The Story of Ireland and Her Church: From the Earliest Times to the Present DayAssociation for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1899 - 326 pages |
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Page 303 - None can enter into the kingdom of God, except he be regenerate and born anew of Water and of the Holy Ghost...
Page 305 - It is expedient that every Person, thus baptized, should be confirmed by the Bishop, so soon after his Baptism as conveniently may be ; that so he may be admitted to the Holy Communion.
Page 172 - Surely there was never people that lived in more misery than they do, nor, as it should seem, of worse minds, for matrimony among them is no more regarded, in effect, than conjunction between unreasonable beasts. Perjury, robbery, and murder, counted allowable. Finally, I cannot find that they make any conscience of sin, and...
Page 222 - ... people. It is in these terms : " 'Whereas it is ordained in the book of prayers, that the communicants should receive the holy communion kneeling ; yet we declare, that this ought not so to be understood, as if any adoration is or ought to be done, either unto the sacramental bread and wine, or to- any real' and essential presence of Christ's natural flesh and blood there existing.
Page 167 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within...
Page 302 - God's wrath against us; we provoke him to plague us with divers diseases, and sundry kinds of death.
Page 88 - We are gathered here today to take part in an event which marks one of the most important epochs in the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad. With the unveiling of the statue before which we stand, it is proposed, sir, that you should officially declare the station open for the purposes for which it was built.
Page 307 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our sister out of the miseries of this sinful world...
Page 15 - I bind upon myself to-day The virtues of the starlit heaven, The glorious sun's life-giving ray, The whiteness of the moon at even ', etc.
Page 137 - God only; and also that ye fear not his great thunder claps of excommunication or interdiction, for they cannot hurt you ; but let us put all our confidence and trust in our Saviour Jesus Christ, which is gentle and loving, and requireth nothing of us when we have offended him, but that we should repent and forsake our sins, and believe steadfastly that he is Christ, the Son of the living God, and that he died for our sins, and so forth, as it is contained in the Credo; and that through him, and...