Anglican Essays: A Collective Review of the Principles and Special Opportunities of the Anglican Communion as Catholic and ReformedWilliam Lang Paige Cox |
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... primitive Gospel . Even in an age of great ignorance there survived a tradition , or sprang up a vision , of the truth that Christianity is , in essence , not an imperial system , but a free life of the soul inspired by a direct ...
... primitive Gospel . Even in an age of great ignorance there survived a tradition , or sprang up a vision , of the truth that Christianity is , in essence , not an imperial system , but a free life of the soul inspired by a direct ...
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... primitive in their faith were the followers of Peter Waldo , the poor men of Lyons . Their inspiration came directly from the reading of the Gospels , which Peter had caused to be translated into the vulgar tongue . Going forth two by ...
... primitive in their faith were the followers of Peter Waldo , the poor men of Lyons . Their inspiration came directly from the reading of the Gospels , which Peter had caused to be translated into the vulgar tongue . Going forth two by ...
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... primitive possessions of the Christian ethos . They come before all developments of doctrine.1 In considering this question it is worth while to turn aside for a moment from the agitating contro- versies of theology and consider the ...
... primitive possessions of the Christian ethos . They come before all developments of doctrine.1 In considering this question it is worth while to turn aside for a moment from the agitating contro- versies of theology and consider the ...
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... primitive times , the things to which the Apostles witnessed were accepted . In the centuries that followed , this witness became transformed into the consensus of the Christian community , as proved by the confession of the assembled ...
... primitive times , the things to which the Apostles witnessed were accepted . In the centuries that followed , this witness became transformed into the consensus of the Christian community , as proved by the confession of the assembled ...
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... primitive age is considered , the more true and just will be found the statement of our Art . XX . that " although the Church be a witness and keeper of Holy Writ , yet , as it ought not to decree anything against the same , so besides ...
... primitive age is considered , the more true and just will be found the statement of our Art . XX . that " although the Church be a witness and keeper of Holy Writ , yet , as it ought not to decree anything against the same , so besides ...
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Page 144 - Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy Writ ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
Page 176 - After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.
Page 144 - The offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual ; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone.
Page 68 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 27 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets.
Page 20 - All things have been delivered unto me of my Father : and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father ; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him.
Page 65 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection . As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born.
Page 145 - I AB do solemnly make the following Declaration: "I assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and to the book of Common Prayer and of the ordering of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. I believe the Doctrine of the United Church of England and Ireland, as therein set forth, to be agreeable to the Word of God...
Page 64 - Protector of civil society, without which civil society man could not by any possibility arrive at the perfection of which his nature is capable, nor even make a remote and faint approach to it.
Page 219 - And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But he said, Yea rather blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it.