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50601 Facts of Faith
… by spiritual censures, to discharge every one of their functions: and that, as they desire to be reckoned and held faithful, so, for the defence of the faith, let …
50602 Facts of Faith, p. 104.5 (Christian Edwardson)
“The church ... can convert heathen appointments into spiritual rites and usages.... Hence there has been from the first much variety and change, in the Sacramental acts and instruments which she has used.” — Id., p. 879.
50603 Facts of Faith, p. 116.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… of spiritual insight and sound judgment of such bishops when they met at their councils to formulate the creed of Christendom? They decreed in favor of image …
50604 Facts of Faith, p. 134.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… the spiritual need of these poor heathen, and after ten years he returned to Ireland as a missionary of the Celtic church. “He had now reached his thirtieth …
50605 Facts of Faith, p. 145.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… this spiritual fiery law will burn all those thorns which men set up before it. For was there ever any ceremonial law given us? But this law was given from the …
50606 Facts of Faith, p. 151.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… of spiritual tyranny and every species of religious persecution. For, you doubtless remember, I have often expressed in sentiments that any man, conducting …
50607 Facts of Faith
… his spiritual charge.” — “An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy,” pp. 567, 568.
50608 Facts of Faith, p. 163 (Christian Edwardson)
The Pope’s Spiritual Bank
50609 Facts of Faith, p. 163.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… a Spiritual Bank from which the pope can draw for the benefit of those who lack, as the following quotations show. Dr. M. J. Scott says:
50610 Facts of Faith, p. 163.5 (Christian Edwardson)
… a spiritual treasure-house, a ‘bank’ we have called it, upon which the Church can draw for the benefit of her needy children.” — “Indulgences” (Roman Catholic), p. 9. London …
50611 Facts of Faith, p. 164.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… entire spiritual treasury of the Church, wherefore only the Pope and those to whom he has given participation in the power by law, have the ordinary power …
50612 Facts of Faith, p. 168.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… . See “Spiritual Venality of Rome”, Rev. Joseph Mendham, M.A., “Traffic in Pardons,” George Hodson, and “Philosophical Dictionary”, Voltaire, Vol. II. pp. 474-478. See also …
50613 Facts of Faith, p. 172.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… his spiritual children in purgatory, than about the building of a magnificent church at Rome? Should not the shepherd be more concerned about his sheep than …
50614 Facts of Faith, p. 173.3 (Christian Edwardson)
… , their spiritual life stifled. Instead of progressing along the line of reform, they retrograded and gave up several of the points of truth held by the Reformers …
50615 Facts of Faith, p. 181.6 (Christian Edwardson)
… of spiritual declension was seen, as formerly in the apostolic church. Whenever the warning voices are hushed up, spiritual darkness sets in. Dr. Scharling …
50616 Facts of Faith, p. 182.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… with spiritual reforms. But in the early part of the nineteenth century, when the great spiritual revival passed over almost every country, and affected …
50617 Facts of Faith, p. 195.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… been spiritually awake. Every well-read person knows that the early Christian church fell away from its apostolic purity and corrupted its doctrines by …
50618 Facts of Faith, p. 200.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… new spiritual temple, which he says we are.
50619 Facts of Faith, p. 214.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… of spiritual darkness, and crime is at its high tide. Thinking people are everywhere scanning the horizon to detect some prophetic message from heaven that …
50620 Facts of Faith, p. 215.3 (Christian Edwardson)
… strange spiritual stirrings of the race today. Many clergymen seem scarcely aware of what is going forward beneath the surface of life. Many experts upon …