A brief view of ecclesiastical history, by a clergyman [H. Newman]. By a dignitary of the established church [H. Newman].

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Page 10 - Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church.
Page 63 - May our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon thee, and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy passion. And I, by his authority, that of his blessed apostles, Peter and Paul, and of the most holy pope, granted and committed to me in these parts, do absolve thee, first from all ecclesiastical censures, in whatever manner they have been incurred ; then from all thy sins, transgressions, and...
Page 106 - I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead : and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 106 - 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 107 - This true Catholic faith, out of which none can be saved, which I now freely profess, and truly hold, I, N., promise, vow, and swear most constantly to hold and profess the same whole and entire, with God's assistance, to the end of my life...
Page 106 - Orders, may not he repeated without sacrilege. I do also receive and admit the received and approved rites of the Catholic church in her solemn administration of the aforesaid sacraments.
Page 106 - I also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the Church, and that...
Page 107 - ... profess, and truly hold, I, N. promise, vow and swear most constantly to hold and profess the same whole and entire, with God's assistance, to the end of my life ; and to procure, as far as lies in my power, that the same shall be held, taught, and preached by all who are under me, or are entrusted to my care, by virtue of my office. So help me God, and these holy gospels of God.
Page 105 - I do profess and believe that there are seven sacraments of the new law, truly and properly so called, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary...
Page 46 - Lord hath set me o'er the kings of earth, •*• To fasten and uproot, to build and mar; Not by mine own fond will: else never war Had...

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