Reasons For Abjuring Allegiance To The See Of Rome A Letter To The Earl Of Shrewsbury By Pierce Connelly

Author : Pierce Connelly
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ISBN 13 : 9781331744863
Total Pages : 50 pages
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Download or read book Reasons for Abjuring Allegiance to the See of Rome written by Pierce Connelly and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reasons for Abjuring Allegiance to the See of Rome: A Letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury Dear Lord Shrewsbury, The friendship with which you have honoured me for more than fifteen years, - from the day when your kind courtesy first brought you to my modest apartment in "Via della Croce," and subsequently led you to stand sponsor for me upon entering the Church of Rome, - which at last placed me in the confidential relationship of your domestic chaplain and in close intimacy, - a friendship proclaimed so honourably to me in my absence, and ever proved so affectionately at home, and which, on an occasion of great affliction, supported me by a sympathy given with manly frankness but with all a woman's gentleness, - such a friendship deeply felt and dearly remembered, imposes it on me almost as a duty to offer you publicly, if not an apology, at least the reasons, for my renouncing, as much against my feelings as your own, not only a position of much happiness and many worldly advantages, but the religion, which at one-and-thirty years of age 1 had deliberately chosen, and to which you solemnly took upon you to answer for my fidelity. You doubtless will remember my printed letter to my Bishop, when I gave up my preferment in the Protestant Church in America, long before taking any more decisive step. You will remember the principle which lay at the bottom of all my dissatisfaction with Protestantism, and what dear Bishop Otey called, my horror of the restless spirit of democracy in Church and State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.