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
It is a thing plainly repugnant Although the mass contain great
to the word of God, and the instruction for the faithful
custom of the primitive Church, people; yet it has not appeared
to have public prayer in the expedient to the Fathers, that it
Church, or to minister the should be everywhere celebrated
Sacraments in a tongue not in the vulgar tongue.—_Decrees of
understanded of the the Council of Trent_.
people.—24_th_ _Article of
Religion_. 1 Cor. xiv. 3, 6, 14,
16, 19.
VII. VII.
The cup of the Lord is not to be Whosoever shall affirm that all
denied to the lay people: for and every one of Christ’s
both the parts of the Lord’s faithful are bound by divine
Sacrament, by Christ’s ordinance command to partake the most holy
and commandment, ought to be sacrament of the Eucharist in
ministered to all Christian men both kinds as necessary to
alike.—30_th_ _Article of salvation, let him be
Religion_. St. Matt. xxvi. accursed.—_Decrees of the Council
26–28; 1 Cor. xi. 28. of Trent_.
I confess also, that under one
kind only is received the whole
and entire Christ, and the true
Sacrament.—_Creed of Pope Pius
IV_.
Note C. (P. 17.)
It is confidently believed by those persons who are most familiarly
acquainted with the state of the property adjacent to the new Romish
Church, that within a very few years nearly the whole of it will be
covered with new buildings. And it is so far removed from the churches
and National schools at Fulham and Walham Green, where the population has
also increased of late very considerably, that it is easy to foresee the
necessity which will arise for some new provision for the spiritual
instruction of such a district, growing up nearly in the centre of the
parish of Fulham. In such cases, all experience teaches that it is far
wiser to anticipate the measures that may be required for meeting the
exigency, than to adopt them after it has occurred. And the Vicar,
therefore, deems the present a suitable opportunity for making it known,
that the promise has been secured of a most eligible piece of land, near
the locality here described, and containing rather more than the third of
an acre, which would be well calculated, either now or hereafter, for the
erection of school-rooms, or a church adapted to the wants of this
growing population. The owner of the land, knowing the important object
for which it has been wished to obtain it, has liberally consented to
accept a price considerably below that which its marketable value would
command, and the Bishop of London has kindly given his sanction to the
measure. To those persons whose interest in the spiritual edification of
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