Description - A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the United Dioceses of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighllin September 1845 by James Thomas O'Brien
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. 1846 Excerpt: ...what ought to be, but what, speaking upon common principles, is likely to be in a very great majority of cases where men are, from any causes, strongly tempted to fall away to Rome. apologies for all her errors, as will be likely to take away all the little importance that they still retain in his mind. Whereas, one who had kept in their proper place the positive truths which his Church teaches, and which the Church of Rome rejects, and, above all, that wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort, to which I have so often referred, would be likely to find in them an effectual safeguard if brought into the like temptations. He would feel that he could not renounce his differences with the Church of Rome, without renouncing what had been affording him spiritual sustenance and spiritual comfort; what had been the spring to him of his highest enjoyments and his brightest hopes; what he loved most and prized most; and he would feel that Rome could bestow nothing on him--nay, could promise nothing to him, which would in any degree compensate for what she required him to give up. And so it might be confidently expected that the latter would be preserved under temptations to which the former would fall an easy prey. It was not without good reason therefore that Mr. Ward not only railed at this great doctrine with unmeasured bitterness himself, but summoned all who shared in his views and feelings, to unite with him in attacking it as the most formidable obstacle to their plans for the renovation of the church. "The very first aggression then of those who labour to revive some degree at least of vital Christianity, (in the room of those grosser corruptions and superstitions, which have in these latter days, among our You will need no help to apply all this to t...
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