Plain Facts

              Pratt, Parley P. Plain Facts, Showing The Falsehood And Folly of The Rev C. S. Bush. ( A
Church Minister of the Parish of Peover,) Being a Reply to His Tract Against the Latter- day
Saints, 1– 8. Manchester: W. R. Thomas, 1840.

PLAIN FACTS,
SHOWING THE FLASEHOOD AND FOLLY OF
THE REV C. S. BUSH,
(A Church Minister of the Parish of Peover,)
BEING A
REPLY TO HIS TRACT AGAINST THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS.
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WE have a Tract now in our possession, purporting to be written by the Rev Mr. BUSH. Entitled,
“Plain Facts, showing the falsehood and folly of the Mormonites or Latter-day Saints,” &c.
The writer commences by saying, “With plain and honest people, facts are always
important things.”
He then lays down the following for his first fact. He says, “The Bible is the word of
God, and that there is no other Revelation of him, than that which he has given us in that Book of
Life.”
Now, we admit that the Bible contains the word of God: but the statement that there is no
other Revelation of him than that which he has given in the Bible is not a fact, but a falsehood of
the most glaring kind; being contrary to the word of God, and to the experience of all Christians,
as we shall now proceed to demonstrate.
The Bible quotes more than twelve books, which are not to be found in it—most, if not
all of which, were written by prophets or seers, whose inspiration the Bible itself acknowledges.
We will here mention a few of these books.
Book of Jasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua c. x, v. 13.
Book of the Acts of Solomon . . . . 1 Kings, c. xi, v. 41
Book of Nathan the prophet
Book of Gad the seer . . . . . . } 1 Chron. c. xxix, v. 29.
Book of Nathan the prophet . . . . . .
Book of the Prophecy of Ahijah . .
Book of the Visions of Iddo the seer }2 Chron. c. ix, v. 29.
Book of Shemaiah the prophet
Book of Iddo the seer . . . . . . . .
} 2 Chron. c. xii, v. 15.
“Written in the story of the prophet Iddo.” 2 Chron. c. xiii, v. 22.
If necessary, we could bring quotations in the Bible for several other books, some in the
Old Testament, and some in the writings of the apostles, referring to epistles which are not in the
Bible. [1]