 The Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping, and Adoration, as well of Images as of Reliques, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word...  The Monthly magazine - Page 63by Monthly literary register - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Grace Tiffany - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 217 pages
...saints "stupidity."*7 The Thirty-Nine Articles of the English Church declared "Invocations of Saints" a "fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon...Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God" (Article 22). The early-sixteenth-century Bible translator Miles Coverdale warned of the fruitlessness... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - Religion - 2006 - 274 pages
...saints were (in the Elizabethan English of an Anglican confession of faith) "a fond [foolish] thing, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the word of God." This was because the traditional "warranty of Scripture" for them had come not from the Hebrew of the... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 880 pages
...Worshipping and Adoration, as well of linages as of 'Reliques, and also Invocation ol Saints, isa tond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Weird of Clod.' 1 was certainly surprised at my sermon being sent for on such a charge; but must say,... | |
 | Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission - Religion - 2006 - 258 pages
...and powers alongside Christ's, they rejected the "Romish doctrine of... the Invocation of Saints" as "grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God" (Article XXII). The Council of Trent affirmed that seeking the saints' assistance to obtain favours... | |
 | Edoardo Crisafulli - Great Britain - 2003 - 348 pages
...Pardons, Worshipping and Adoration, as well of Images as of Reliques, and also invocation of Saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no...Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God." (ibid) These two articles complement each other: for Roman Catholics Purgatory is a state where souls... | |
 | Joćo Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman - Social Science - 2007 - 464 pages
...Pardons, Worshipping, and Adoration, as well of Images as of Reliques, and also invocation of Saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no...Scripture, but rather repugnant to the word of God." 27 Thus, at least an implicit censorship is built into the theatrical representation of the afterlife.... | |
 | Jeffrey Gros, Thomas F. Best, Lorelei F Fuchs, SA - Religion - 2008 - 615 pages
...powers alongside Christ's, they rejected the "Romish doctrine of. . . the invocation of saints" as "grounded upon no warranty of scripture, but rather repugnant to the word of God" (art. XXII). The council of Trent affirmed that seeking the saints' assistance to obtain favours from... | |
 | William McLoughlin, Jill Pinnock - Religion - 2007 - 366 pages
...statues and the invocation of saints (including Mary) 'is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded on no warranty of scripture, but rather repugnant to the word of God'. Here the reaction against exaggerated Marian devotion is seen in the context of a wider reaction against... | |
 | George Herbert, Helen Wilcox - Literary Collections - 2007 - 740 pages
...Combat (1589), cited by Martz 97); (2.) 'The Romish Doctrine concerning . . . invocation of saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture' (Article xxii of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, 1562). Modern criticism. Most critical... | |
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