The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-10-25

any aihniiy 10 tie Roman c,,l.i..
may auluse the ignorant and the in. 0neftl,
iaIichlabie tales, but from those vi. win us
IRE eApehded, or who are qualified hiihds
me INTO The true principles of rseb .l eAam-
VII excite smile of derison and l''eh, be
Shakers and Swedenbofpian. 9. y, mn
reosserts, and contends with all liz 'ionus
81 sage, that their tonets mus, La ,p'' ihniiy
And how does lie go ahont 10 nrs,,,| ~. shme
erons point Why, because i" the sL.t. ,odi-
that Anna Leese is the woman MI, s.s mold
| revelations, the mother of the elec, = u Ia
9"edenbors was the founder OF III, "au a.
fusalem church therefore. Shale,s al de-
denhofgians must be tie same :, I've 9Ne-
! logiciah Any person who will take II, .,''he
p'u ~ examine The tenets Of both cln,reL,aur'
m"i hno' 'hai mere are no two churcle. ~
dissmllar than those in their doclrnes 'noic
ni-pelagans-Mo thjni ii,
are certain principles in religion. oC Ill uitFe
denominations partake more or loo ""eh all
in consequence of this amalgampt;oon 1''u lie,
cludes that II would be marvellous IL sa,e .on,
their tenets were not medley and #s,,"'o VI
his argument by saying that tie scni.neIa1;pp
must he a-"medlcy",! Where has saoS
this mighty genius thus long, that he hss s'el
rome out before with his profound d;s..l Hol
IONS have taken some trouble to 81 l''-
the tenefs OF the semi-pelHgians and mus, ,'''
Tess that am so dull of apprehension a. h
to have discovered any thing in them .L IVY
should entitle them 10 that appellate" n'1
than any other society. L heir tenets mr.. ''ore
plain and explicit 'efy
ihns, we have gone through with ,be a.
mnation of Momuss discourse: and AN
that we have shown satisfactorily thai Phi
pal regimen was The apostolic form of rb,'st
goyernment-that diocesan episronacy
been continued down from their time IL ~, i's
present-that bishops were then the sa,,o u" ''
those OF the present day, and that their tv,,a'.
ot church government is the same-tlnt h,n
tlsm and confirmation were performed !, ,,-
snn,e way as they now are-that the Ho, NV
church did rot exist for more than :3Doye.r.'"
ter the EpiacopaI-that there is no aiiin;t,'',' az
tween then-and, finally, that his aStsri.,..
are tissue of misrepresentation and jncoa
gruitics from beginning TO crd. 0'
Oct 20 AN FPiscorAIIAg
N. b. 10 show Momus in what estimate.
his writings are held out Of town. and I'm, Ia
servedly so too, have transcribed from ,ha,
respectable paper, TIE NortoH RrreJd of,I~
10th inst. the following remarks of the ed;,o"
:" we did not observe, in the hasty nensaI
which we gave the ektr1cts from the " ,nn%
burg lrginan," Gnserted in the frs, ncna ~,
Mondays paper) the insiIious inten,ioSs ~
he writer, and we copied tfor 10 other reo,o.
''en for the information of those readers ,rGa
might be as unIearned as ourselves in tbe t,n
cts OF the various denominations of Chr,ti,n.
Upon close investigation, however, We nc,.
ceive TINT they contain gross misrenresenta
lions, and therefore ii becomes US to d,sl"s.
The fact II is only necessary to descnate.ons
instance which is so glaring that we now WON
der how it escaped our notice-it is. na,
g English and American Epscopalians bcrer.
in consubstantiation an assertion direcGv
the reverse of the truth