The Apostacy Unveiled Author:John Thomas Subtitle: Being a Debate Between John Thomas and a Presbyterian Clergyman [john S. Watt] Thirty-Four Years Ago on the Popular Doctrines of Immortality, Heaven, Hell, Election, and Kindred Topics General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: G.J. Stevenson Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint... more » of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECOND DAY. Mr. Watt. -- He would take another text, though it was not his intention to preach from it; he might not mention it again ; he should quote it, however, as the motto of his sermon. He did not take it from the Bible, but it was made up of four lines of poetry. " Hear the just judgment of the Supremely Wise 1 He that hates truth shall be the dupe of lies; And he that will be cheated to the last, Delusion strong as hell shall bind him fast." In proceeding to address the audience, he observed that they had heard how pertinacious Dr. Thomas had been in bringing before them the merits of the Presbyterian Church. He had dwelt a good deal upon the division in that body, and had attributed it to the Confession of Faith: but this was not the reason of the split; the leading cause was the unfortunate question about abolition. For himself, ho believed in Jesus Christ, and in nothing else. In saying that he did not believe in the Confession, he did not consider that he had renounced it, If there was any important perversion in it, he would reject that. Presbyterians do not believe in the Confession because it is the composition of men, but because it is a correct interpretation of Scripture. For himself, he held to the Confession, which he loved as well as the church, in which he gloried, because of the piety and morality of its professors. Look at the history of the ...« less