The Criterion: A Means of Distinguishing Truth from Error, in Questions of the Times. With Four Letters on the Eirenicon of Dr. Pusey

Arthur Cleveland Coxe

H. B. Durand, 1866 - Apologetics - 129 pages

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 2
• Section 3: 3
• Section 4: 5
• Section 5: 61
• Section 6: 65
• Section 7: 70
• Section 8: 82
• Section 9: 98
• Section 10: 110
• Section 11: 111
• Section 12: 117
• Section 13: 121

Popular passages

Page 27 - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.‎

Page 51 - Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. When height of malice, and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcrafts, and distrusts, (The marks of future bane,) shall fill our cup Unto the brim, and make our measure up; When...‎

Page 1 - One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.‎

Page 127 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.‎

Page 39 - I protest that it was never my mind to write, speak, or understand any thing contrary to the most Holy Word of God, or else against The Holy Catholic Church of Christ...‎

Page 39 - I do profess, with holy asseveration and from my very heart, that I am now, and have ever been from my youth, altogether free and averse from the corruptions and impertinent new-fangled or papistical (so commonly called) superstitions and doctrines, and new superadditions to the ancient and primitive religion and Faith of the most commended, so orthodox, and Catholic Church, long since introduced, contrary to the Holy Scripture and the rules and customs of the ancient Fathers.‎

Page 28 - Bp. Bull's theology was the only theology on which the English Church could stand. I have felt, that opposition to the Church of Rome was part of that theology ; and that he who could not protest against the Church of Rome was no true divine in the English Church. I have never said, nor attempted to say, that any one in office in the English Church, whether Bishop or incumbent, could be otherwise than in hostility to the Church of Rome.‎

Page 39 - Church, and if any thing hath peradventure chanced otherwise than I thought, I may err, but heretic I cannot be, forasmuch as I am ready in all things to follow the judgment of the most sacred Word of God, and of the Holy Catholic Church...‎

Page 45 - Since the days of Gregory I. to our time sat no high-priest on the throne of St. Peter to be compared to Nicolas. He tamed kings and tyrants, and ruled the world like a sovereign...‎

Page 81 - According to this rule, the Church of England will be found the best and purest Church at this day in the Christian world. Upon which account I bless God that I was born, baptized, and bred up in her communion; wherein I firmly reresolve by His grace to persist usque ad extremum mtce spiritum [unto my life's end].‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Criterion: A Means of Distinguishing Truth from Error, in Questions of the Times. With Four Letters on the Eirenicon of Dr. Pusey
• Author: Arthur Cleveland Coxe
• Publisher: H. B. Durand, 1866
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Sep 26, 2007
• Length: 129 pages