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Chaffer, if a Hamme, Kind of Tomed E I.
i i want to urge our listeners to consider what i have just said in light of these words from the nineteenth century presbyterian theologian william greenof thayer shedd. The papal church once sought to make christianity a universal religion by adopting pagan rites and ceremonies. Charlemagne would provide universal salvation for saxons by forcing them to be baptized at the point of a sword. It is the repetition, within the province of doctrinal theology, of an attempt often made in former ages in practical propagandism. Those denominations are guilty of considering doctrine to be devisive, theology troublesome and convictions inconvenient. And conversely, they're guilty, as doctor chaffer said