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... curiosity , our indolence or timidity , might prompt us to ask . There is need nowadays of the warn- ing of a seventeenth century divine , " A false conceit is crept into the minds of men , to 6 THE BIBLE IN THE CHURCH .
... curiosity , our indolence or timidity , might prompt us to ask . There is need nowadays of the warn- ing of a seventeenth century divine , " A false conceit is crept into the minds of men , to 6 THE BIBLE IN THE CHURCH .
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... centuries , viz . that Scripture is the ultimate criterion of the Church's teaching on matters of faith . Our sixth Article is simply stating the uni- versal belief of early ages in its declaration that " whatsoever is not read therein ...
... centuries , viz . that Scripture is the ultimate criterion of the Church's teaching on matters of faith . Our sixth Article is simply stating the uni- versal belief of early ages in its declaration that " whatsoever is not read therein ...
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authority , such as Cardinal du Perron1 . As late as the eighteenth century the Gallican doctor du Pin approved of our sixth Article in language to the following effect : " This ( viz . that Scripture contains all things neces- sary to ...
authority , such as Cardinal du Perron1 . As late as the eighteenth century the Gallican doctor du Pin approved of our sixth Article in language to the following effect : " This ( viz . that Scripture contains all things neces- sary to ...
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... century , -the tendency to enlarge the area of what is de fide . To Andrewes it appeared that the Roman controversialists of his day were lack- ing in the sense of proportion . Bellarmine , for instance , refused the title " Catholic ...
... century , -the tendency to enlarge the area of what is de fide . To Andrewes it appeared that the Roman controversialists of his day were lack- ing in the sense of proportion . Bellarmine , for instance , refused the title " Catholic ...
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... by the authority of S. Augustine . The reasons , however , why his authority on this point is not for a moment to be weighed against the testimony of the four preceding centuries are overwhelmingly strong , but cannot be discussed here.
... by the authority of S. Augustine . The reasons , however , why his authority on this point is not for a moment to be weighed against the testimony of the four preceding centuries are overwhelmingly strong , but cannot be discussed here.
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Page 69 - When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
Page 17 - The Holy Scriptures contain all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 257 - Et sicut opertorium mutabis eos, et mutabuntur: * tu autem idem ipse es, et anni tui non deficient.
Page 78 - For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.
Page 44 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 77 - GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
Page 14 - For whatsoever we believe concerning salvation by Christ, although the Scripture be therein the ground of our belief; yet the authority of man is, if we mark it, the key which openeth the door of entrance into the knowledge of the Scripture.
Page 21 - It is not necessary that traditions and ceremonies be in all places one, or utterly like ; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's Word.
Page 58 - BELOVED, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
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