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An Attempt to Illustrate Those Articles of the Church of England, Which the Calvinists Improperly Consider as Calvinistical
An Attempt to Illustrate Those Articles of the Church of England Which the Calvinists Improperly Consider as Calvinistical Author:Richard Laurence Subtitle: In Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford, in the Year Mdccciv, at the Lecture Founded by J. Bampton ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Original Publisher: Printed by W. Baxter, for J. Parker Subjects: Calvinism Sermons, English Philosophy / Religious Religion / Christi... more »anity / Anglican Religion / Philosophy Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / Calvinist Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of 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. Rom. v. 19. By one man's disobedience many were made sinners. IN the preceding Lectures I have endeavoured to point out the source, from which our Articles were derived, and to prove, that no alterations, however trivial, (at least none which relate to the subject before me,) were admitted after their original publication, unless such, as were borrowed from a similar source, and a composition coaeval with them; circumstances, which necessarily limit my proposed enquiry, the former confining it generally to a single object, the latter always to a single period. Instead therefore of attempting to illustrate them by the predominant opinions either of Elizabeth's or any succeeding reign, it seems more correct to compare them with those which prevailed when they were first promulgated. Avoiding therefore every question not at the time agitated, I shall attend only to the peculiar controversies of the day; to controversies, which were carried on by the Lutherans against the Papists, and which our own Reformers appear to have had in view, when, separating from the Church of Rome, they established a new Creed, not in order to erect a barrier between Protestant and Protestant, but p...« less