Category: History - Religious
ALTAR CLOTH, p. 3 add-- This is the modern Roman sequence of colours, but there is another more truly belonging to the English Church, viz., the Sarum, in which only _Red_ and _White_ are used.
ALTAR CLOTH, p. 3 add-- This is the modern Roman sequence of colours, but there is another more truly belonging to the English Church, viz., the Sarum, in which only _Red_ and _...
2. Chapter 2Early English, 1189 to 1272. Narrow, pointed windows, lancet-shaped; clustered pillars. Example, the choir, Westminster Abbey, or Salisbury Cathedral. 1272 to 1307 was another _...
3. Chapter 3The Epistles were written by the authors whose names they bear (except perhaps Hebrews). Seven of them are called _Catholic_, which means addressed to the Church _generally_, or...
4. Chapter 4CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Christianity was introduced into Britain at the end of the first, or beginning of the second, century. Three British Bishops were present at a Council held at...
5. Chapter 5(1) _History_. The two Sacraments--Holy Communion, and Holy Baptism--differ from all other Christian observances in that they are the only two expressly ordained by our Lord. We...
6. Chapter 6COVENANT. A mutual agreement between two or more parties. In the Bible, God is spoken of as entering into covenant with man, as in Gen. xv.8-18; xxviii.20-22; and elsewhere. In...
7. Chapter 7ESTABLISHMENT and ENDOWMENT. These two terms are constantly linked together in the publications of the Liberation Society, and by other enemies of the Church of England, as thou...
8. Chapter 8KNEELING. The practice of kneeling in confession, in prayer, and in adoration, is of great antiquity. David says, "Let us worship and bow down, let us _kneel_ before the Lord ou...
9. Chapter 9METHODIST ASSOCIATION. In 1834 a controversy arose among the Methodists as to the propriety of establishing a Wesleyan Theological Institution; and a minister who disapproved of...
10. Chapter 10ORDERS, QUALIFICATIONS FOR. Although the preface to the Ordinal and Canon 39 lay down generally what is necessary from Candidates for Holy Orders, yet any one intending to be or...
11. Chapter 11PSALTER. The word _Psalter_ is often used by ancient writers for the book of the Psalms, considered as a separate book of Holy Scripture; but the term is generally used now of t...
12. Chapter 12SCEPTICS. From a Greek word meaning _to look about_, _to deliberate_. Anciently the term was applied to a sect of philosophers founded by Pyrrho. In modern times the word has be...
13. Chapter 13SUPEREROGATION. The 14th Article gives the teaching of the Church of England. Romanists teach that there are certain good deeds which have been performed by saints over and abov...