The Judgment of the Anglican Church (Posterior to the Reformation)

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The Judgment of the Anglican Church (Posterior to the Reformation)

The Judgment of the Anglican Church (Posterior to the Reformation)

The Judgment of the Anglican Church (Posterior to the Reformation) by John F Russell

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Author: John F Russell
Number of Pages: 118 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781232206392
File size: 28 Mb
File Name: The.Judgment.of.the.Anglican.Church.(Posterior.to.the.Reformation).pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...received none but St. Matthew's, some rejected all St. Paul's Epistles; and it was a long time before the whole Canon was consigned by universal testimony; some Churches having one part, some another: Rome herself had not all; so that, in this case, the argument from Tradition was the most famous, the most certain, and the most prudent. And now, according to this rule, they had more traditions than we have; and traditions did by degrees lessen as they came to be written, and their necessity was less as the knowledge of them was ascertained to us by a better keeper of divine truth. All that great mysteriousness of CHRIST's priesthood, the unity of His sacrifice, CHRIST's advocacy and intercession for us in heaven, and many other excellent doctrines, might very well be accounted traditions, before St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews was published to all the world, but now they are written truths; and if they had not, possibly we might either have lost them quite, or doubted of them, as we do of many other traditions, by reason of the insufficiency of the propounder. And therefore it was that St. Peter (2 Pet. i. 13) took order that the Gospel should be writ; for he had promised that he would do something which, after his decease, should have these things in remembrance. He knew it was not safe trusting the report of men, where the fountain might quickly run dry, or be corrupted so insensibly, that no cure could be found for it, nor any just notice taken of it till it were incurable. And indeed, there is scarce any thing but what is written in Scripture, that can, with any confidence of argument, pretend to derive from the Apostles, except rituals and manners of ministration; but no doctrine or speculative mysteries are so transmitted to ...

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