A Letter of Friendly Remonstrance to the Rev. F. Oakeley ...

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T. Richardson and Son, 1845 - 35 pages

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Page 11 - I profess, likewise, that in the mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead...
Page 11 - I also profess, that there are truly and properly seven sacraments, of the new law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salvation of mankind, though not all for every one: to wit, baptism, confirmation, eucharist, penance, extreme unction, orders, and matrimony; and that they confer grace : and that of these, baptism, confirmation, and orders, cannot be reiterated without sacrilege.
Page 12 - Christ : and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood ; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
Page 12 - I also affirm that the power of Indulgences was left by Christ in the Church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people.
Page 9 - I also admit the holy Scriptures, according to that sense which our holy Mother, the Church, has held, and does hold, to which it belongs to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the Scriptures: Neither will I ever take and interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of...
Page 12 - I acknowledge the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church for the mother and mistress of all Churches ; and I promise true obedience to the Bishop of Rome, successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ.
Page 11 - I embrace and receive all and every one of the things which have been defined and declared in the holy council of Trent, concerning original sin and justification.
Page 8 - But with your Lordship, I contend, this distinction ought to, and will, receive consideration. Were I to be found teaching Roman doctrine in my public ministrations in your Lordship's diocese, I should, as I feel, most deservedly expose myself to your Lordship's censure. It is plain that your Lordship, as a Bishop of our Church, could not, and would not, suffer it.
Page 13 - Church, to be purchased and be~ stowed at pleasure, a practice too gross to need a comment. The best comment was the Reformation, which Was particularly stimulated and promoted by this mercenary traffic. 10. They hold that the Roman Church is the mother and mistress of all others : although the Churches of Antioch and Jerusalem took place of her, beyond all question, both in order and precedence ; and although the Eastern Church was raised to equal honours by acts of council, when the empire was...

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