Excerpt from A Defence of the Pastoral Letter of the Presbytery of Baltimore: In Reply to the "Vindicators of St. Mary's College, &C.," With an Appendix; Containing the Reasons for Recantation From the Errors of the Church of RomeIn the subsequent pages, should their tenour or spirit on this View of the subject, be supposed to be wholly directed against the traditionary worship of the Ro'mish Church, it may be necessary to prevent, or rectify such an apprehension) The writer, indeed, believes that the Church of Rome, owing to that city being for so many centuries, the imperial seat of grandeur, and power over the European world, has been the great source, from whence all the corruptions in Christianity, especially with respect to ex ternal forms of worship and Church Government, have so pro fusely proceeded. But he is far from supposing that the Romish Church, alone, contains corruption, or its prolific aliment, in these respects.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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