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Common terms and phrasesabuses advocates Ancient Christianity ancient Church system Apostles Apostolic succession appears ascetic philosophy assail assertion Athanasius authority bacy British Magazine CALM EXPOSURE Church of England cism colour of theological connexion contrary corrupt Council of Nice Cyprian dangerous guides departure distinctly foreshown divine doctrine of religious ecclesiastical constitution embody a system endeavour entire catena patrum established evils fairly and roundly false principles feeling ground are wishing High Church high Churchmen hold Church principles Holy Scripture illusion independently of Scripture Lord's Supper marriage ment minds natural religion notions and practices obviously so opposed opponents Oxford school Oxford Tract doctrines Oxford Tract enterprize Oxford Tract writers peculiar pernicious person prevailed primitive Church Protestantism prove question re-statement Religious Celi religious celibacy revive Nicene principles sacraments Scripture is distinctly silently spirit supposing system or colour tain scheme Taylor tendency theology thing true truth unfavourable to morals views whole system younger Clergy Popular passagesPage 14 - III. That, as these notions and practices are of immemorial antiquity, so did they affect the Church universal — Eastern, Western, and African: and that thus they came fully within the terms of the rule — quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus. " IV. That these opinions and practices, in their most extreme form, including the wild fanaticism of the Egyptian solitaries, and the celibacy of the clergy, received an ample and explicit sanction from ALL the great writers and doctors of the Church,... Page 15 - That the notions and practices connected with the doctrine of the superlative merit of religious celibacy, were at once the causes and the effects of errors in theology, of perverted moral sentiments, of superstitious usages, of hierarchical usurpations ; and that they furnish us with a criterion for estimating the GENERAL VALUE OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY ; and, in a word, afford reason enough for regarding, if not with jealousy, at least with extreme caution, any attempt to induce the modern church... Page 13 - ... which, suppressing names and incidental allusions, an intelligent reader might easily suppose to have been- taken from those of the twelfth or thirteenth century. What then I am peculiarly desirous to place in a conspicuous position, is, the fact that, instead of a regular and slow development of error, there was a very early expansion of false and pernicious notions, in their mature proportions, and these attended by some of their worst fruits. Page 4 - ... hopes of catholic union ; it has saddened generous hearts ; it has baffled the well- omened endeavours of the wise ; it has given a paean to the atheist ; it has flushed the cheek of decrepit Rome with the hopes of her youth ! — Nine years ? it is these past nine years that have seen the venom of Oxford Tract doctrines insidiously shed into the bosoms of perhaps a majority of the younger clergy of the episcopal church. Page 14 - That the lapse of eight hundred or a thousand years exhibits very little, if any, progression, in the quality, or extravagance of those notions which gave support to the practices of religious celibacy; and that the attendant abuses of this system were nearly, or quite, as flagrant at the earlier, as at the later date. II. That, at the very earliest time when we find these notions and practices to have been generally prevalent, and accredited, they were no novelties; but had come down from a still... Page 13 - Such a subject, recommending itself to our choice, with singular completeness, by its conformity with the above-named conditions, is found in the ancient, and the universal opinion entertained in the christian church, concerning the merits, and the spiritual efficacy of celibacy, and especially of uncontaminated virginity ; taken in connexion with the practices thence immediately resulting, and the sanctioned institutions to which, in an early age, it gave rise. Page 14 - ... of this system were nearly or quite as flagrant at the earlier as at the later date. " II. That at the very earliest time, when we find these notions and practices to have been generally prevalent and accredited, they were no novelties, but had come down from a still earlier era. Page 13 - Our ears have been so much and so long used to the sound (repeated by protestant writers, one after the other, and without any distinct reference to facts, and probably without any direct knowledge of them) of the progressive corruption of christianity, and of the slow and steady advances of superstition and spiritual tyranny, that we are little prepared to admit a contrary statement, better sustained by evidence... Page 28 - ... eastern, western, and african : and that thus they come fully within the terms of the rule — quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus. IV. That these opinions and practices, in their most extreme form, including the wild fanaticism of the Egyptian Solitaries, and the celibacy of the clergy, received an ample and explicit sanction, from ALL the great writers and doctors of the church, during the most prosperous and enlightened age of any, preceding the reformation ; and that, on this head,... Page 44 - The Doctrine of Holy Scripture and of the Primitive Church on the Subject of Religious Celibacy, with a Vindication of the Early Church from the Mistakes of the Author of "Ancient Christianity. Bibliographic information
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