OR, A CHURCHMAN'S DEFENCE AGAINST ITS ASPERSIONS, BY AN APPEAL TO ITS OWN HISTORY. "Tender stomachs that cannot endure milk, but can very well digest iron." Jeremy Taylor's Works, vi. cccxxxv. "Laud was justified by the men whom he had wronged." Bancroft's United States, i. 451. BY THOMAS W. COIT, D.D., RECTOR OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEW-ROCHELLE, N. Y., AND A MEMBER OF THE D NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA: GEO. S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT-ST. MDCCCXLV. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by THOMAS W. COIT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. ་་ 'They tell us, that on the highest of the Capsian mountains in Spain, there is a lake, whereinto if you throw a stone, there presently ascends a smoke, which forms a dense cloud, from whence issues a tempest of rain, hail, and horrid thunder-claps, for a good quarter of an hour. Our Church History will be like a stone cast into that lake, for the furious tempest which it will raise among some, whose ecclesiastical dignities have set them, as on the top of Spanish mountains."MATHER'S MAGNALIA, i. 35, edit. 1820. |