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An Attempt to Illustrate Those Articles of the Church of England, Which the Calvinists Improperly Consider as Calvinistical, in 8 Sermons
An Attempt to Illustrate Those Articles of the Church of England Which the Calvinists Improperly Consider as Calvinistical in 8 Sermons Author:Richard Laurence Title: An Attempt to Illustrate Those Articles of the Church of England, Which the Calvinists Improperly Consider as Calvinistical, in 8 Sermons Preached in 1804, at the Lecture Founded by J. Bampton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: Parker Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of... more » the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SERMON III. Page 53, note (1). " Ipsi audivimus excellentes theologos desiderare modum '' in Scholastica doctrina, quae multo plus habet rixarum " philosophicarum, quani pietatis. Et tamen in his " veteres fere propriores sunt Scripturae, quarn recentiores. " Ita magis magisque degeneravit istorum theologia. Nee " alia causa fuit multis bonis viris, qui initio amare " Lutherum coeperunt, quarn quod videbant eum ex- " plicare animos hominum ex illis labyrinthis confusissi- " marum et infinitarum disputationum, quae sunt apud " Scholasticos theologos, et canonistas, et res utiles ad " pietatem docere." Apologia Confessionis, p. 63. apud Ccelestinum. The Apology or Defence of the Augsburg Confession was composed by the same author as the Confession itself, and at the same period; and has always obtained an equal authority, being enumerated with it among the symbolical productions of the Lutherans. Page 57, note (). Original sin, upon this system, was held to be nothing more than such a participation in the guilt of Adam, as to bereave us, not of the natural gifts of the first creation, but only of its. superadded graces; as to incapacitate us from acquiring everlasting happiness, yet not expose us to everlasting misery. But the peculiarity of the doctrine cannot be better explained than in the words of Luther: " Dissentiunt tamen a Pelagianis, quod sine Christo non "posse bene viv...« less