Letters on the Ministry, Ritual, and Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church: Addressed to the Rev. Wm. E. Wyatt, D. D., in Reply to a Sermon Exhibiting Some of the Principal Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States

Excerpt from Letters on the Ministry, Ritual, and Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church: Addressed to the Rev. Wm. E. Wyatt, D. D., In Reply to a Sermon Exhibiting Some of the Principal Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States

As we are all accountable beings, and accountable only for ourselves, it is our duty to judge for ourselves. But when we are made to believe, that any man is endowed with a portion of the inspired intelligence of the apostles, and is, from the nature of the otiice he sustains, more holy than other men, shall we not be in danger of forgetting our obliga tions to ourselves, and be likely in our'religious concerns to yield up the highest prerogatives of our own nature - those of thinking, and reasoning, and judging P What merit can we claim for thinking and acting right, if we do not think and act from our own understanding and freedom To be lieve articles, because others have believed them, can scarcely be called a religious faith. That faith can be worth very little, and have little e Icacy on the life, which is not built on personal knowledge and conviction.

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