...afforded us of making one noble quotation from this immortal work. The great principle maintained in it, that the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of protestants, ought to ba indelibly impressed on the minds of every professor of the protestant faith. " When I say,"...

...though it may have been comparatively true when^rst spoken and written, yet it is positively untrue now, that " the Bible and the Bible only is the religion of Protestants." And so, my dear friends, your Bible-only Christians, where are they ? And echo, repeated from church...

...to own that it is the duty and privilege of Christians to read that book and to rifle its contents; that the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants (for it is excessively convenient to profess a religion so completely impersonal and detached from...

...that I have said in the Lecture, that the Church Catechism does not commence with such a principle as that " the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants ; " indeed, I cannot fancy any method much more unfortunate, than to base the Christian religion upon...

...nothing, and a ¡Sceptic, at last, in the mysteries of faith." This is the man who propounded the dogma that, " the Bible, and the Bible only is the Religion of Protestants," in order to shelter his disaffection to the English Church, as well as to other professions. Having...

...than can now be gathered from the collected labours of intervening generations. The modern saying, that " the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants," in its unqualified form, does Protestantism great injustice. If accepted at all, it must bo accepted...

...accompany transcendent piety in all ages? He was in this state when bis intimacy with Hnrrell Fronde began. From him he learned to think with less abhorrence...Protestants, ceased by degrees to have weight with him, and be accepted the opinion that Tradition is at least a main instrument of religious teaching. He took,...

...teaching as infallible.^ It is however with what the Bible does say that we have to do. It is boasted that " the Bible, and the Bible only is the religion of Protestants." If the Bible is not true, Christianity cannot be true. So far. the candour and honesty of Mr. Macnaught...

...Prayer-Book, at a period when there was imminent danger of its being neglected, from the false-applifation of the maxim, that the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of the Protestant. That insinua- 2 О lions of popery were urged in the heat of the controversy, or in...

...were all declared to lie on the surface of the Bible, and a famous, but wild, axiom was devised, " that the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants." Truly Protestants must have a low estimate of the perspicuity of Holy Writ as an encyclopaedia of Christianity,...