Transcribed from the [1828] T. Tippell edition ,
THE SELF-PLUMED BISHOP UNPLUMED.
A REPLY
TOTHE
PROFOUND ERUDITION OF THESELF-NAMED
HUGH LATIMER,
INHIS
DOCTRINE OF ENDLESS PUNISHMENTASSERTED,
BY
T. LATHAM,
MINISTER AT BRAMFIELD, SUFFOLK.
“Let us candidly admit where we cannotrefute, calmly reply where we cannot admit, and leave anger tothe vanquished, and imputation of bad motives to those who aredeficient in good argument.” Rev. W. J. Fox.
“Illi sæviant in vos, qui nesciunt quo cum laboreverum inveniatur, et quam difficile caveantur errores. Illiin vos sæviant, qui nesciunt quam rarum et arduum sit,carnalia phantasmata piæ mentis serenitate superare. Illi in vos sæviant, qui nesciunt quantis gemitibus etsuspiriis fiat, ut quantulacunque parte possit intelligiDeus. Postremo, illi in vos sæviant, qui nullo talierrore decepti sunt, quali vos deceptos vident.” St. Augustine.
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In the various tracts that I havepresented to the public, as well as at the conclusion of mylectures and appendix, I have earnestly requested any one whodeemed himself competent to the task, to refute and expose myerrors publicly from the press. W. W. Horne was the firstwho made an attempt to prop up the tottering cause of orthodoxy,and re-build the Idol Temple; and how much this attempt met theapprobation of the orthodox, may be gathered from the fact, thatthey would not permit his performance to see daylight in theseparts!!! The person more immediately concerned to reply tomy lectures and appendix, has contented himself, and satisfiedhis friends, with warning young people to be upon their guardagainst that bare-faced infidelity that dares to shew its hatefulcrest in open daylight; and by assuring them in one concisesentence, “that if they are saved it will be for ever andever, and if they are lost it will be for ever and ever; and ifthey depend on having been sincere and morally honest, or onrepentance and reformation of conduct, (though both he says arenecessary), their hopes will prove totally fallacious andgroundless, and will deceive their souls in the end, and theymust sink into the frightful regions of despair, and becomecompanions of those who must for ever weep, wail, and gnash theirteeth, without any diminution of their sufferings or deliverancefrom them.” This is doing business withdispatch. Yet, I have never imagined, that any one wouldsuppose that a note in a funeral sermon