This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...Pope Adrian issued a bull, in which mention is made of the sacrament of Pope St. Gregory, meaning thereby the relics of that saint. Du Cange, who is my authority forthis4 mentions several other instances of the like kind; from which it Would seem, that this loose mode of using the word sacrament, was common in the West ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...Pope Adrian issued a bull, in which mention is made of the sacrament of Pope St. Gregory, meaning thereby the relics of that saint. Du Cange, who is my authority forthis4 mentions several other instances of the like kind; from which it Would seem, that this loose mode of using the word sacrament, was common in the West in the eleventh century. Indeed Cassander asserts that " you will hardly find any one of the writers, before Peter Lom Bing. Antiq. book xii. ch. i. sec. 4. The above is the substance of two Essays written in 1821, and published in the April and May numbers of the Gospel Advocate. The author has seen no reason since then to change, and would now have referred his readers to them if the Gospel Advocate had not followed the fate of all such periodicals, that of utter oblivion. t Cave Hist. Lit. tom. ii. p. 125. t Gloss. tom. vi. p. 33. and the use of leavened or unleavened bread in the Eucharist. The entire silence about the number of the Mysteries or Sacraments, leads us to infer that they had already adopted, what had now become a settled Latin doctrine. In the year 1277, John Beccus, the Patriarch of Constantinople, held a Council for the re-union of the Greeks with the Latins; in the acts of which it is said, that "sincethe holy Apostolic Church of Rome maintains that there are seven Ecclesiastical Sacraments," (which they proceed to enumerate, ) "therefore, we say concerning them as follows, &c." The inference must be that by the Greeks, the number seven had not been maintained till then But this does not settle the date of its adoption; for the very attempt at reunion obliged Beccus to resign his see in 1279; and after the death of the Emperor Michael Palseologus, who, from motives of policy, had favoured the r...
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251p. A dark brown cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges lightly worn. Pen inscription on front pastedown endpaper. Old signature on title page. Light foxing inside. Otherwise clean and tight. END OF RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY was one of the best-known works of the Catholic bishop John Milner. This rare work is an Anglican historiographer's response to it.