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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... question of the relation of the Church to the Bible . The doubts and controversies of the present day drive us back to an authority superior to both , the Divine Logos . In Christ , the Word of God , we find the principle which can ...
... question of the relation of the Church to the Bible . The doubts and controversies of the present day drive us back to an authority superior to both , the Divine Logos . In Christ , the Word of God , we find the principle which can ...
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... question than that which inquires into the nature and limits of individual liberty . But this great inquiry is not for us . We have to think of the relation of Christianity to the great human problems of our time . The mission of ...
... question than that which inquires into the nature and limits of individual liberty . But this great inquiry is not for us . We have to think of the relation of Christianity to the great human problems of our time . The mission of ...
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... question it is worth while to turn aside for a moment from the agitating contro- versies of theology and consider the calmer realm of science . It is important to reflect that the whole wonderful progress of scientific discovery and its ...
... question it is worth while to turn aside for a moment from the agitating contro- versies of theology and consider the calmer realm of science . It is important to reflect that the whole wonderful progress of scientific discovery and its ...
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... question of words . The essence of the whole matter is that no controversy can be settled by the fiat of any man , or any society of men , or by the authority of any tradition or body of teaching . Only by evidence and demonstration of ...
... question of words . The essence of the whole matter is that no controversy can be settled by the fiat of any man , or any society of men , or by the authority of any tradition or body of teaching . Only by evidence and demonstration of ...
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... question . When we come to the time of St. Augustine we find Holy Scripture employed in much the same way that it is used by the uncritical expositor of modern times . At the Reformation , however , when great bodies of Christians ...
... question . When we come to the time of St. Augustine we find Holy Scripture employed in much the same way that it is used by the uncritical expositor of modern times . At the Reformation , however , when great bodies of Christians ...
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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.