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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... position in the Christian world is essentially central . Impatient spirits may dislike the via media and seek other ... position of their Church . It is not too much to say that never before in the history of Anglicanism was the value of ...
... position in the Christian world is essentially central . Impatient spirits may dislike the via media and seek other ... position of their Church . It is not too much to say that never before in the history of Anglicanism was the value of ...
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... position which is wholly irreconcilable with mediaeval methods of thought . The aim of the former is to produce an obedient laity , disciplined through the con- fessional , and satisfied with the sacramental ministrations of the Church ...
... position which is wholly irreconcilable with mediaeval methods of thought . The aim of the former is to produce an obedient laity , disciplined through the con- fessional , and satisfied with the sacramental ministrations of the Church ...
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... position which is morally inex- pugnable . This is the stronghold of an Athanasius contra mundum . It is Luther's " Here I stand . 1 Murray , op . cit . ch . iv . p . 135. See pp . 130 ff . I can do no other . " Two principles are ...
... position which is morally inex- pugnable . This is the stronghold of an Athanasius contra mundum . It is Luther's " Here I stand . 1 Murray , op . cit . ch . iv . p . 135. See pp . 130 ff . I can do no other . " Two principles are ...
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... position of one who in our time deliberately submits himself to the authority of the Papal See . Here the claim to infallibility is urged with all the parade of great pre- tensions . If a mind is merely overwhelmed by these pretensions ...
... position of one who in our time deliberately submits himself to the authority of the Papal See . Here the claim to infallibility is urged with all the parade of great pre- tensions . If a mind is merely overwhelmed by these pretensions ...
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... position of supremacy in accordance with the ideas of the periods to which they correspond . In primitive times , the things to which the Apostles witnessed were accepted . In the centuries that followed , this witness became ...
... position of supremacy in accordance with the ideas of the periods to which they correspond . In primitive times , the things to which the Apostles witnessed were accepted . In the centuries that followed , this witness became ...
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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.