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Primitive Christian Worship Or The Evidence Of Holy Scripture A

§ 1. Evidence of Justin Martyr See also Appendix 2. Evidence of Irenæus 3. ------ Clement of Alexandria 4. ------ Tertullian ------ Methodius 5. ------ Origen See also Appendix 6. Supplementary Section on Origen See also Appendix 7. Evidence of St. Cyprian See also Appendix 8....

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

2. Chapter 2

3. Chapter 3

§ 1. Evidence of Justin Martyr See also Appendix 2. Evidence of Irenæus 3. ------ Clement of Alexandria 4. ------ Tertullian ------ Methodius 5. ------ Origen See also Appendix...

4. Chapter 4

5. Chapter 5

§ 1. Present authorized Worship of the Virgin 2. Worship of the Virgin, continued 3. Bonaventura 4. Biel, Damianus, Bernardinus de Bustis, Bernardinus Senensis,&c. See also Appe...

6. Chapter 6

Whilst I invite you to accompany me in a free and full investigation of one of those tenets and practices which keep asunder the Roman and the Anglican Church, I am conscious in...

7. Chapter 7

Here, Christian Brethren, bear with me if I briefly, but freely, recall to our thoughts on this first entrance upon a review of the inspired volume, the principles, and tone of...

8. Chapter 8

Before we enter upon the next branch of our proposed inquiry, allow me to premise that I am induced to examine into the evidence of Christian antiquity not by any misgiving, les...

9. Chapter 9

Justin, who flourished about the year 150, was trained from his early youth in all the learning of Greece and of Egypt. He was born in Palestine, of heathen parents; and after a...

10. Chapter 10

the just and righteous, and to those who keep his commandments, and persevere in his love, some indeed from the beginning but some from repentance, he giving life CONFERS by way...

11. Chapter 11

One of the points proposed for our inquiry was the state of religious worship, with reference to the invocation of saints, at the time immediately preceding the reformation. Ver...

12. Chapter 12

In the process of ascertaining the real state of doctrine and practice in the worship of the Church of Rome at the present day, we must first gain as clear and accurate a knowle...

13. Chapter 13

In submitting to the reader's consideration the actual state of Roman Catholic worship at the present hour, I disclaim all desire to fasten upon the Church of Rome any of the fo...

14. Chapter 14

The worship of the blessed Virgin Mary is so highly exalted in the Church of Rome, as to require the formation of a new name to express its high character. Neither could the Lat...

15. Chapter 15

Closing the inspired volume, and seeking at the fountain-head for the evidence of Christian antiquity, what do we find? For upwards of three centuries and a half (the limit put...

16. Chapter 16

By the Church of England, two festivals are observed in grateful commemoration of two events relating to Mary as the mother of our Lord:--the announcement of the Saviour's birth...

17. Chapter 17

The legend on which the doctrine of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is founded professes to trace the tradition to Juvenal, Archbishop of Jerusalem, when he was sojourning in...

18. Chapter 18

When from examining the evidence of antiquity we turn to the present enjoined services of the Church of Rome, it is impossible not to be struck by the fact repeatedly forced upo...