The Christian Year: Its Purpose and Its History, Volume 45; Volume 683 |
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... festival year is a bulwark of orthodoxy as real as our con- fessions of faith . " - Archer Butler . THE question of the age or origin of particular festi- vals or fasts is not so important as the practical and his- torical grounds on ...
... festival year is a bulwark of orthodoxy as real as our con- fessions of faith . " - Archer Butler . THE question of the age or origin of particular festi- vals or fasts is not so important as the practical and his- torical grounds on ...
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... festival , which it makes manifest also to the eye by means of ecclesiastical colors adapted to the seasons . The Christian Year is thus the skeleton on which the Prayer Book and the whole system of the Church's teaching are framed . It ...
... festival , which it makes manifest also to the eye by means of ecclesiastical colors adapted to the seasons . The Christian Year is thus the skeleton on which the Prayer Book and the whole system of the Church's teaching are framed . It ...
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... festivals and fasts . The people of Israel had a ritual year by divine direction and particular ordinances . Nor are ... festival days wherewith to fill out the year , placing them from September 17th to 21st . These it devoted respect ...
... festivals and fasts . The people of Israel had a ritual year by divine direction and particular ordinances . Nor are ... festival days wherewith to fill out the year , placing them from September 17th to 21st . These it devoted respect ...
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... festival solemnities are a part of the public exercise of religion . " He quotes S. Augustine as saying , " By festival solemnities and set days we dedicate and sanctify to God the memory of His benefits , lest unthankful forgetfulness ...
... festival solemnities are a part of the public exercise of religion . " He quotes S. Augustine as saying , " By festival solemnities and set days we dedicate and sanctify to God the memory of His benefits , lest unthankful forgetfulness ...
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... festival was originally of heathen origin . The law required every one to go to work , and that every keeper of a closed shop should be brought before the judge and punished . This con- dition of things lasted for sixteen years . 66 ...
... festival was originally of heathen origin . The law required every one to go to work , and that every keeper of a closed shop should be brought before the judge and punished . This con- dition of things lasted for sixteen years . 66 ...
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Page 82 - THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name ; evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory : Glory be to thee, 0 Lord Most High.
Page 86 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward: O ! why should heavenly God to men have such regard?
Page 124 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 39 - It is evident unto all men, diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient Authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church — Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Page 70 - WHEN God of old came down from Heaven, In power and wrath He came ; Before His feet the clouds were riven, Half darkness and half flame. Around the trembling mountain's base The prostrate people lay ; A day of wrath, and not of grace ; A dim and dreadful day.
Page 38 - Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the holy Scripture we do understand those canonical Books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church.
Page 118 - AT length the worst is o'er, and Thou art laid Deep in Thy darksome bed ; All still and cold beneath yon dreary stone Thy sacred form is gone ; Around those lips where power and mercy hung, The dews of death have clung ; The dull earth o'er Thee, and Thy foes around, Thou sleep'st a silent corse, in funeral fetters wound.
Page 122 - O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.
Page 22 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 115 - Lamb's high feast we sing Praise to our victorious King, Who hath washed us in the tide Flowing from His pierced side ; Praise we Him, Whose love divine Gives His sacred blood for wine, Gives His body for the feast, Christ the victim, Christ the priest.