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. 1916 Excerpt: ... during the time of Christ, or during the life of the apostles, or at any time during her history, been exclusively the one or the other. She has ever been, and must ever be, protestant against all error, in order that she may be catholic and inclusive of all truth. Those occupying the central ground are not appealing ...
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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. 1916 Excerpt: ... during the time of Christ, or during the life of the apostles, or at any time during her history, been exclusively the one or the other. She has ever been, and must ever be, protestant against all error, in order that she may be catholic and inclusive of all truth. Those occupying the central ground are not appealing in any sense for a via media compromise settlement. The sacrifice of conviction to a compromise level is not asked, because such a sacrifice would be unworthy and weak. The contention of those of the central ground is that the Church should be made and kept comprehensive. When the extreme high party would seek to impose upon the whole Church their theories of orders based upon an exclusive interpretation of the apostolic succession, those of the central position become earnestly protestant, and intensely catholic. They protest against contentions which brand those who do not accept these interpretations as "disloyal," "traitors" and "the friends of schismatics." They become ardently catholic in their appeal for the love that thinketh no evil, and for the claim of a Church comprehensive enough for both a Bishop Brooks and the Bishop of Fond Du Lac. When, on the other hand, the extreme low party will hear nothing of priests and apostolic succession claims, and ancient catholic practices repudiated in the Reformation settlement, and would fain force these brethren into Rome, calling them "apists" and covenant breakers, then the party of the central ground again becomes both protestant and catholic and pleads for a stay of execution. These men, they say, are sincere and devoted. They stand by the stake which they consider essential to the survival of the tabernacle, and keep hammering it firmly in the ground...
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