The Church of England and Other Religious Communions: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Parish Church of Clapham

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Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 272 Seiten
 

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Seite 197 - For there was no new faith propagated in England ; no religion set up but that which was commanded by Our Saviour, practised by the primitive Church, and unanimously approved by the fathers of the best antiquity.
Seite 237 - ... to devise the best mode of providing for the cure of souls, with special reference to the residence of the clergy on their respective benefices...
Seite 203 - Church, which always hath been reputed and also found of that sort that both for knowledge, integrity, and sufficiency of number, it hath been always thought and is also at this hour sufficient and meet of itself, without the intermeddling of any exterior person or persons, to declare and determine all such doubts and to administer all such offices and duties as to their rooms spiritual doth appertain.
Seite 94 - So easily are Bishops made, By man's or woman's whim ; Wesley his hands on Coke hath laid, But who laid hands on him ?
Seite 144 - From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities, good Lord, deliver us.
Seite 121 - That now is the time of the Second Advent of the Lord, which is a coming, not in Person, but in the power and glory of his Holy Word...
Seite 253 - When the English Church is disestablished there may be no considerable surplus available for years to come. When that surplus becomes a reality, instead of existing in imagination only, the nation will decide on its appropriation with reference to the wants and feelings of the period, and is not likely to be bound by proposals made years before.
Seite 136 - In every week of the year some new aspect of Order or of Progress will be held up to public veneration : and in each the link connecting public and private worship will be found in the adoration of Woman. In this esthetic side of Positive religion everything tends to strengthen its fundamental principle of Love. All the resources of Poetry, and of the special arts of sound and form, will be invoked to give full and regular expression to it.
Seite 29 - Jerusalem, the fK/cXjja/a, met together habitually under the government and instruction of various elders, but are wrong in splitting up what ought to be one church, the company of believers in modern towns, into several churches each with its own pastor, which in their independent individuality are patches and shreds, often incapable of a right self-government, because they have lost sight of the unity and kind of government existing in the earliest churches.
Seite 136 - ... Progress. It will be their object to represent the statical relations by which the great Organism preserves its unity, and the various aspects of its animating principle, Love. The most universal and the most solemn of these festivals will be the feast of Humanity, which will be held throughout the West at the beginning of the new year, thus consecrating the only custom which still remains in general use to relieve the prosaic dulness of modern life. In this feast, which celebrates the most comprehensive...

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