Tract Xc Historically Refuted Or A Reply To A Work By The Rev F Oakeley Entitled The Subject Of Tract Xc Historically Examined PDF Download

Excerpt from Tract XC: Historically Refuted, or a Reply to a Work by the Rev. F. Oakeley, Entitled, the Subject of Tract XC, Historically Examined It is, however, beyond question that many minds, warped in sensibly towards Roman doctrine by Tractarian teaching, and then finding, like their leaders, that they must either quit the church of their fathers or discover some mode of reconciling their new views with the authoritative Formularies of that church, have adopted the ingenious reasonings by which the Tractarian system has been defended as consistent with the teaching of our church. Men whose minds are in the state to which we have alluded, are exposed to the influence of a power ful temptation to seek a way of escape from the difficulties with which they are surrounded, in ingenious glosses upon words and phrases, and happy applications of a few historical facts and isolated sentences of former writers (which may be found for anything), calculated, as they hope, to Show, that the Views they entertain are reconcileable with the engagements they have entered into, and the avowed violation of which would entail upon them consequences for which they are hardly prepared. To a man even of ordinary mental power, when placed in such a position, the task of inventing suitable interpretations is by no means a difficult one. And as far as regards the moral part of the question, great allowances must be made for the circum stances of the case. But the example is not the less dangerous. And those who take such a course must not be offended if others speak plainly when offering a word of warning against the delusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.