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Article THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION AGAINST FREEMASONRY. ← Page 14 of 16 →
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
that our contemporaries have written on the Allocution , and therefore Ave turn to one of the most remarkable books , Avritten by one of the greatest , purest , and most widely beloved of Anglican priests , Avhich places , in its true light , the
overweening pretensions of the Papacy at this present movement . We allude to The Church of England a Portion of Christ ' s one Holy Catholic Church , and a Means of Restoring Visible Unity an Eirenicon , in a Letter to the Author of " The Christian Tear , '
by E . B . PUSEY , D . D . Dr . Manning , the Eomish Archbishop of Westminster , AVIIO gives himself the airs of a Bossuet , with the sublime inattention to obvious facts of an American journalist , tells us that such belief as the English Church admits of leads , as a matter of course ,
to infidelity . He says , — "It is an inclined plane , on which , if individuals may stand , generations cannot . " Dr . Pusey replies that generations " have stood for a long while " on this faith . " But his book contains another and a terrible answer to the charge of giving occasion to unbelief . He brings
out , with that concentration and force Avhich his theological knoAvledge enables him to apply , the two characteristic points on AAdiich the school to AA hich Archbishop Manning belongs are pushing consequences to an extent at which ordinary people , though they may have been told of them again and again ,
still feel aghast , every time that the matter comes before them . One is a point of worship , the devotion to the Blessed Virgin : the other is a point of dogmatic theory , the extent of the infallibility of the Pope . On these t \ vo points they are fearless of paradox , and ¦ the more extreme and startling the consequence ,
the more they seem animated to welcome it . The doctrine of Infallibility is UOAV stated by Avriters of great authority , so as not only to cover Avith the Divine infallible sanction the " civil princedom of the Pope , " " the whole doctrine about which , " Ave are told , " as to its methodical expression , has been
commenced , matured , and perfected by Pius IX ., " but to imply , in principle , a perpetual Divine inspiration giving infallible truth to every public word , at any rate , to every formal declaration of the Pope , on matters in any way affecting the Church ; such , for instance , as Ms late Allocution about Freemasonry ,
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
that our contemporaries have written on the Allocution , and therefore Ave turn to one of the most remarkable books , Avritten by one of the greatest , purest , and most widely beloved of Anglican priests , Avhich places , in its true light , the
overweening pretensions of the Papacy at this present movement . We allude to The Church of England a Portion of Christ ' s one Holy Catholic Church , and a Means of Restoring Visible Unity an Eirenicon , in a Letter to the Author of " The Christian Tear , '
by E . B . PUSEY , D . D . Dr . Manning , the Eomish Archbishop of Westminster , AVIIO gives himself the airs of a Bossuet , with the sublime inattention to obvious facts of an American journalist , tells us that such belief as the English Church admits of leads , as a matter of course ,
to infidelity . He says , — "It is an inclined plane , on which , if individuals may stand , generations cannot . " Dr . Pusey replies that generations " have stood for a long while " on this faith . " But his book contains another and a terrible answer to the charge of giving occasion to unbelief . He brings
out , with that concentration and force Avhich his theological knoAvledge enables him to apply , the two characteristic points on AAdiich the school to AA hich Archbishop Manning belongs are pushing consequences to an extent at which ordinary people , though they may have been told of them again and again ,
still feel aghast , every time that the matter comes before them . One is a point of worship , the devotion to the Blessed Virgin : the other is a point of dogmatic theory , the extent of the infallibility of the Pope . On these t \ vo points they are fearless of paradox , and ¦ the more extreme and startling the consequence ,
the more they seem animated to welcome it . The doctrine of Infallibility is UOAV stated by Avriters of great authority , so as not only to cover Avith the Divine infallible sanction the " civil princedom of the Pope , " " the whole doctrine about which , " Ave are told , " as to its methodical expression , has been
commenced , matured , and perfected by Pius IX ., " but to imply , in principle , a perpetual Divine inspiration giving infallible truth to every public word , at any rate , to every formal declaration of the Pope , on matters in any way affecting the Church ; such , for instance , as Ms late Allocution about Freemasonry ,