And now, my Lord, I have done. I offer no apology for addressing you. I trust you may be enabled to thank me, however unworthy, for having done so. I offer no apology for my manner of writing to you. I have endeavoured to show you “the error of your way,” and if I have used “great plainness of speech” “it is what I could attain unto,” and what I desired. That God may show you the fearfulness of the step you have taken—the grovelling bondage under which you have placed yourself, and rescue you from that bondage, before it be too late, when your eyes shall have closed upon everything of earth once and for ever, is my fervent prayer; and with every good wish for you, and for the unconscious partner in your guilt,
I beg to subscribe myself,
My Lord,
Your well-wisher, and obedient humble servant,
G. L. STONE.
Some readers of the foregoing Letter may have expected to find in it some allusion, at least, to what Gavazzi calls “the broken faith of Lord Fielding.” I have purposely avoided any remarks on the subject; and do not think it necessary to account for the omission.
PRINTED BY T. PAINTER, HIGH-STREET, WREXHAM.
FOOTNOTES.
[3] Analysis of Divine Faith, p. 359.
[4a] Omnes libros quos Protestantes, &c. De verbo dei. lib. 1. cap. 10.
[4b] 2 Es. viii. 33. Eccles. iii. 3, 30. Comp. Eccles. vii. 20. Rom. iii. 20. 1 John i. 8. Tobit. vi. 16, 17. 2 Mac. xiv. 41, 46. Comp. Tobit. v. 12 and xii. 15. While the books of Maccabees seem to represent Antiochus to have died three times! 1 Mac. xvi. 6. 2 Mac. i. 16. ix. 28.
[4c] Cardinal Cajetan also rejects the Apocrypha. Com: in Om: authen: vet: testam. Paris, 1546. p. 481–2.