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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 10 How the Church is a bulwark against unbelief. which our lives arc consecrated, the maintenance of God's truth, as far as in man lies, and the teaching it to the salvation of souls for whom Christ died. But the teaching of the Clergy is only a small portion of the efficacy of the Church in repelling unbelief. They act but as individuals, subordinate to the Church in which they are God's ministers; the Church is a whole. And since we are more acted upon by what we do, than by what we hear, the Church, by putting into the mouths of all her members the ancient Creeds and Prayers which embody the faith, is, yet more, a continual unchanging teacher of the truth which Christ revealed and delivered to her at the first. She, through our mothers whom God had taught by her, taught us our faith at our mother's knee; she, through her Prayers and Creeds, has taught us all our life long; and our faith which we professed and uttered became, by God's gift of faith, part of ourselves. Our bodies could be severed from our souls, but our faith could not, without our will, be severed from our hearts. We, of course, believe, that God the Holy Ghost, the One Spirit who animates and informs the One Body of Christ, teaches truth in her in a way different from that in which He, the Author of all Faith and Grace, is present with all Truth, wherever it is taught, and accompanies it by His Grace. As individuals, we, too, thankfully acknowledge that whoever teaches any true faith in Jesus is, soDissenters probably owe much to the Church. 11 far, one of God's instruments against unbelief. Nay, such is the power of Divine faith, that every child, who has it, is such. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise. When our Lord came in His great humility, the faith o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217165877 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217165877 |
| Weight | 0.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $20.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 254 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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