IPARED WITH POPERY: A LECTURE, BEFORE THE LAUNCESTON CHRISTIAN Y THE REV. J. EGGLESTON. E ODI LONDON: HHS HED BY J. MASON, 14, CITY-ROAD; SOLD AT 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW. COMPARED WITH POPERY: A LECTURE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE LAUNCESTON CHRISTIAN BY THE REV. J. EGGLESTON. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY J. MASON, 14, CITY-ROAD; 1848. CHRISTIANITY COMPARED WITH POPERY. WE are to bring before you this evening the contrast which subsists between Christianity and Popery. We designate the system of religion taught by the Church of Rome "Popery," not from a disposition to employ a reproachful epithet, but because we know not of a term more expressive, and less objectionable. The term "Catholicism," assumed by that Church, we ought not to employ, as it inflicts a wrong upon those apostolic churches that were never in communion with the Church of Rome, and that protested against her schismatic assumptions in calling her chief Pastor the Universal Bishop, and herself the Catholic Church. It may be thought invidious and illiberal to contrast Christianity with Popery; but we believe the defection of the Church of Rome to be so extensive, as to divest her of the essential properties of the Christian institute. We are to consider Popery as a |