The Papacy - And the Civil Power #231041

N ot so with the Protestant. He appeals to reason; ex amines history for himself; weighs both evidence and argu ment; and exercises his own intelligent judgment in sepa rating right from wrong, truth from falsehood. While the papacy demands implicit and passive obedience — the entire submission of the whole man, by the sacrifice of all his sense of personality — Protestantism encourages and develops this sense by treating every individual as endowed with the fac ulty of reason, and as possessing the right to employ it for himself. Manifestly, he who does not do it is mere clay in the hands of the potter.