Practical and Internal Evidence Against Catholicism,: With Occasional Strictures on Mr. Butler's Book of the Roman Catholic Church: in Six Letters, Addressed to the Impartial Among the Roman Catholics of Great Britain and IrelandJohn Murray, Albemarle-street., 1826 - 351 pages |
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... virgins and saints which give them both that pe- culiar denomination and their popular charm ; more than half the blind deference which the multitude pay to the clergy , and through the clergy to Rome , would quickly disappear . The ...
... virgins and saints which give them both that pe- culiar denomination and their popular charm ; more than half the blind deference which the multitude pay to the clergy , and through the clergy to Rome , would quickly disappear . The ...
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... virginity , by its own intrinsic merit , and without reference to some virtuous pur- pose , which may not be attainable otherwise than by the sacrifice of the tender passions of the heart ; has a mysterious value in the eyes of God : a ...
... virginity , by its own intrinsic merit , and without reference to some virtuous pur- pose , which may not be attainable otherwise than by the sacrifice of the tender passions of the heart ; has a mysterious value in the eyes of God : a ...
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... virginity be the virtue , not ( as I believe ) the condition of angels : let it be desirable , as Saint Augustine expresses himself somewhere , that man- kind were blotted from the face of the earth by the operation of celibacy * . Let ...
... virginity be the virtue , not ( as I believe ) the condition of angels : let it be desirable , as Saint Augustine expresses himself somewhere , that man- kind were blotted from the face of the earth by the operation of celibacy * . Let ...
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... virgin- plots ; such were the laws confirmed at Trent by the wild uproar of a crowd of bishops , of whom but few could have cast the first stone at the adul- teress , dismissed to sin no more by the Saviour . 66 Accursed , accursed be ...
... virgin- plots ; such were the laws confirmed at Trent by the wild uproar of a crowd of bishops , of whom but few could have cast the first stone at the adul- teress , dismissed to sin no more by the Saviour . 66 Accursed , accursed be ...
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... virgins to protect them from insult . The sea refuses to drown those who are committed to its waters ; and when com- pelled to do that odious service , the waves generally convey the dead bodies where the Christians may preserve them as ...
... virgins to protect them from insult . The sea refuses to drown those who are committed to its waters ; and when com- pelled to do that odious service , the waves generally convey the dead bodies where the Christians may preserve them as ...
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Page 12 - but here was nothing that could check sympathy, or smother the reviving sentiments of natural religion, which Paley had awakened. It happened that, before the sermon, was given Addison's beautiful hymn, When all thy mercies, O my God ! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I 'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 291 - 20. •(•" Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men ; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 291 - mighty, not many noble are called; but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, that no flesh should glory in his presence *.'
Page 12 - rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I 'm lost In wonder, love, and praise. At the end of the second verse my eyes were streaming with tears ; and I believe that from that day I never passed one without some ardent aspirations towards the Author of my life and existence.
Page 32 - of CHRIST, and that he is HEAD OF THE WHOLE CHURCH, and the Father and Teacher of all Christians; and that to him in St. Peter was delegated by our Lord Jesus Christ full power to feed, rule
Page 121 - of the Book of the Roman Catholic Church, " that the Roman Catholics believe the doctrines of their church to be unchangeable; and that it is a tenet of their creed, that what their faith ever has been, such it was from the beginning, such it now is, and such it
Page 32 - Moreover we define that the holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have a primacy over the whole world, and that the Roman pontiff himself is the successor of St. Peter, the chief of the Apostles, and true VICAR (or Representative,
Page 295 - in Christ, by the salutary atonement of all Christian people. We have therefore resolved, in virtue of the authority given to us by Heaven, fully to unlock that sacred treasure, composed of the merits, sufferings, and virtues of Christ our Lord, and of his Virgin Mother, and of all the saints, which the Author of human salvation has intrusted to our dispensation.
Page 347 - the future, that we may be preserved from all adversities and perils, both in life and death, through the cross and merits of the Lamb, who redeemed and washed us in his blood. ..,,.;, The Pope consecrates the Agnus Dei's the first year of his pontificate, and afterwards every seventh year on Saturday before
Page 231 - totiusque ecclesiae caput, et omnium Christianorum patrem ac doctorem existere ; et ipsi in beato Petro pascendi, regendi, ac gubernandi universalem ecclesiam a Domino nostro Jesu Christo plenum