Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished MysteryRussell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
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Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jehovah's witnesses -- Controversial literature
“I profess, also, that there are truly and properly seven
sacraments of the new law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord,
and for the salvation of mankind, though all are not necessary for
every one—namely, baptism, confirmation, eucharist, penance,
extreme unction, orders, and matrimony, and that they confer
grace; and of these, baptism, confirmation, and order cannot be
reiterated without sacrilege. I do also receive and admit the
ceremonies of the Catholic Church, received and approved in the
solemn administration of all the above‐said sacraments. I receive
and embrace all and every one of the things which have been
defined and declared in the holy Council of Trent concerning sin
and justification. I profess likewise that in the mass is offered
to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living
and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrament of the eucharist
there is truly, really and substantially the body and blood,
together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ; and
that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the
bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into
the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls
Transubstantiation. I confess, also, that under either kind alone,
whole and entire, Christ and a true sacrament is received. I
constantly hold that there is a purgatory, and that the souls
detained therein are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.
Likewise that the saints reigning together with Christ are to be
honored and invocated, that they offer prayers to God for us, and
that their relics are to be venerated.
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