A short sketch of the Tractarian upheaval |
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... writings of the great fathers of the evangelical succession , at the leaders among whom we must briefly glance as the men who had formed the religious tone of the country in the early years of the century , and on whose teachings the ...
... writings of the great fathers of the evangelical succession , at the leaders among whom we must briefly glance as the men who had formed the religious tone of the country in the early years of the century , and on whose teachings the ...
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... writings of imperishable value , and the memory of a life passed in no unsuccessful emulation of those of whom this unhallowed world was the least worthy . " The name of Thomas Scott , the spiritual son of Newton is , it may be , little ...
... writings of imperishable value , and the memory of a life passed in no unsuccessful emulation of those of whom this unhallowed world was the least worthy . " The name of Thomas Scott , the spiritual son of Newton is , it may be , little ...
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... writings such a mass of diversified instruction , such stores of intellectual and spiritual nutriment , such completeness and maturity of divine knowledge , so steady and so pure a light to lighten the dark places of Holy Scripture , so ...
... writings such a mass of diversified instruction , such stores of intellectual and spiritual nutriment , such completeness and maturity of divine knowledge , so steady and so pure a light to lighten the dark places of Holy Scripture , so ...
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... writings , from his friend John Newton , the title of Cardiphonia . " In the early years of the century , however , there were two or three considerable figures in the religious world whose influence was of a personal and social rather ...
... writings , from his friend John Newton , the title of Cardiphonia . " In the early years of the century , however , there were two or three considerable figures in the religious world whose influence was of a personal and social rather ...
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... writing more than twenty years ago of the old Foundation , with which he was so long connected as a Fellow , thus de- scribed the causes which brought about the dawn of Oriel's great day : - " The visitor whose curiosity has been ...
... writing more than twenty years ago of the old Foundation , with which he was so long connected as a Fellow , thus de- scribed the causes which brought about the dawn of Oriel's great day : - " The visitor whose curiosity has been ...
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Page 84 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music - subtle, sweet, mournful?
Page 152 - I saw clearly, that in the history of Arianism, the pure Arians were the Protestants, the semi-Arians were the Anglicans, and that Rome now was what it was then. The truth lay, not with the Via Media, but with what was called "the extreme party.
Page 60 - Froude, — in his intellectual aspect, — as a man of high genius, brimful and overflowing with ideas and views, in him original, which were too many and strong even for his bodily strength, and which crowded and jostled against each other in their effort after distinct shape and expression. And he had an intellect as critical and logical as it was speculative and bold.
Page 72 - I am obliged to mention, though I do it with great reluctance, another deep imagination, which at this time, the autumn of 1816, took possession of me, — there can be no mistake about the fact; viz. that it would be the will of God that I should lead a single life.
Page 138 - Leo; but that the deliberate judgment, in which the whole Church at length rests and acquiesces, is an infallible prescription and a final sentence against such portions of it as protest and secede.
Page 80 - The forehead, the shape of the ears and the nose, were almost the same. The lines of the mouth were very peculiar, and I should say exactly the same.
Page 170 - We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky: The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Page 113 - Secondly, I was confident in the truth of a certain definite religious teaching, based upon this foundation of dogma; viz. that there was a visible Church with sacraments and rites which are the channels of invisible grace, I thought that this was the doctrine of Scripture, of the early Church, and of the Anglican Church.
Page 68 - I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true : my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and all this world a deception, my fellow- angels by a playful device concealing themselves from me, and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world.
Page 137 - My stronghold was Antiquity; now here, in the middle of the fifth century, I found, as it seemed to me, Christendom of the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries reflected. I saw my face in that mirror, and I was a Monophysite.