Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Wiseman organized again the Catholic hierarchy in
Great Britain, a step which convulsed England
from end to end, will be subjects for later
consideration. Suffice it now to say that Wiseman
lived long enough to exult openly[31] that the King
James Version had been thrust aside and the
preeminence of the Vulgate reestablished by the
influence of his attacks and those of other textual
critics.
The gnosticism of German theology invades
England Coleridge, Thirwall, Stanley, Westcott
By 1833 the issue was becoming clearly
defined. It was Premillenarianism, that is, belief in
the return of Christ before the millennium, or
Liberalism; it was with regard to the Scriptures,
literalism or allegorism. As Cadman says of the
Evangelicals of that day:
“Their fatalism inclined many of them to
Premillenariansim as a refuge from the
approaching catastrophes of the present
dispensation... Famous divines strengthened and
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