The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants. Nor is it of any account, in the estimation of the genuine Protestant, how early a doctrine originated, if it is not found in the Bible. He learns from the New Testament itself that there were errors in the time of the apostles, and that their pens were frequently employed in combating those errors. Hence, if a doctrine be propounded for its acceptance, he asks, Is it to be found in the inspired Word? Was it taught by the Lord Jesus Christ and His apostles? If they knew nothing of it, no matter to him whether it be discovered in the musty folio of some ancient visionary of the third or fourth century, or whether it sprang from the fertile brain of some modern visionary of the nineteenth; if it is not found in the Sacred Scriptures, it presents no valid claim to be received as an article of his religious creed. More than this, we will add that, tho Cyprian, or Jerome, or Augustine, or even the fathers of an earlier age, Tertullian, Ignatius, or Irenæus, could be plainly shown to teach the unscriptural doctrines and dogmas of popery, which, however, is by no means admitted, still the consistent Protestant would simply ask, Is the doctrine to be found in the Bible? Was it taught by Christ and His apostles? And if truth compelled an answer in the negative, he would esteem it of no greater authority as an article of his faith than the vagaries of John of Munster, the dreams of Joanna Southcote, or the pretended revelations tions of Joe Smith, of Nauvoo. The Bible, and not, as has recently been asserted, “the Bible and tradition,” but “the Bible only is the religion of Protestants.”—Dowling’s History of Romanism.