This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...do you not, therefore, " err, because ye know not the Scriptures?" (Mark xii. 24.) And why is this so? Because your priests have " taken away" from you " the key of knowledge;" (Luke xi. 52.) and, ignorant themselves, they lead you into error. Oh, truly, " they be blind leaders of the blind; " and if the blind lead the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...do you not, therefore, " err, because ye know not the Scriptures?" (Mark xii. 24.) And why is this so? Because your priests have " taken away" from you " the key of knowledge;" (Luke xi. 52.) and, ignorant themselves, they lead you into error. Oh, truly, " they be blind leaders of the blind; " and if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the " ditch." (Mat. xv. 14.) Finally, the adoration of the Host was not ordained in your church, until it was commanded by Pope Honorius III. A.D. 1216--(Greg. ix. Decret. lib. 3. Tit. xli. c. 10. De celeb, miss.) And now permit me to conclude with a very few words addressed to your common sense; and, in the first place, just consider this--surely, to tell you that you eat flesh, when you feel that you eat bread, is such an imposition upon your senses as never before was attempted; and he who will believe it cannot hesitate to believe any thing; for he gives up blindly, to authority, the evidence of the surest guides which God has given him, for his direction in common matters in this world. This has, therefore, been very properly said, by the celebrated Dean Swift, to be a " doctrine, the be" lief of which made every thing else to be unbeliev" able."--Other miracles bear witness to the senses, and thus prepare the mind for the reception of the divine truths which are revealed, for which they testify, and which are above the power of sense or of reason, without revelation, to acquire any knowledge of; but this commences with silencing the evidence of the senses altogether; nay, further, commands us to believe against their testimony. And what then is the matter of faith thus forced upon the mind?--a doctrine not only contradictory to this evidenc...
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