Russia and Reunion: A Translation of Wilbois' "L'avenir de L'eglise Russe," by the Rev. C. R. Davey Biggs Together with Translations of Russian Official Documents on Reunion and English Orders |
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Page 237 - WILLIAM, by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, most earnestly commend to your brotherly love the Right Rev.
Page 242 - For the peace of the whole world, for the welfare of the holy churches of God, and for the union of all, let us pray to the Lord.
Page 239 - Papal aggressiveness which claims to subordinate all the Churches of Christ to the See of Rome. Alike we have to protect our flocks from teachers of new and strange doctrines adverse to that Holy Faith which was handed down to us by the Holy Apostles and Ancient Fathers of the Catholic Church. But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, and by mutual sympathy and prayer that we may be one ev TOIS SW/tois TOV EuayyeXi'ov ' we shall encourage each other, and promote the salvation of all men.
Page 121 - Drink ye all of it : this is my blood, the blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you, and for many, for the remission of sins. This do ye, as oft as ye drink; it, in remembrance of me.
Page 218 - God thinks of her in eternity.” He demonstrated the law of moral and intellectual harmony which should bind one nation to another. “In accepting the essential unity of the human race, we must regard humanity in entirety, as a great collective being, a social organism of which the dIfferent nations represent the living members. It is evident, from this point of view, that no people can live in itself, by itself, or for itself, but that the life of each one is merely an individual share in the...
Page 239 - we shall encourage each other, and promote the salvation of all men. Praying therefore earnestly in the Spirit for the Unity of all men in the Faith of the Gospel laid down and expounded by the Oecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church of Christ, and in the living knowledge of the Son of God, We ever remain, Your Grace's most faithful and devoted Servant and Brother in the Lord, (signed) EDW.
Page 223 - Neither pray I for these alone ; but for them also which shall believe on me through their word : that they may all be one ; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Page 239 - The Russian and the Anglican Church have common foes. Alike we have to guard our independence against the Papal aggressiveness which claims to subordinate all the Churches of Christ to the See of Rome.