: A Letter to Lord Fielding. Suggested by the late proceedings at the New Church at Pantasa by Stone George Luther - Catholic Church; Catholic Church Doctrines; Church of England; Denbigh Rudolph William Basil Feilding Earl of 1823-1892; Catholic converts; P

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A LETTER TO LORD FIELDING.

SUGGESTED BY THE LATE PROCEEDINGS AT THE NEW CHURCH AT PANTASA.

BY

INCUMBENT OF ROSSETT, DENBIGHSHIRE.

LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO.; CHESTER, PRICHARD; MOLD, PRING AND PRICE; HOLYWELL, MORRIS; WREXHAM, PAINTER.

LETTER, &c.

MY LORD;--

The first of the "chief points" is: "the Canon of the sacred Scriptures."

Claud D'Expence a very celebrated Parisian divine, writes thus--"Shameful to relate they give permission to Priests to have concubines, and to live with their harlots, who have children by them, upon paying an annual tribute, and in some places they oblige Priests to pay this tax saying they may keep a concubine if they please." Espen: Com: ad Cap. 1. ad Tit. Dig: 2.

Hear again, how your Cardinal Baronius writes--"What then was the face of the Roman Church? How very filthy when the most powerful and sordid harlots then ruled at Rome, at whose pleasure Sees were changed, and Bishopricks were given, and what is horrible to hear and most abominable--their gallants were obtruded into the See of Peter, and made false Popes; for who can say they could have been lawful Popes who were intruded by such harlots without law? There was no mention of the election or consent of Clergy, the Canons were silent; the decrees of Popes suppressed; the ancient traditions proscribed,--lust, armed with the secular power, challenged all things to itself." Bar: Ann: A.D. 912.

This is the system of a celibate Clergy for which you, my Lord, have forsaken that Church which honors "holy Matrimony"--knowing that the Apostle declares that "Marriage is honorable in all." Heb. xiii. 4.

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