Certain Difficulties Felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching Considered
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ISBN13: 9781458817051
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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: will, to invalidate the argument on which you so confidently rely. Surely you ought to know the Catholic teaching on the subject of grace, in its bearing on your argument, without my insisting on it: textit{{Spiritus Domini replevit ffi'bem terrarum. Grace is given for the merits of Christ all over the earth; there is no corner, even of Paganism, where it is not present, present iu each heart of man in real sufficiency for his ultimate salvation. Not that the grace presented to each is such as at once to bring him to heaven; but it is sufficient for a beginning. It is sufficient to enable him to plead for other grace; and that second grace is such as to impetrate a third grace; and thus the soul may be led from grace to grace, and from strength to strength, till at length it is, so to say, in very sight of heaven, if the gift of perseverance does but complete the work. Now here observe, it is not certain that a soul which has the first grace will have the second; for the grant of the second at least depends on its use of the first. Again, it may have the first and second, and yet not the third; from the first on to the nineteenth, and not the twentieth. We mount up by steps towards God, and alas it is possible that a soul may be courageous and bear up for nineteen steps, and stop and faint at the twentieth. Nay, further than this, it is possible to conceive a soul going forward till itarrives at the very grace of contrition a contrition so loving, so sin-renouncing, as to bring it at once into a state of reconciliation, and clothe it in the vestment of justice; and yet it may yield to the further trials wltich eset it, arid fall away. Now all this may take place even outside the Church; and consider what at once follows from it. This follows, in the first place, that men the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458817051 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458817059 |
| Weight | 0.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 118 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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