A guide for all to the Catholic Church, or The inquiry of a retired citizen into the Roman Catholic religion, ed. by H. Formby - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...of the world have it in their power to persecute Jesus Christ; and it has frequently happened, and will probably still continue to happen, that, imitating the blindness of the Jews, many other nations, to the end of the world, will think that these persecutions are required for the express purpose of insuring the security, and providing for the stability, of their own nationalities. Thomas. But, Philip, if you say that the society of Jesus Christ receives all people into itself, is it not by this fact exactly the very kind of power that promises to absorb and swallow up the nation in itself, in so alarming a manner that you can easily account for the horror and dread that all violent national partisans will have of a power so universal and so unlimited in its jurisdiction? Philip. The feeling you describe, Thomas, is nothing new in the world. The elders of Madian said of the Israel that had been delivered out of Egypt, "This people will destroy all that dwell in our borders, as the ox licketh up the grass to the roots" (Num. xxii. 4). But so far, Thomas, from the perfect society of Jesus Christ being really the destroyer of nationalities, the only true safety and security of nations consists in their coming to subsist as Christian nations in the bosom of the perfect society of Jesus Christ. It is to this great truth that the Scripture prophecy points, where the prophet says, " that "the kingdom and people that will not serve Thee "shall perish, and the Gentiles shall be wasted with "desolation" (Isaias lx. 12). The whole of the present civilised nations of Europe owe all that they now possess of nationality entirely to the fostering care of the Roman Catholic Church, without which they would have remained just the same wil...
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