The Spiritual Improvement of the Census: A Sermon, Preached in the Parish Church of All Saints, Fulham, 30th March, 1851Baker, R. G. (Robert George)
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The Spiritual Improvement of the Census: A Sermon, Preached in the Parish Church of All Saints, Fulham, 30th March, 1851
Baker, R. G. (Robert George)
Bible. Samuel, 2nd, XXIV, 10 -- Sermons; Church of England -- Sermons -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Census, 1851
The Romish doctrine concerning It is lawful to represent God and
purgatory, pardons, worshipping, the Holy Trinity by images; and
and adoration, as well of images the images and relics of Christ
as of reliques, and also and the saints are to be duly
invocation of saints, is a fond honoured, venerated, and
thing vainly invented, and worshipped. And in this
grounded upon no warranty of veneration and worship those are
Scripture, but rather repugnant venerated which are represented
to the word of God.—22_d_ by them.—_Decrees of the Council
_Article of Religion_. _Texts of Trent_.
opposed to the doctrine of
purgatory_: Eccl. ix. 5, 6; Isa. I most firmly assert that the
xxxviii. 18; St. Luke xxiii. 43; images of Christ and of the
Heb. ix. 27; Rev. xiv. 13. Mother of God, who was always a
_Texts opposed to the doctrines virgin, are to be had and
of the worship of images and the retained; and that due honour and
invocation of saints_: St. Matt. worship are to be given to
iv. 10; Acts iv. 12; x. 25; 1 them.—_Creed of Pope Pius IV_.
Cor. iii. 11; 1 Tim. ii. 5, 6; 1
John ii. 1, 2. I constantly hold that there is a
purgatory; and that the souls
detained there are assisted by
the prayers of the
faithful.—_Creed of Pope Pius
IV_.
V. V.
There are two Sacraments ordained Whosoever shall affirm that the
of Christ our Lord in the Gospel; Sacraments of the New Law were
that is to say, Baptism, and the not all instituted by Jesus
Supper of the Lord. Those five Christ our Lord; or that they are
commonly called Sacraments, that more or fewer than seven; or that
is to say, Confirmation, Penance, any of them is not truly and
Orders, Matrimony, and Extreme properly a sacrament, let him be
Unction, are not to be counted accursed.—_Decrees of the Council
for Sacraments of the Gospel, of Trent_.
being such as have grown partly
of the corrupt following of the I profess also that there are
apostles, partly are states of truly and properly seven
life allowed in the Scriptures; Sacraments of the New Law
but yet have not like nature of instituted by our Lord Jesus
Sacraments with Baptism and the Christ, and necessary for the
Lord’s Supper, for that they have salvation of all men, (though not
not any visible sign or ceremony all of them to every one,) viz.
ordained of God.—25_th_ _Article Baptism, Confirmation, the Lord’s
of Religion_. St. Matt. xxviii. Supper, Penance, Extreme Unction,
19; xxvi. 26; St. Mark xiv. 22; Orders, and Matrimony.—_Creed of
St. Luke xxii. 19, 20; 1 Cor. xi. Pope Pius IV_.
24.
VI. VI.
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