The Protestants continued to insist upon that right of private judgment in religion, which the Catholics continued to deny.
In fact, the points to be proved are exceedingly few, and those not above the reach of private judgment, or difficult.
The objection is, apparently, the objection we ourselves bring to the Protestant rule of faith, namely, the Bible interpreted by private judgment.
The Bible may be the word of God and infallible, but my interpretation of it, or my private judgment in interpreting it, is fallible, and therefore I have in it and with it only a fallible rule of faith.
Still he forcibly appeals to his reader on the necessity of private judgment in divine things.
The taking advice in so important a step must be proper; but any pledge to abide by it, contrary to the conscientious conviction of the individual, would be a violation of the duty of private judgment.
Here, at least, in the domain of science, there is no exaltation of private judgment, no rebellion against scientific authority; and it is a wise and a just arrangement that it should be so.
This procedure they call 'the right of private judgment.
Private judgment, therefore, is not only a right, but a duty, from which no man can exonerate himself or be exonerated by others.
The exercise of private judgment in what primarily concerns salvation must always lead one astray, because articles of faith are not creatures of human intelligence, neither are they within its compass to understand.
He had, of course, a private judgment shackled by contradictions, as every subscriber of the Thirty-nine Articles has.
When I reason with an opponent,” says he, “I do not invade his acknowledged right of private judgment, nor do I require of him to surrender that judgment to me.
Tattershall, in his published sermon on the “Nature and Extent of the Right of Private Judgment.
Footnote 89: Sermon on the Nature and Extent of the Right of Private Judgment p.
I can answer for no one but myself, for we have no theological standards, nor any restriction on the exercise of private judgment, on such subjects.
About thirty thousand peasants are stated to have been slaughtered on this occasion, when the new Reformation may be said to have been baptized, and the right of private judgment according to Luther fully vindicated.
That principle is the right of private judgment to resist the supreme authority of the Catholic Church.
It is a return at last to the old Protestant principle of private judgment, with a substitution of something far more difficult than the Bible in place of the Bible which Luther substituted for the church.
So long as private judgment is supposed to be directed by a supernatural light of the Holy Spirit, and to possess in Scripture and tradition, or in Scripture alone, a positive revelation, Protestantism is a kind of Christianity.
Döllinger with the Archbishop of Munich consists in an appeal from the supreme authority in the church to the principle of private judgment.
If the latter is {9} to be accepted, or rejected, by private judgment, why not the former?
There exists, then, in the bosom of every great religion a dissolving force; namely, the very force which served in the beginning to constitute it and to enable it to triumph over its predecessor: the right of private judgment.
Protestantism unwittingly contained in its own bosom the germ of the negation of every positive religion that does not address itself exclusively and directly to private judgment, to the moral sense of the individual.
The very image and shadow of authority have disappeared from the Protestantism of our age, each day more and more dissipated in the thousand shades of private judgment.
The High Church party used to say, as a point against the Evangelicals, that either 'the right of private judgment' meant nothing, or it meant that a man had a right to be in the wrong.
The utmost 'right of private judgment' which anybody claims in such cases, is the choice of the physician to whom he will trust his body, or of the counsel to whom he will commit the conduct of his cause.
No one talks of 'a right of private judgment' in anything but religion; no one but a fool insists on his 'right to his own opinion' with his lawyer or his doctor.
If the latter is to be accepted, or rejected, by private judgment, why not the former?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private judgment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
