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reviewer should have prefixed " Chris- 

 tianity " by the term " Sacerdotal," and 

 "Catholic" by the distinctive epithet 

 46 Roman." For it must be manifest to 

 all that the Christianity of the New Testa- 

 ment, as explained by St Paul, and that 

 taught by the Church of Rome during the 

 last thirteen centuries, is as distinct as the 

 Catholicity of the primitive Christians 

 differs from that of the Papal Church in 

 the present day. 



That Professor Drummond rates the 

 Church of Rome at its proper value may 

 be inferred from the following passage : 

 " No more perfect or more sad example," 

 he says, " of semi-parasitism exists, than 

 in the case of those illiterate thousands 

 who, scattered everywhere throughout the 

 habitable globe, swell the lower ranks 

 of the Church of Rome. Had an organi- 

 sation been specially designed, indeed, 

 to induce the parasitic habit in the souls 

 of men, nothing better to its disastrous 

 end could be established than the system 

 of Roman Catholicism. Roman Catho- 

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