A sure way to find out the true religion : being conversations between a protestant and a catholic - Conversations IV

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Protestant. - You promised me that you would help me to examine and determine how far the Protestant church had a right to claim the four marks of truth, viz :-Unity, Holiness, Catholicity, and Apostolicity. I am exceedingly glad, therefore, that we have at last met to decide this truly important question. I have lately been reading the history of the change of religion in this country (commonly called the Reformation), under Henry VIIJ. and his successors, or the change which then took place, from the Catholic to the Protestant faith; and I must own that Henry VIII., and those who acted with him, were most disgraceful characters ; and the thought struck me very forcibly, that the God of holiness would never have sent such wicked men as those to make a new religion. Catholic.- Your observations are very sensible and just, but not exactly to the point we have in hand: remember, we have to decide whether the Protestant religion is one, holy, Catholic and apostolical.... [Excerpt]