Letters to a Seceder from the Church of England to the Communion of Rome

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F. & J. Rivington, 1851 - Church of England - 326 pages
 

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Page 236 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Page 97 - Gorham appears to us to be this that Baptism is a Sacrament generally necessary to salvation, but that the grace of regeneration does not so necessarily accompany the act of Baptism that regeneration invariably takes place in Baptism; that the grace may be granted before, in, or after Baptism; that Baptism is an effectual sign of grace, by which God works invisibly in us, but only in such as worthily receive it, - in them alone it has a wholesome effect; and that without reference to the qualification...
Page 66 - So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do.
Page 310 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that, is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship...
Page 79 - Mother of fair love, and fear, and holy hope," " exalted like a palm-tree in Engaddi, and a rose-plant in Jericho," "created from the beginning before the world " in God's counsels, and " in Jerusalem was her power" ? The vision is found in the Apocalypse, a Woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
Page 73 - We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God. Despise not our petitions in our necessities: but deliver us from all dangers, O ever glorious and blessed Virgin.
Page 70 - Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus, exsules, filii Hevae. Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes In hac lacrimarum valle. Eia ergo, Advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes Oculos ad nos converte. Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, Nobis post hoc exilium ostende. O Clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.
Page 316 - Certainly the Catholic Church, from east to west, from north to south, is, according to our conceptions, hung with miracles. The store of relics is inexhaustible; they are multiplied through all lands, and each particle of each has in it at least a dormant, perhaps an energetic virtue of supernatural operation.
Page 298 - In making these particulars known to the general superior of the congregation of the mission and of the sisters of charity...
Page 18 - though spoken of in prophecy as a kingdom, came into the world as an idea rather than an institution, and has had to wrap itself in clothing, and fit itself with armor of its own providing, and form the instruments and methods of its own prosperity and warfare.

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