Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

hierarchy, with its titles and magnificent dwellings,
pleased the aristocracy, and brought over to the
Church of Rome, many of the wealthy and
cultured, and of the nobility. Simple evangelical
Christianity, as Jesus lived it, is not acceptable to
the proud and worldly heart. The papal aggression
of 1850 was another blow in favor of Rome. As
Stanley says of it, “The general reaction of a large
part of the religious sentiment of England and of
Europe towards Rome was undoubted.”[37]
The case of “Essays and Reviews”
Of the problems raised by the famous case,
known as “Essays and Reviews,” Westcott wrote:
“Of all cares, almost the greatest which I have
had, has been ‘Essays and Reviews,’ and its
opponents. The controversy is fairly turning me
grey. I look on the assailants of the Essayists, from
bishops downwards, as likely to do far more harm
to the Church and the Truth than the
Essayists.”[38]
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