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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... past failings . It recognises that the faults which brought about the divisions of Christendom are not on one side only . The proposals of the Lambeth " Appeal " provide exactly the framework required to exhibit in clear perspective the ...
... past failings . It recognises that the faults which brought about the divisions of Christendom are not on one side only . The proposals of the Lambeth " Appeal " provide exactly the framework required to exhibit in clear perspective the ...
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... past to the present , shall be possessed in common and made serviceable to the whole Body of Christ . Within this unity Christian Communions now separated from one another would retain much that has long been dis- tinctive in their ...
... past to the present , shall be possessed in common and made serviceable to the whole Body of Christ . Within this unity Christian Communions now separated from one another would retain much that has long been dis- tinctive in their ...
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... past movements of the kind prove that they do not maintain themselves . Lacking these essential elements of the Christian organic life they tend to disappear . On the other hand , the Churches which have kept the two great sacraments as ...
... past movements of the kind prove that they do not maintain themselves . Lacking these essential elements of the Christian organic life they tend to disappear . On the other hand , the Churches which have kept the two great sacraments as ...
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... past . It is surely manifest that within the framework thus indicated there can be a union of Christian order with Christian liberty such as the world has never yet seen . Here is scope for the individual , and ample space for the ...
... past . It is surely manifest that within the framework thus indicated there can be a union of Christian order with Christian liberty such as the world has never yet seen . Here is scope for the individual , and ample space for the ...
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... past the Christian Church , claiming monarchy over the whole domain of human life , endeavoured to stifle thought , and thus brought about on the one hand an ecclesiastical terrorism which shocked the conscience of mankind , and on the ...
... past the Christian Church , claiming monarchy over the whole domain of human life , endeavoured to stifle thought , and thus brought about on the one hand an ecclesiastical terrorism which shocked the conscience of mankind , and on the ...
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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 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 8 - ... the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.
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 218 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
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.