| John Dowling - Papacy - 1845 - 698 pages
...EXPERIENCE, THAT IF THE HOLT BIBLE, TRANSLATED INTO THE VULGAR TONGUE, BE INDISCRIMINATELY ALLOWED TO EVERT ONE, THE TEMERITY OF MEN WILL CAUSE MORE EVIL THAN GOOD TO ARISE FROM IT, it if, on this point, referred to the judgment of the bishops, or inquisitors, who may, by the advice... | |
| Baptists - 1846 - 956 pages
...compiled by a committee appointed by the council of Trent, contain the following expressions : — " It is manifest from experience that if the holy bible,...will cause more evil than good to arise from it." The archbishops and bishops of Ireland did not scruple to affirm, in a "declaration" issued a few years... | |
| Protestantism - 1847 - 470 pages
...the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, (that is, into the common language of the people,) be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the temerity...will cause more evil than good to arise from it." Here we arc explicitly taught that the universal circulation of the Holy Bible would be productive... | |
| J. Eggleston - Anti-Catholicism - 1848 - 78 pages
...the fourth rule of the Congregation of the Index we have this authoritative statement:— " It is in this point referred to the judgment of the Bishops or Inquisitors, who may by the advices of the Priest or Confessor permit the reading of the Bible translated into the vulgar tongue... | |
| 1848 - 526 pages
...pretext above assigned — viz., that, if translations be indiscriminately allowed in the vulgar tongue, "the temerity of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it," is no just reason for depriving the people of the Word of Life : for — 1. Errors and heresies are... | |
| Gorges Lowther - 1849 - 216 pages
...assures the Christian world that, " It is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible translated in the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to...men will cause more evil than good to arise from it ; therefore, if any one shall have the presumption to read or possess himself of a Bible, without a... | |
| William Lupton (Wesleyan minister.) - 1849 - 224 pages
...prohibitory rule, by which the Romanists are interdicted an indiscriminate reading of the Scriptures : — "Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience, that...vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every cue, the temerity of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it, it is, on. this point, referred... | |
| John England - 1849 - 520 pages
...consent of the fathers.'' In the fourth rule of the Index Librorum prohibitorum, it is thus enacted : " Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience, that if...Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be discriminately allowed to every one, thé temerity of men will cause more evil than good to arise from... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1850 - 596 pages
...late as the year 1841 the Index of Prohibited Books, published by command of the Pope, states that " inasmuch as it is manifest, from experience, that...the judgment of the bishops or inquisitors, who may permit, &c. But if any one shall have the presumption to read or possess it without such permission,... | |
| Religious tract society - 1850 - 560 pages
...design of the council was to place as many difficulties in the way as possible ; for they held, that " it is manifest from experience, that if the Holy Bible,...of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it."t It i sa l so worthy of remark, that the true spirit of Popery is not allowed to develope itself... | |
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