The Doctrines and Practices of Popery Examined: In a Course of Lectures, by Ministers in Glasgow (Classic Reprint) (Hardback) | Released: 01 May 2018

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Ir is an important sign of the times, and as we trust, no smalltoken for good, that the following Lectures, delivered and printed fifteen years ago, are at this day, by a loud call, -demanded for republication. At no former period in the history of our country has there been so much earnest reading, and writing, and public speaking, on the subject of Popery. This unusual excitement, carried to the highest pitch through out the breadth and length of the land, is owing, as all the world knows, to the recent Papal Aggression; an exhibition of the spirit of Popery, distinguished for its daring but ridiculous presumption; as well as for its deliberate, and, as we doubt not the event in this case will prove, its most foolish and miscalculating policy. It is not an angry, but an intelligent opposition to the Man of Sin' that will avail; not a bigoted zeal for an unscriptural Prelacy, and for an earthly supremacy in the Church; but an enlightened zeal for the glory of the Lord's House, and the expulsion Of 'that Wicked, who Opposeth'and exalteth himself above all that is called God;' a true knowledge and love of the truth as it is in Jesus, and a just appreciation of that liberty wherewith Christ has made his people free. It is such a Spirit that is fittest to rescue the victims of Popish delusion, and rebuke the impertinent aggressions of the Church Of Rome.

In' these northern parts, where we have nothing to suffer from an invasion of bishoprics, and where we have, to no considerable extent, a zeal for any Church supremacy but that Of the Church's Head, there is probably less of what we have characterised as mere excite ment, and somewhat more, as we venture to hope, Of a determined opposition on Bible principles, to the Man of Sin.' And now, as we have already hinted at the outset, we take it as a token for good, that there is a renewed demand for the revival and circulation Of this pre sent volume. It was originally produced when there was no peculiar aggression on the part Of the Romish Antichrist, and when there was simply the duty, at all times incumbent, of contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, ' of awakening our Protestant people to a sense of their privileges, and their responsibility; of guard ing them againstthe enemy that soweth tares in the night; and Of warning our Roman Catholic countrymen Of the temporal miseries with which their system blights every land where it prevails, and of the ruin in which it must Of necessity involve their precious and immortal souls.

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