Correspondence on Church and Religion of William Ewart Gladstone, Том 1

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Сторінка 358 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith.
Сторінка 358 - For the right faith is, that we believe and confess : that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds : and man of the substance of his mother, born in the world. Perfect God, and perfect man : of a reasonable soul, and human flesh subsisting.
Сторінка 310 - In the first place, it is a duty which we owe both to the Catholic Church and to our own, to take our reformed confessions in the most Catholic sense they will admit; we have no duties towards their framers.
Сторінка 91 - Committee who were present are unanimously agreed in opinion that the doctrine held by Mr. Gorham is not contrary or repugnant to the declared doctrine of the Church of England as by law established, and that Mr. Gorham ought not, by reason of the doctrine held by him, to have been refused admission to the vicarage of Brampford Speke.
Сторінка 274 - ... does, he would see it in a moment. (The description of his proceedings in 1841, of his letter to the Bishop of Oxford, of his committing himself again, is, as it stands there, frightful, — forgive me if I say it, — more like the expressions of some Faust gambling for his soul, than the records of the inner life of a great Christian teacher.) Therefore you cannot take this letter as it stands to be his.
Сторінка 188 - Some nursery maids and foreign sailors stared about within the spiked felon's dock which shut off the body of the cathedral, and tried in vain to hear what was going on inside the choir. As a wise author — a Protestant, too — has lately said, "the scanty service rattled in the vast building, like a dried kernel too small for its shell...
Сторінка 435 - The work before us has more than fulfilled our expectations; it is indeed a masterpiece of historical writing, of which the interest is absorbing, the authority indisputable, and the skill consummate." — The Saturday Review, London. " It is a great task greatly achieved, a grand portraiture of a grand subject on a great scale and in a worthy style.
Сторінка 393 - ... and qualities have been and will be described far better by others. Ever since he published his University Sermons in 1843, I have thought him unsafe in philosophy, and no Butlerian though a warm admirer of Butler. No ; it was before 1843, in 1841 when he published Tract XC. The general argument of that tract was unquestionable ; but he put in sophistical matter without the smallest necessity. What I recollect is about General Councils : where in treating the declaration that they may err he...
Сторінка 61 - The purpose of Parliamentary life resolves itself with me simply and wholly into one question — Will it ever afford the means under God of rectifying the relations between the Church and the State, and give me the opportunity of setting forward such a work? There must be either such a readjustment, or a violent crisis. The present state of discipline cannot be borne for very many years ; and here lies the pinch. Towards the settlement of money questions something has been done by the Church Commission...
Сторінка 13 - The work attempted to survey the actual state of the relations between the State and the Church ; to show from history the ground which had been defined for the National Church at the Reformation ; and to inquire and determine whether the existing state of things was worth preserving and defending against encroachment from whatever quarter. This question it decided emphatically in the affirmative.

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