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 Ireland |
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... believe whatever the holy mother church holds and be- lieves , " is the compendious creed of every member of the Roman communion . Had my doubts af- fected any particular doctrine , I should have clung to the decisions of a church which ...
... believe whatever the holy mother church holds and be- lieves , " is the compendious creed of every member of the Roman communion . Had my doubts af- fected any particular doctrine , I should have clung to the decisions of a church which ...
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... believe whatever the holy mother church holds and be- lieves , " is the compendious creed of every member of the Roman communion . Had my doubts af- fected any particular doctrine , I should have clung to the decisions of a church which ...
... believe whatever the holy mother church holds and be- lieves , " is the compendious creed of every member of the Roman communion . Had my doubts af- fected any particular doctrine , I should have clung to the decisions of a church which ...
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... believe it unanswerable . Was , then , Christianity nothing but a groundless fabric , the world supported by the elephant , the elephant standing on the tortoise ? Such was the conclusion to which I was led by a system which impresses ...
... believe it unanswerable . Was , then , Christianity nothing but a groundless fabric , the world supported by the elephant , the elephant standing on the tortoise ? Such was the conclusion to which I was led by a system which impresses ...
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... believe , appeared to me solemn and affecting . I had not for many years entered a church without feelings of irrita- tion and hostility , arising from the ideas of op- pressive tyranny which it called up in my mind ; but here was ...
... believe , appeared to me solemn and affecting . I had not for many years entered a church without feelings of irrita- tion and hostility , arising from the ideas of op- pressive tyranny which it called up in my mind ; but here was ...
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... believe to be a very common error in this matter- an error which I have not been able completely to correct , without a very long study of the subject and myself . I expected that general evidence would remove the natural ...
... believe to be a very common error in this matter- an error which I have not been able completely to correct , without a very long study of the subject and myself . I expected that general evidence would remove the natural ...
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Page 69 - Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
Page 149 - 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 67 - Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these ? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord ; thou knowest that I love thee.
Page 149 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath 'chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 35 - This true catholic faith, out of which none can be saved, which I now freely profess, and truly hold, I, N. promise, vow and swear most constantly to hold and profess the same whole and entire, with God's assistance, to the end of my life...
Page 2 - WHEN all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 76 - I also profess and undoubtedly receive all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred canons and general councils, and particularly by the holy Council of Trent ; and likewise I also condemn, reject, and anathematize all things contrary thereto, and all heresies whatsoever, condemned, rejected, and anathematized by the Church.
Page 68 - Praeterea ad coercenda petulantia ingenia, decernit, ut nemo, suae prudentiae innixus, in rebus fidei, et morum ad aedificationem doctrinae christianae pertinentium, sacram scripturam ad suos sensus contorquens, contra eum sensum, quem tenuit et tenet sancta mater ecclesia, cujus est judicare de vero sensu, et interpretatione scripturarum sanctarum, aut etiam contra unanimem consensum patrum ipsam scripturam sacram interpretari audeat, etiamsi hujusmodi interpretationes nullo unquam tempore in lucem...
Page 76 - It is most true 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 ever will be.
Page 35 - Deo adiuvante retinere et confiteri atque a meis subditis vel illis, quorum cura ad me in munere meo spectabit, teneri, doceri et praedicari, quantum in me erit, curaturum, ego idem N.