This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... has the meeting been closed, than Dr. Faa avails himself of the liberty of the press, and prints and circulates the tract now lying before me. It is very strange that whilst Dr. Faa was availing himself of this liberty, his great master, who preceded Pius IX., Gregory XVI., was heartily denouncing it; for in 1839 this Pope wrote: "Hither tends that worst, and never sufficiently to be execrated and detested liberty of the press, for the diffusion of all manner of writings, which some so loudly contend for." And he adds too: " From this same fountain of indifference flows that absurd and erroneous doctrine, or rather raving, in favour, and in defence of liberty of conscience, tor which most pestilential error the course is open by that entire and wild liberty of opinion, &c." Here, then, is a Pope, in 1839, denouncing the liberty of the press, which Dr. Faa has made use of in 1850, as well as liberty of conscience; that is, to believe whatever yon like, which Dr. Faa has also made use of. Here is a Pope denouncing it; here is a priest making use of it; and I have no doubt that Dr. Faa feels that, however admirable the Popes doctrine maybe at Rome, where the Pope has all the power, our Protestant doc-trine is beat where he has not the power; and he has accordingly made use of it in the circulation of this pamphlet. He begins first of all by the statement that " Protestants hold, that the holy Scriptures are clear and easy to be understood in all things necessary to salvation." Well, we have certainly been in the habit, the unfortunate habit, if Dr. Faa chooses to call it so, of believing this. We have believed so upon such grounds as this, that he that reads may "run while he reads." And we find, too, that when the Apostles preached, there...