New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-07

position OF BsAGp t1HGttS, lAil'i IN MS ''
sion Of the Protestant Rlle OF FAITH The favor
tie areumeut with all the advocates ii Romanlsm
ls that there can be security for the sonntness
al fnith in PrteStantisn, berRuse y utterly re-
iects Church authority. 1t does not Just as Ii
Protestants believed, and taught that every man
has perfect moral right 70 think as he pleascs IN
matters of religion This is an absurdty which
is contradicted by the admitted truth, that God
has prescribed the articles OF religious betet N
that Revelation, which We make the rule OF our
Faith Our creeds and confessions and cate
clsms are SO many tradltouary forms, not pre-
serted rs additional Rules OF Faith, but offered
as opponents of Que and the same rule Iney
may differ and they 60 differ on some points bat
in the main in the leading articles OF our common
undoubted Christian I ath they are one. We
take the ground and we avow the PRINCIPLE t9at
God alone is Lord OF the conscience that the
Scriptures themselves demand an appeal to their
own teachings. To the Law and to the Test
mony If they speak not according to this rule
| it is because Ihcrc is no light in them SearCh
the Scriutures" In other words, the Bible deals
with every mans rs accountable to God. threats
him as rational creature, caPab.e OF understands
ing the divine law, and demands OF him the right
exercise OF al his faculties IN forming his reh-
gious principles. He is to Judge for himself, and
he is to answer to God for his opinions The
| Church Of Rome on the other hand proposes that
every man shall trust implicitly to her authority
You must believe this because the Church
H..
that usage, though they be not prescribed in
a. % charter which God has given Won he.
cause the Church cnjoins them Now, as
Protestants We utterly deny that God has dele
gated any such authority to any hierarchy under
a. rs to1 - 90 -i
prIucII.e Gl IigGl'J il"n 'iio u c.,
authority we o"t! Lolic as iie" VI 1i'o -"
Lord Jesus Christ! The whole argument OF blsh-
on Hughes tends to the destruction OF this liberty
He must have human Heau 10 pressure oNtI LH9
Church OF bis choIce AylsIDIe ueal, ia Wofu,
an lniellble rope AND a more iFFaV'oNt aLiu u1i'
pmlosoFhlc conclusion ne co4!a not reach, "a
more rIdeulous pfetehslon lah I'4's o. aLli an!
biIty, never was invented to torment tue creuull-
+ OF man. Tins tendency 10 Gesgotlc hutqoflty
Is the very salient Iolht oil all tne Iah6tt tdt IS
threatened to tree institutions Oy the prevalence
OF Catholicism 1t claims supremacy as me
right From its very nature 1t is not content, ana
never can be satisfied with equal privileges 10
be true to ITSELF it must rule, and rule with roo
of iron Ii can tolerate no plea for the rights OF
conscience, except when through its weak
ness it is compelled to whisper out OF the dust
When it can getno more, it will accept toteTGtl0n
and bde the time when it can issue its mandates
with the voice of a nercilcss tyraut. Thus, Arch
bishop Hughes rails at the Established Church of
England, as a Estate slave % The Church OF
Rome holds different station. she is the p" STATE
Mistress % She is the despot that sways the
'
istrate that compes the very monarch upon his
throne to bow reverenty before her claim OF tenn
poral supremacy. Thus one Pope compes an
Emperor OF Germany to stand barefoot at MS
gates Tor three days IKE the yerlest cqlPrl before
he can gain an audience and an Their ants his ioot
upon the meek OF the ring, quq9lin? tlle %oLas %
DAVID tnou SMUT tlc"u Pon t W iii 'r S az
der hence uaVe alisen az eno 9SeHo ,:t u,
cruelty ana PeISeCuVo. "5 '5nS' 10
|hch her aIhais are stu'o az - ',,n
pea "n'tu u9s poci Use. ST.; i So ~,
ms point ahu Ia no1iIo ~ ltel = ,,2'' ~
yict'oh thaI gross INJUSTICE ia1 oee 'oi.o c.to
IfoIeslai!' SGc' tuiouou m ~
ne PEE u,l"i 6ao.,, ,1,4,d tbnoo
toiu e''@s $50 d;4lrod ron, tboir own
"G1sc IcileioIs %
a. ,,o .or,l+ ,bo, 70 do ~ Tho
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put me pc u so ~ w NJ
III III. ,rocrt others far
oIi,;;nrs eaIo TLa Church Of Rome still claims
~ 81 erfII ayoJys III And wherever she has
the nover. she enl0rces her claim Look ut her
tb,dIogcoi standards and Won fad that at this
ye,-, do,- ebe teaches her students of theology
tEof stIeretirs are Justly punished with death -
Witness tHe racnn4 fncts in Madeira Hundreds
If portnonaee have baen bapisbed from the
Tslond becousc. thew were Bible renders Hunted
Ike wild beasts. tbev were driven to mountains
and caves their property was confiscated and
thew were outlawed, for no other crime than pre-
ierTing the truth of God to the fables of Rome
In one point, the Church Of Rome has always
been consistent She has always been a perse-
cutor of Protestants when she has had the
power Now. let suppose a case. Fifty years
hence. in the progress OF Catholicism anticipated
by Archbishop Hughes this country will have
reached crisis of M ordinary magnitude and mo.
ment. The Church of Rome viii have gained, if
he is correct, a vast amount of power, and will
have amassed large resources. She will perhaps
be able to control our elections, to choose our
President and the Governors of the different
States, and to secure majority of the Senators
and r onrespntatiyes in our National and State