PROTESTANT AND PAPAL by L. D. Santee

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1878

PROTESTANT AND PAPAL.

By L. D. Santee

The following I clip from an Episcopalian catechism. Sunday heads the “Popish Precepts,” while the commands of God is the Protestant rule. L. D. Santee.

POPISH PRECEPTS.

“Sundays and holidays mass thou shalt hear, And holidays sanctify through all the year. Lent, Ember days, and Vigils thou shalt fast, And on all Fridays flesh thou shalt not taste. In Lent and Advent nuptial feasts forbear. Confess your sins at least once every year. Receive your God about great Easter-day, And to his Church neglect not dues to pay.”

“THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE CHURCH,” from a Popish Catechism, by the Rev. Dr. Reilly.—Dublin, 1844.

PROTESTANT PRECEPTS.

“Keep God’s command, no graven image use; Before no wafer-idol bow the knee; No fancied Queen of Heaven for Saviour choose; No priestly absolution make your plea; Think not mere outward forms can grace impart; All doctrines by the Holy Bible prove; Ask, through the promised Spirit, a new heart; And seek by Christ alone the Father’s love.”