Serious Remonstrance Addressed to the REV. R.W. Sibthorp Occasioned by 'Some Answer to the Inquiry Why Are You Become a Catholic?' by Those of the Hul - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... monks ranked this eminent scholar among "the magicians and the disciples of Satan." % See "The character and tokens of the true Catholic Church." By Rev. R. W. Sibthorp. p. 29. London, 1827. t Moshemii Hist. Eccles. p. 354. J Ibid. 356. Speaking more particularly of the state of religion, he says: "Nothing is more indisputable than that the sacred order, in this century, was both in the east and west, composed chiefly of men destitute of learning, of fools, of persons ignorant of everything pertaining to religion, licentious, superstitious, and addicted to the basest vices. Nor can it be questioned that the main causes of these evils, lay with those who wished to appear as the parents and guides of the Church. For certainly nothing was deemed too vile, wicked, and dishonourable, for the supreme Ecclesiastical Rulers to perpetrate. Nor did ever any other government addict itself to so many vices of every kind, as that which bore the title of most sacred." "The history of the Roman Pontiffs of this century, is the history not of men, but of monsters, ... as the friends of the Papacy themselves acknowledge." Moshemii Hist. Eccles. p. 361. t Ibid. p. 362. J Ibid. p. 364. Ibid. p. 365. Rome itself seemed, at the commencement of the century, placed at the mercy of a profligate woman, who by her influence seated John X. in the Papal chair. He was soon cut off by the still more profligate daughter of his patroness, who at length succeeded in securing this venal dignity for another Pope of the same name, the fruit of her own illicit intercourse with a preceding vicar of Christ. We ask, dear Sir, with all seriousness, as in the sight of Him to whom you and we "must give account," Was...