Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Tracts for the Times 2: The Catholic Church No. 2.] (Ad Clerum.) These Tracts are continued in Numbers, and sold at the price of 2d. for each sheet, or 7 s. for 50 copies. LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD AND WATERLOO PLACE. 1840 GILBERT & RIVINGTON, Printers, St. John's Square, London. Source: This ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Tracts for the Times 3: Thoughts on Alteration in the Liturgy, 1833 No. 3] These Tracts are continued in Numbers, and sold at the price of 2d. for each sheet, or 7 s. for 50 copies. LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD AND WATERLOO PLACE. 1840 GILBERT & RIVINGTON, Printers, St. John's Square, London.

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Tracts for the Times 1: Thoughts on the Ministerial Commisson, 1833 No. 1. (Ad Clerum) Price 1d. THOUGHTS ON THE MINISTERIAL COMMISSION. RESPECTFULLY ADDRESSED TO THE CLERGY. I Am but one of yourselves, --a Presbyter; and therefore I conceal my name, lest I should take too much on myself by speaking in my own person. Yet speak I must; ...

Tracts for the Times ADVENT SERMONS ON ANTICHRIST. SERMON I. THE TIMES OF ANTICHRIST. 2 THESS. ii. 3. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that Day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. THE Thessalonian Christians had supposed that the coming of CHRIST was near at hand. St. Paul writes to warn them against such an ...

Tracts for the Times THE VISIBLE CHURCH. LETTERS TO A FRIEND. No. III. YOU have some misgivings, it seems, lest the doctrine I have been advocating should lead to Popery. I will not, by way of answer, say, that the question is not, whether it will lead to Popery, but whether it is in the Bible; because it would bring the Bible and Popery into one sentence, and seem to imply the possibility of ...

Tracts for the Times HEADS OF A WEEK-DAY LECTURE, DELIVERED TO A COUNTRY CONGREGATION IN --------SHIRE. BEFORE we meet again, we shall have celebrated the feast of St. Simon and St. Jude, the Apostles. You will be at your daily work, and will not have the opportunity to attend the Service in Church. For that reason, it may be as well, you should lay up some good thoughts against that day; and ...

Tracts for the Times THE VISIBLE CHURCH. (In Letters to a Friend.) LETTER I. You wish to have my opinion on the doctrine of the Holy Catholic Church, as contained in Scripture, and taught in the Creed. So I send you the following lines, which perhaps may serve, through GODS blessing, to assist you in your search after the truth in this matter, even though they do no more; indeed no remarks, ...

Tracts for the Times ON THE APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION IN THE ENGLISH CHURCH. WHEN Churchmen in England maintain the Apostolical Commission of their Ministers, they are sometimes met with the objection, that they cannot prove it without tracing their orders back to the Church of Rome; a position, indeed, which in a certain sense is true. And hence it is argued, that they are reduced to the dilemma, ...

Tracts for the Times ON ARGUING CONCERNING THE APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION. Men are sometimes disappointed with the proofs offered in behalf of some important doctrines of our religion; such especially as the necessity of Episcopal Ordination, in order to constitute a Minister of Christ. They consider these proofs to be not so strong as they expected, or as they think desirable. Now such persons ...

Tracts for the Times MORTIFICATION OF THE FLESH A SCRIPTURE DUTY. If we take the example of the Holy men of Scripture as our guide, certain bodily privation and chastisement area very essential duty to all who wish to serve GOD, and prepare themselves for his presence. 1. First we have the example of Moses. His recorded Fasts were miraculous; still they were Fasts, and the ordinance was to the ...

Tracts for the Times THE REFORMED CHURCH. All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD because the foundation of the House of the LORD was laid. But many of the Priests and Levites, the chief of the fathers, who were ancient men that had seen the first House, when the foundation of this House was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice.EZRA iii. 11, 12. SOME ...

Tracts for the Times PRIMITIVE EPISCOPACY. IN primitive times the first step towards evangelizing a heathen country seems to have been to seize upon some principal city in it, commonly the civil metropolis, as a centre of operation; to place a Pastor, i. e. (generally) a Bishop there; so surround him with a sufficient number of associates and assistants; and then to wait, till, under the ...

Tracts for the Times RITES AND CUSTOMS OF THE CHURCH. He who is duly strengthened in faith, does not go so far as to require argument and reason for what is enjoined, but is satisfied with the tradition alone. Chrysost. in 1 Cor. Hom. 26. THE reader of ecclesiastical history is sometimes surprised at finding observances and customs generally received in the Church at an early date, which have ...

Tracts for the Times VIA MEDIA. No. I. Laicus.Will you listen to a few free questions from one who has not known you long enough to be familiar with you without apology I am struck by many things I have heard you say, which show me that, somehow or other, my religious system is incomplete; yet at the same time the world accuses you of Popery, and there are seasons when I have misgivings whither ...

Tracts for the Times VIA MEDIA. No. II. Laicus. I am come for some further conversation with you; or rather, for another exposition of your views on Church matters. I am not well read enough to argue with you; nor, on the other hand, do I profess to admit all you say: but I want, if you will let me, to get at your opinions. So will you lecture if I give the subjects Clericus. To lecture, as you ...

Tracts for the Times THE GROUNDS OF OUR FAITH. EVERY system of theology has its dangers, its tendencies towards evil. Systems short of the truth have this tendency inherent in themselves, and in process of time discover it, and work out the anticipated evil, which is but the legitimate though latent consequence of their principles. Thus, we may consider the present state of Geneva the fair ...

Tracts for the Times THE PRESENT OBLIGATION OF PRIMITIVE PRACTICE. When we look around upon the present state of the Christian Church, and then turning to ecclesiastical history acquaint ourselves with its primitive form and condition, the difference between them so strongly acts upon the imagination, that we are tempted to think, that to vase our conduct now on the principle acknowledged then, ...

Tracts for the Times THE EPISCOPAL CHUCH APOSTOLICAL. There are many persons at the present day, who, from not having turned their minds to the subject, think they are Churchmen in the sense in which the early Christians were, merely because they are Episcopalians. The extent of their Churchmanship is, to consider that Episcopacy is the best form of Ecclesiastical Polity; and again, that it ...

Tracts for the Times ON THE CONTROVERSY WITH THE ROMANISTS. (Against Romanism.No. 1.) THE controversy with the Romanists has overtaken us like a summer's cloud. We find ourselves in various parts of the country preparing for it, yet, when we look back, we cannot trace the steps by which we arrived at our present position. We do not recollect what our feelings were this time last year on the ...

Tracts for the Times ON THE ROMAN BREVIARY AS EMBODYING THE SUBSTANCE OF THE DEVOTIONAL SERVICES OF THE CHURCH CATHOLIC. Teach her to know and love her hour of prayer, And evermore, As faith grows rare, Unlock her heart, and offer all its store, In holier love and humbler vows, As suits a lost returning spouse.--Christian Year. There is so much of excellence and beauty in the services of the ...

Tracts for the Times ON PURGATORY. (Against Romanism.No. 3.) THE extract from Archbishop Usshers Answer to a Jesuit, contained in Tract 72, on the subject of the ancient Commemorations for the Dead in Christ, may fitly be succeeded by an inquiry as to what degree and sort of proof remains for the Roman tenet of Purgatory, after deducting from the evidence those usages or statements of the early ...