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Page 9 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 68 - Gracious Father, I humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church ; fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purge it ; where it is in error, direct it ; where it is superstitious, rectify it ; where anything is amiss, reform it .; where it is right, strengthen and confirm it ; where it is in want, furnish it ; where it is divided and rent asunder, make up...
Page 67 - Society nre :— 1. The publication, in different languages, of books and tracts, illustrative of the doctrine, discipline, status, and religious spirit of the English Church, and of the character of her Reformation.
Page 67 - Church known iu the different countries of Europe and throughout the world. 2. To help forward the internal reformation of National Churches and other religious communities, by spreading information within them, rather than by proselytizing from them. 3. To save men, whose religious convictions are already unsettled, from drifting into infidelity, by exhibiting to them a purified Christianity which they may be able to embrace.
Page 69 - ... excellent way. At the same time it wishes it to be understood that its object is not to proselytise individuals, but to help towards the reformation and revivification of Churches and communities. "Its primary aim, as has been said, is to procure an intelligent appreciation of the principles of the Church of England by those who are now ignorant of them. Such an appreciation can be fraught with no evil result to the English Church ; it may have considerable effect for good on other National Churches...
Page 11 - 3. By enforcing on excited minds the necessity of ecclesiastical order. " 4. By convincing them, both by argument and by the example of the English Church, of the possibility of a National Church reforming itself, and being at once Catholic and Protestant — Catholic, as maintaining the faith and discipline of the Holy Catholic Church ; Protestant, in rejecting Papal usurpation and dogma."— Nov.
Page 4 - For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater. "So shall my word be that goeth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 26 - His revealing power.4 (5) The Holy Ghost is the personal Production out of the Father, belonging to the Son, but not out of the Son because He is the Spirit of the Mouth of the Godhead, which speaks forth the Word.' (6) The Holy Ghost forms the mediation between the Father and the Son, and is bound together to the Father through the Son...
Page 10 - If that be so, then I certainly do consider that the object of this Society is one based upon the highest principles, and is consistent with the highest conception of our duty to the Great Head of our Church, namely, to make known throughout the world what is the real character of the Church of England, and what are her true principles and mode of action. Therefore I think this Society has adopted a very just and proper course, when it enumerates, as one of the means it uses, ' The publication, in...
Page 9 - ... it ; where it is superstitious, rectify it ; where anything is amiss, reform it; where it is right, strengthen and confirm it; where it is in want, furnish it ; where it is divided and rent asunder, heal the breaches thereof, O Thou Holy One of Israel, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.