Facts and Assertions: or a Brief and Plain Exhibition of the Incongruity of the Peculiar Doctrines of the Church of Rome With Those Both of the Sacred Scriptures and of the Early Writers of the Christian Church Catholic

THE great and constant boast of the Latin Clergy is: that _The Catholic or Universal Church of Christ from the very beginning_, _has_ ALWAYS _taught the doctrines which are now...

1. _In the sacrament of the Eucharist_, _after the consecration of the bread and wine_, _our Lord Jesus Christ_, _true God and true man_, _is_, _truly and really and substantial...

I. Respecting a Purgatory, into which the souls of all, save those who are immediately conveyed to Hell, pass forthwith after death; in order that, by its fiery pains, they may...

I. Although the Church of Rome, speaking through the Council of Trent, claims the Written Word of God as a voucher for her doctrines; yet, as if conscious, that, from Scripture...

_So great is the abundance of divine munificence_, _that we are able to make satisfaction to God the Father through Jesus Christ_, _not only by punishments __either spontaneousl...

I. In exhibiting the tenets of the Romish Church and Clergy on these several points, I shall successively give: the decision of the council of Trent; the comments of some of the...

2. _I acknowledge the holy catholic and apostolic Roman Church to be the mother and mistress of all Churches_: _and I promise and swear true obedience to the Roman Pontiff_, _th...

So far as respects the _evidence_ upon which stands the alleged apostolicity of the peculiar doctrines and practices of Romanism, it will now be useful to hear the various ackno...

_In managing the old catholic writers when in disputation opposed to us by our adversaries_, say they, _we endure very many errors_. _Sometimes_, _we extenuate them_: _sometimes...

_The peculiar doctrines and practices_, _which the Clergy of the Roman Church pertinaciously inculcate upon their Laity_, _and to which they would proselyte the unthinking and u...