Mutiny

Transcribed from the 1853 Wertheim and Macintosh edition by David Price.
WITH REFERENCE MORE ESPECIALLY TO A PAMPHLET LATELY PUBLISHED BY THE
REV. C. J. VAUGHAN, D.D.,
Head Master of Harrow School ,
ENTITLED “A FEW WORDS ON THE CRYSTAL PALACE QUESTION.”
BY THE REV. JOHN PEROWNE, M.A.,
Rector of St. John’s Maddermarket , Norwich .
LONDON: WERTHEIM AND MACINTOSH, PATERNOSTER ROW; NORWICH: THOMAS PRIEST, RAMPANT HORSE STREET,
1853.
Price One Shilling .
The following pages are published with considerable reluctance. The Author read Dr. Vaughan’s pamphlet several weeks since, and was much pained that some of the sentiments contained in it should proceed from such a quarter. He hoped and expected that some one with more leisure than he can command, and more capable of doing justice to the important points under discussion, would undertake to refute what he felt to be the very erroneous notions of the learned Doctor. Since, however, no one else has taken up the subject, he ventures to submit his sentiments to the Christian public. He has no love for polemics, and very unwillingly appears in print; but he has reason to know, that the notions to which he alludes have already, in several instances, encouraged a violation of the Sabbath, and that they are likely to produce more extensive mischief, from the circumstance of no attempt having been made to refute them. To prevent this evil, is one object of the present undertaking. Another is, to counteract the erroneous sentiments of Dr. Vaughan’s pamphlet; while the writer’s chief aim is, to set forth what he believes to be the will of God on the important subject of the Sabbath. He is convinced that the principles enunciated in the following pages are in conformity with the teaching of the Bible; and being fully assured that obedience to the will of our Heavenly Father, is in all things the only way of peace and safety, he will rejoice if this pamphlet shall become the means of removing error, or of confirming those who already believe that the Sabbath is of divine and perpetual obligation.