Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-08-13

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fpzpaa power was ially sssahIfshsd, md
sas darkness Of sAs msadls secs, bad fsllss
upon 0hrisseadssn.
Been b shown howsya, thai aurina
this dark period leading men Of tbs Rsas.
ish church were TO be found, who boldly
denounced the usurpations, and eorrup-
lions, Of the church Of Rome, Bishor
Danstan, patsoek, Folias, and Grossssa,
ii various periods mp TO the thirteenth
I s@asary, ssiIl held 70 shs distinctive doc
trines OF the English church and s'de6ed
the 1hundars Of the Vatican
/ In the sixteenth century, the Apostolic
church threw OF the Roman yoke and
ssfrssd herself from the srrors into which
she had bass foread.n @
twas not . rsw church, nor we're her
errors the church Itself, and il leaving
them she did nos Leave. herself; cor did
she lose her saeatify, much less Der Apos.
tolie existence, "she simply threw oiE
what Popery had added to the faith.n
| The reformers of the past, and present
ages acted differently; they we're not con-
tent ''to sxcind from the church what was
corrupt, but In their seal they cat oif what
was Apostolic They rejected Episco~
paey, because the Bishop of Rome was .
Pope"
The multitudes Of sscts which spruag
up subsequently,, exercised unhEidlsd lib
erty to extremes, sscaa were divided and
sabdivided adm faitufa. &s'a
''There vera the independents who
not only rejected Episeopacy, bat Presby-
teriaRiam also, and 30 refused all minis
try thas pretended to an Apostolic coma
mission, and accepted such only, as the
congregation should make for themselves;
hence they are called oongregatioualisss. p
The Quakars rejected not only the minis
try, but the saCraments.
The Puritans resisted the existing IN
ion of the church and State and emixra-
ted to New England, with the avowed OBJ
Jet of enjoying the ''largest liberty" but
Instantly form ed government With which
the church was more closely connected
than tbs one they left. Severe laws were
enacted against the immigration into the
country of these congregational Puritans
of any religious sect, except those who
were approved by them. Quaksrs were
imprisoned, whipped, banished, md
murdered Churohmen wsrr in.prsa-
oned, and compelled to pay titl1es TO shis
new-fanglsd State Church. In England
and America, the seets which were scat
tered over both countries, underwent all |
the horrors Of persecution, at the hasas
Of these cratic PuritaDs, whose bigoted
zeal was only equaled by the Roman hies-
aFchy in the middle ages. These perse-
eutions arose from the same causes that
produced the Romish prosecutions, TO wit; |
noneonformity to the dOgmas of the new
tangled Congregation" They forbade
others to do, what they so recently had
done themselves.
They seeded from the church Of Christ,
but considered 1t a crime worthy of death,
in the Baptist, and Quaker to seoede from
them. They professed to be especially
empowered to confer the "holy orders"
on each other alternately; but it WAS a
crime worthy of death for she Quaker
to do the same thing. The priv
ilege of erecting a new standard of rail-
gious worship was arrogantly assumed by
the Puritans to the exclusion of all 9TH
ers and | suppose if some disaaected
ones Of DR.. Beeeher's church o-day, sho'd
secede, be would think the crime worthy
Of present death, and future endless dam
nation.
The wicked assumptions Of sectarians
heir prouenezs 20 wanton disobedieuce to
wholesome church rules, and to the Lave
II man, and of God in the beginning of
heSe sacrefigious stampedes, lost not one
OF Of their ferceness or force, by their
exodus from Europe. The same bigoted
asting for power and fame, thai prompt
ID Mohammed to proclaim to the world
be CoTau, as the word of God, and Him
elf His Prophet; in the 18th century, q
irompted John Robinson, SwedeuboTg, 3
Williams, (who was baptized By lay
zan,) an Anne Lee, and 10. Smith to !
reclaim themselves prophets, but with t
rophecies as contradictory TO each other, 0
3 they were to the word Of God.
These stupendous swindies, have far :
nd wide been The wicked means of poi v
aniBg the public mind With awful here .
les of these inkdel destroyers, so that the :
ibie, may be wholly, Or in part, rejected &
will and better book trapped" cut Q
"sitting" or two, Of these fanatical Il
'aitors to their country, their own souls,
I'D to God. The fruits Of these horrible :,
oings, are being fast developed first by fl
diseord, and then secession "a
the so called churches--4s. fdsE ffeongre- Y
ltions," then wranglings, and strifea, n
nong the masses aided By Rev., and Lay d
combined, at Last have eul- v
inassd In civil war, which ia sweeping p
Ier our once happy nation Ikea lorna. ! J.
"a war. the proportions Of which were q
Yer equaled In this vide world, and Ia
Aich has been thesiestruction Of the best 81
'vernmens ever vouchsafed By God I'd j.
an. II
l would thai sTery thoughtfal penlsssat, -
ID good citizen, would read the scrip #
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