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Excerpt from The Complaint of the Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, Against the Action of Presbytery of Cincinnati at Its Fall Meeting, 1876, With the Argument
The answer of the Assembly of 1834 to the above question, an an swer which led directly to the disruption of the Church, because it de nied to the Church her right to condemn erroneous opinions apart from the arraignment of the author, was in these words That in the Opin ion of this Assembly, to take up, and try, and condemn, any printed publications as heretical and dangerous, is equivalent to condemning the author as heretical; that to condemn heresy in the abstract can not be understood as the purpose of such trial; that the results of such trial are to bear upon, and seriously to affect, the standing of the author; and the fair and unquestionable mode of procedure is, if the author be alive and known to be of our communion, to institute process against him, and give him a fair and constitutional trial. Baird, p. 669 The peculiar introduction of the word try, in its technical meaning, and in an illegitimate application to the phrase, printed publications, as though any court could ever dream of instituting forensic process against a book, an opinion, or a thing, is evidently inappropriate. The protest to this answer was this: We protest, because in our judgment this decision not only. Establishes a principle erroneous in itself, but does in fact the very thing which it imputes to the memorialists; it casts censure on a former General Assembly for examining and con demoing a heretical book before the author was tried and condemned by his Presbytery. We here refer to the case of W. C. Davis. Baird, 671.
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