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The works of Laurence Sterne ... / with a life of the author, written by himself.

  • Laurence Sterne
Date:
1803
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Credit: The works of Laurence Sterne ... / with a life of the author, written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4*3 —-and grounded, not upon apocryphal ac¬ counts and legendary inventions, the ward¬ robe from whence popery dreffes out her faints on thefe days,—but upon matters of fait in the facred Scriptures, in which all Chriftians agree.-And fince I have mentioned popery, I cannot better conclude than by obierving, how ill the fpirit and character of that church refembles that particular part of St. Peter's which has been made the fubjeit of this dif- courfe.-Would one think that a church, which thrufts itfelf under this apoftle's patro¬ nage, and claims her power under him, would prefume to exceed the degrees of it, which he acknowledged to poffets himfelf?—But how ill are your expectations anfwered, when, inftead of the humble declaration in the text,-Te men of Ifrael, marvel not at us, as if our own power and holinefs had wrought this ;-you hear a language and behaviour from the Romifh court, as oppofite to it as infolent words and aitions can frame.-- So that inftead of, Ye men of Ifrae], marvel not at us,-Ye men of Ifrael, do marvel at us,—hold us in admiration :——- Approach our facred pontiff-(who is not only holy-but holinefs itfelf) —approach his perfon with reverence, and deem it the greateft honour and happmefs of your lives to fall down before his chair, and be admit¬ ted to kifs his feet.- Think not, as if it were not our own holinefs which merits all the homage you can