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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... true that , like every art , the art of life is most perfectly practised by those who follow the golden rule of moderation . If there is anything our age needs it is the re - discovery of the old Greek principle of μndèv åyav — nothing ...
... true that , like every art , the art of life is most perfectly practised by those who follow the golden rule of moderation . If there is anything our age needs it is the re - discovery of the old Greek principle of μndèv åyav — nothing ...
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... true in the new . " The main desire of the Christian soul to - day is to make sure of the essentials of the Faith and to find in those essentials guidance amid the perplexities of the modern world . And more and more it is being ...
... true in the new . " The main desire of the Christian soul to - day is to make sure of the essentials of the Faith and to find in those essentials guidance amid the perplexities of the modern world . And more and more it is being ...
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... true and vital principle . Yet it involves great dangers , for it sets free the mind of the individual in a way which may produce complete licence . How , then , are liberty and order to be reconciled ? The example of science affords ...
... true and vital principle . Yet it involves great dangers , for it sets free the mind of the individual in a way which may produce complete licence . How , then , are liberty and order to be reconciled ? The example of science affords ...
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... true that the teachings of Christ give us the first principles of all social well- being , for the reason that they give the first principles of morality ; it is also true that there is no trace of a social programme . Christ proclaimed ...
... true that the teachings of Christ give us the first principles of all social well- being , for the reason that they give the first principles of morality ; it is also true that there is no trace of a social programme . Christ proclaimed ...
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... true inner meaning of the movement is unmistakable . Nor were the forces behind this great revolt those of mere ignorant or unthinking reaction against con- stituted authority . Abelard , undoubtedly one of the greatest scholars and ...
... true inner meaning of the movement is unmistakable . Nor were the forces behind this great revolt those of mere ignorant or unthinking reaction against con- stituted authority . Abelard , undoubtedly one of the greatest scholars and ...
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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.