Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

foundation of the Christian system. When the
triumvirate approached their task of revision, with
their scheme to advocate their new system of
doctrines, Dean Farrar says that “hundreds of
texts” were so changed that the Revisers restored
conceptions “profound and remarkable” in the
“verbs expressive of the great crises of Christian
life.”[23]
The great crises of Christian life are set forth by
Protestants in words and practices different from
Catholics. In the great crisis, when the Protestant is
under conviction of sin, he reveals it by deep
sorrow and contrition; the Catholic by going to
Mass. In the crisis of that moment when the soul is
moved by repentance, the Protestant speaks forth
his heart to God, alone or in the assembly of
fellow-believers; the Catholic goes to confess to a
priest and so exalts the confessional to the doctrine
of the Sacrament of Confession. In that crisis,
when forgiveness of sins is experienced, the
Protestant is conscious of God’s pardon by faith in
His Word; the Catholic hears the priest say, “I
absolve thee,” which indicates the power of the
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