Moral and devotional theology of the Church of Rome, according to the authoritative teaching of s. Alfonso de' Liguori. Re-pr. in part from the 'Christian remembrancer'.

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Page 72 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same...
Page 16 - Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3.
Page 49 - These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour ; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates : And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour ; and love no false oath : for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
Page 48 - In whose eyes a vile person is contemned ; But he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Page 72 - ... that part of the said, body politic called the spiritualty, now being usually called the English Church, which always hath been reputed, and also found of that sort, that both for knowledge, integrity, and sufficiency of number, it hath...
Page 11 - Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop...
Page 41 - GOD, of the Substance of the FATHER, begotten before the worlds, and Man, of the Substance of His Mother, born in the world; Perfect GOD, and Perfect Man: of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.
Page 48 - Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men ; that I might leave my people, and go from them ! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Page 3 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
Page 48 - If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

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