The Pretensions Of The Roman Catholic Church Reprinted From Old And New PDF Download

Excerpt from An Appeal for the Erection of Catholic Churches in the Rural Districts of England: Together With Some Animadversions on the Pretensions of the Established Church, and on the Recent Approximation of Her Worship to That of Rome And Buckenham, Prior of the Black Friars, in a sermon he preached at Cambridge against the false Opinions of the Reformers, which were then just beginning to bring forth their evil fruits, most ably and unanswerably proved the sad effects that were likely to arise from putting the English version of the Bible into the hands of the common people. The ignorant and vulgar sort (he remarked) through occasion thereof, might haply be induced to leave their vocation, or else to run into some inconvenience; as, for example: the ploughman, when he reads in the Gospel, No man that layeth his hand on the plough, and looketh back, is meet for the kingdom of God, ' might, peradventure, cease from the plough. Likewise the baker, when he readeth that a little leaven corrupteth a whole lump of dough, ' may, percase, leave our bread unleavened, and so our bodies shall be unseasoned. Also the simple man, when he readeth in the Gospel, If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, ' may make himself blind, and so fill the world full of beggars.' 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.