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Excerpt from A Reply by J. K. L. To the Late Charge of the Most Rev. Doctor Magee, Protestant Archbishop of Dublin: Submitted, Most Respectfully, to Those to Whom the Above Charge Was Addressed

The Apostle Paul, writes this Holy Father, in his 162d letter, has said, an heretical man, after one reproof, avoid; knowing, that he who is of this sort is subverted and sins, and is self-condemned; but they who defend, not with an obstinate animosity, thelr own Opinion though false and perverse, especially if it be an opinion, which they did not originate in the assurance of their own pre sumption, but which they received from their parents, seduced and fallen into error, and who, seeking the truth with a cautious solicitude, are ready on finding it to be corrected, they are not by any means to be reputed among heretics. Unless I believed you to be such, perhaps I should not address any letters to you. Thus far prof ceeds this learned and charitable Bishop, who, separating the well meaning from the perverse amongst those who were not of his communion, discusses with an energy and freedom quite apostolical, the ¿anses of that separation which he deplored. This spirit of charity and zeal excited him to exclaim in another letter upon the same subject, non debet tot tantorumque populorum salutem fm'iosus error hominum z'mpedz're paucorum. The furious error of a few men should not be suffered to prevent the salvation of so many,-of so numerous apeople. Ep. 61. Ad Dulcitium. Thus Augustin, whilst he looks with an eye of charity to the multitudes seduced into the ways of error, expresses himself with peculiar energy when his thoughts are directed to the authors, the fomentors, the preachers of religious dissension.

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