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A Letter to Richard, Lord Bishop of Oxford; On the Tendency to Romanism Imputed to Doctrines Held of Old, as Now, in the English Church
A Letter to Richard Lord Bishop of Oxford On the Tendency to Romanism Imputed to Doctrines Held of Old as Now in the English Church Author:Edward Bouverie Pusey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: J.H. Parker Subjects: Oxford movement Tracts for the times Religion / Christianity / Anglican 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... more » 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: " the Sacraments, and of other my doctrine, whatsoever " it be, not only I mean and judge, as the Catholic " Church and the most holy Fathers of old meant and " judged, but also, I would gladly use the same words " that they used, and not use any other words ; but '' to set my hand to all and singular their speeches, " phrases, ways and forms of speech, which they do " use in their treatises upon the Sacraments, and to " keep still their interpretation." And hence our Divines fearlessly appeal to the whole period when the Church was one, and spake one language, and could speak as one; as Bishop Jewell in his celebrated challenge': " I said, perhaps " boldly, as it might then seem to some men, but as " I myself and the learned of our adversaries them- " selves do well know, sincerely and truly, that none " of them all, that this day stand against us, are able "or shall ever be able to prove against us any one of " all those points, either by the Scriptures, or by " example of the primitive Church, or by the old " Doctors, or by the ancient general Councils. -- " The words that I then spake, as near as I can " call them to mind, were these: If any learned man " of all our adversaries, or if all the learned men " that be alive, be able to bring any one sufficient " sentence out of any old Catholic Doctor, or Father, 1 Sermon preached at Paul's Cross, (Works, pp. 57, 58.) extracted more at length in Tracts for the Times, No. 78. " Testimony of writ...« less