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. 1824 Excerpt: ...gained from the enemies of the church. This supposition, however, is somewhat hasty. Could nothing but concessions from the archbishop make the court of Rome consider tbem in that light? Would they not think it a great triumph, that they had obliged Du Pin's party to give up the letters as a token of their submission, ...
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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. 1824 Excerpt: ...gained from the enemies of the church. This supposition, however, is somewhat hasty. Could nothing but concessions from the archbishop make the court of Rome consider tbem in that light? Would they not think it a great triumph, that they had obliged Du Pin's party to give up the letters as a token of their submission, and defeated (he archbishop's design of engaging the Gallican church to assert its liberty, by throwing off the papal yoke? If Dr. Wake made concessions, where are they? And if these were the trophies, why did not the partisansof Rome publish authentic copies of them to tbe world? Did the author of the Confessional ever hear of a victorious general, who carefully hid under ground tbe standards he had taken from the enemy? This, indeed, is a new method of dealing with trophies. Our author, however, does not, as yet, quit bis hold, he alleges that the French divines could not have acknowledged the catholic benevolence of the archbishop, if he made no concessions to them. This reasoning would be plausible, if charity toward those that err, consisted in embracing their errors; but this is a definition of charity, that, I fancy, the ingenious author will give up, upon second thoughts. Dr. Wake's catholic benevolence consisted in bis esteem for tbe merit and learning of his correspondents, in his compassion for their servitude and their errors, in bis desire of the reformation and liberty of their church, and bis propensity to live in friendship Id. ib. p. Iixxt. t Id. ib. p. Ixxlx t See below, note - ami tbe letters subjoined, No. XI in which toward the conclusion, he intimates his desiraof an union between the English and Gallican churches, and observes, that the difference, in most points, between them, was not so great as to render a reconc...
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