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ll not go astray. The Church of undoubtedly greatly gone astray in the invocation of Saints, and pression of half of the Eucharist the cup to the Laity, &c. &c.

religion of Protestants in this gdom, as was observed before, ith St. Paul. But the first inst the Church of Rome was e British Bishops of the seventh

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nts believe in the Holy Catholic believing that the Universal hrist is one holy Catholic believe in this holy Catholic they do not believe the e to be the whole Church of elieve in the communion of hey do not ascribe to them omnipresence by praying to

Is no Church called the ProtesThere are different branches rch of Christ protesting against of the Church of Rome, such as

1. BECAUSE the Protestant Religion is a new Religion, which had no. being in the world, till one thousand five hundred years after Christ; and therefore it comes fifteen hundred years too late to be the true Church of Christ. Martin Luther laid the first foundation of the Protestant Religion in the year 1517.

2. Because the Protestant Religion cannot be true, except the whole Scripture, both of

These Reasons are given in the words of the Roman Catholic Bishop Challoner, from whose Tract they are taken.

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ROMAN CATHOLIC'S REASONS

EXAMINED AND ANSWERED.

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1. THE Religion of Protestants in this united Kingdom is not a new Religion, but is as old as the days of St. Paul, who preached it and established it in Britain.

The Church of Britain was fully established before the Church of Rome.

Martin Luther did not lay the first foundation of the Protestant Religion. The Church of Britain protested against the superstition and idolatry of the Church of Rome, and would hold no communion with it, as early as the beginning of the seventh century.

2. The Protestant Religion does not pretend to be a reformation of the Church of Christ, but of the Church of Rome. The Scripture no where says, that the Church of

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the old and new Testament, from the beginning to the end, be false, which in so many places assures us, that the Church of Christ shall never go astray. For every one knows that the Protestant Religion pretends to be a Reformation of the Church of Christ.

3. Because the first foundations of the Protestant Religion were laid by an insupportable pride in one man, viz. Luther.

4. Because Luther and the first Protestants, when they began to set up their new Religion, and disclaimed the authority and doctrine of all Churches then upon earth, could not say the Creed without telling a lie, when they came to that article, I believe in the holy Catholick Church, the communion of saints.

5. Because the Protestant Church has not those marks by which the Nicene Creed directs us to the true Church of Christ: is not one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolical. 1.

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Rome shall not go astray. The Church of Rome has undoubtedly greatly gone astray by idolatry in the invocation of Saints, and by the suppression of half of the Eucharist in refusing the cup to the Laity, &c. &c.

3. The religion of Protestants in this united Kingdom, as was observed before, is coeval with St. Paul. But the first Protest against the Church of Rome was made by the British Bishops of the seventh century.

4. Protestants believe in the Holy Catholic Church, by believing that the Universal Church of Christ is one holy Catholic Church. They believe in this holy Catholic Church, though they do not believe the Church of Rome to be the whole Church of Christ. They believe in the communion of Saints, though they do not ascribe to them the attribute of omnipresence by praying to them.

5. There is no Church called the Protestant Church. There are different branches of the Church of Christ protesting against the errors of the Church of Rome, such as