A Respectful Letter to the Earl of Liverpool Occasioned by the Speech Imputed to His Lordship at the Isle of Thanet Bible Society Meeting,

Title: A Respectful Letter to the Earl of Liverpool ... Occasioned by the Speech Imputed to His Lordship at the Isle of Thanet Bible Society Meeting, October Xvii, M.dccc.xxi. [followed By] Appendix General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1823 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: blance of support to its arrogant pretensions is completely taken away; nay is shewn to be its most vulnerable point -- where all its achievements recoil upon itself, and aggravate to the highest possible excess the pernicious tendency of its proceedings. The other operations of the Bible Society -- its severance of the Word from the Christian Ministry -- its virtual extinction of that Ministry by raising to an equality with it, throughout the widely extended compass of the Society's confederation, all the self sent teachers of religionists of all denominations -- its suppression of note and commentary, with which, it is abundantly evident from the Scripture itself, that the Sacred Text never was unaccompanied -- and its incessant inculcation of a generalized Christianity, both, at public meetings, and from house to house by fanatics of the wildest, cast and the most insidious address -- These -- the Society's other operations, obviously levelled as they are at the social character of Christianity, and at the defmiteness of the Christian Faith as " once delivered to the Saints," yet waging their warfare only against the auxiliaries of the Scriptures, leave these Divine Oracles bearing witness to the truth, and ready, when the paroxysm pf reJi- gious phrensy shall at any time subside, to throw their light into all the breaches which have been made, and to be an infallible guide to their reparation. But this...