PREFATORY NOTE.
The following pages (reprinted from the Church Herald) contain a brief reply to a pretentious but superficial paper which appeared in the Churchman's Magazine for August, and which was afterwards reprinted in a pamphlet.
With the local personalities introduced by the Churchman's Magazine and its contributor, we have not felt called upon to interfere; our concern is to vindicate scriptural principles as set forth in the authorized translation of the Holy Scriptures, which may be regarded as expressing not only the true principles of the Church of England, but of Protestantism generally. When attempts are made to set aside, or to set ecclesiastical authority above any great principle of Bible truth, or of human right, they are always begun by attacks upon the authorized translation of the Holy Scriptures, whether made by the sneering sceptic or the Roman ecclesiastic, or the amphibious character that floats between Protestantism and Romanism. We trust the following pages will tend to check such attempts, as well as give information on an important questions of religious and social life.
- Toronto1st September, 1871.
