id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005197500 nan Mr. Newman's apostacy : documents relating to the apostacy of the Rev. John Henry Newman to the Romish Church. 1845 .txt text/plain 8939 348 72 In our judgment, men of sober piety, of sense and firmness, should rather regard these circumstances in favor of Rome as temptations to be resisted: It is very reasonable that men of earnest feeling and sound judgment should labor to bring back to our Church that efficacy and influence as a Church which it had lost through the carelessness and almost deadness of her sons during the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineĀ­ teenth century; but it is certainly as reasonable to stand firm by the sober, dignified, intelligible principles and practices of our own English Church, and to keep far from us the subtle logic of Rome, which entangles the understanding, and the superstitious ceremonies, which bewilder and overcome the heart. A blow of equal magĀ­ nitude, it must be allowed, has not befallen our Church, at least in this our day. cache/_005197500.txt txt/_005197500.txt