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Excerpt from Lecture-Sermons on the Distinctive Errors of Romanism: Preached in Portman Chapel, St. Marylebone, Lent 1842
The reason which first pressed upon the writer the very difficult subject handled in the following pages, was, it must be confessed, a personal one. Pursuing, as he imagined, the doctrines of the Church of England in their full integrity, he, in company with many others better than himself, was met with so many remarkable misunderstand ings and perversions of the truth, that his mind was unavoidably driven to the question - Are the distinctive points which separate Rome from the Church Catholic, safiiciently recognized by our people? And this question was immediately followed up by a determination to lay before his congregation some clear and familiar explanation of the real tenets of Romanism; so that the evil of the Church of Rome, and the good of the Church of England, might no longer be looked upon-in the confusion which evidently prevailed. This feeling is so fully described in the Introductory Sermon, and also in the General Conclusion, that nothing farther need be said in this place, than to refer the reader thither.
The publication of the Sermons in numbers immediately after their delivery, was adopted with a double object. First, that an opportunity might be given to such persons as might desire it, to obtain information on any one Specific subject, without encumbering him with the burden of the whole. And secondly, with the View of destroying at once, - without delay, those seeds of disaffection which were on all sides displaying themselves against true Catholic principles. There was no time to be lost: many readers would be unwilling to undertake to read a large volume, who might be willing to read a small portion at a time; spe cially when presented to them on one single subject.
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