# Watson Refuted Being an Answer to the Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff

Author: Francis, Samuel W. (Samuel Ward), 1835-1886

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40978

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## Summary

You have thought it not inconsistent with your dignity as a Bishop, to oppose the _Age of Reason by Thomas Paine_, and I, as a member of the community, find myself called upon to expose your reasoning, and stop the career of error. You disclaim controversy; but if your candour is any thing more than a vain boast, I entertain hopes of seeing the defender of Christianity again step forward to answer my arguments, if he deems them of sufficient weight to disturb his quiet. I am sincerely glad to find a dignified churchman begin a dispute with men, whom formerly the pious members of the Church would have deemed fit victims for the fire or the gallows; at the same time, I feel deep regret, tha...

## Chapters

- [LETTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watson-refuted-being-an-answer-to-the-apology-for-the-bible-in-da6dd524/chapters/2/index.md)
- [LETTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watson-refuted-being-an-answer-to-the-apology-for-the-bible-in-da6dd524/chapters/4/index.md)
- [LETTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watson-refuted-being-an-answer-to-the-apology-for-the-bible-in-da6dd524/chapters/5/index.md)
- [chapter xxxvii. ver. 18, the verb is used in the same sense, _non](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watson-refuted-being-an-answer-to-the-apology-for-the-bible-in-da6dd524/chapters/7/index.md)
- [LETTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watson-refuted-being-an-answer-to-the-apology-for-the-bible-in-da6dd524/chapters/3/index.md)
- [LETTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watson-refuted-being-an-answer-to-the-apology-for-the-bible-in-da6dd524/chapters/1/index.md)
- [LETTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watson-refuted-being-an-answer-to-the-apology-for-the-bible-in-da6dd524/chapters/8/index.md)
- [LETTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watson-refuted-being-an-answer-to-the-apology-for-the-bible-in-da6dd524/chapters/6/index.md)