Nuns and Nunneries: Sketches Compiled Entirely from Romish Authorities

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Seeleys, 1852 - 342 Seiten
 

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Seite 106 - ... and that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness : that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Seite 70 - For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy : for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Seite 115 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there: When he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: When he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons...
Seite 297 - ... it in health, she embraced a rule which denied her the comforts of the lowest class of society. A coarse woollen frock fretted her skin : her feet had no covering but that of shoes open at the toes, that they might expose them to the cold of a brick floor : a couch of bare planks was her bed, and an unfurnished cell her dwelling. Disease soon filled her conscience with fears ; and I had often to endure the torture of witnessing her agonies at the confessional. I left her when I quitted Spain,...
Seite 33 - Canonical hours, and read the office in the church. In the name of the Fa + ther and of the + Son, and of the Holy + Ghost. Amen.
Seite 54 - For venial sins, whereby we are not excluded from the grace of God, and into which we fall more frequently, although they be rightly and profitably, and without any presumption declared in confession, as the custom of pious persons demonstrates, yet may they be omitted without guilt, and be expiated by many other remedies. But, whereas all mortal sins, even those of thought, render men children of wrath?
Seite 33 - Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Seite 315 - ... unmarried, the teachings of their treacherous and impure casuistry, with a success that seemed more than human. I have seen these priests impose their pretendedly divine authority, and sustain it by mock miracles, for ends that were simply devilish. I have had poured into my ears, what can never be uttered, and what ought not to be believed, but was only too plainly true. And I have seen that all that is most deplorable is not an accident, but a result, and an inevitable result, and a confessedly...
Seite 3 - We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour. Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.
Seite 54 - ... mortally offended his Lord and God : whilst the other sins, which do not occur to him after diligent thought, are understood to be included as a whole in that same confession ; for which sins we confidently say with the prophet : From my secret sins cleanse me, O Lord.1 Now, the 1 Psa.

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