-06-24

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781332893157

Excerpt from Popery in Alliance With Heathenism: Letters Proving That Where the Bible Is Wholly Unknown, as in the Heathen World, or Only Partially Known, as in the Romish Church, Idolatry and Superstition Are Inevitable It is still, however, with the most anxious and sincere desire for the best, and highest, interests of the Romish laity, that I would entreat them to consider how far the unqualified deference paid by them, not merely to aman like themselves, but to one whom the Holy Scriptures charac terise as eminently the man of sin, and whom all history agrees in proving to have remarkably deserved that title, from the beginning - how far, I say, such implicit deference to human authority can consist with the allegiance due to the only Lord and Saviour, who is the head over all things to his church; how far the erection of tradition into an equal rank with the express revelation of God, can consist with the exclusive reverence, which is claimed by the Almighty for the inspired oracles of divine truth; and whether the single fact of these records of eternal life being kept from the people at large, to this very hour, by the authority of any man, or set of men, does not, of itself, demonstrate, beyond all dispute, an unsound and indefen sible state of things, which dreads and deprecates inquiry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.