Life and Letters of Henry Parry Liddon, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, and Sometime Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford |
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LIFE & LETTERS OF HENRY PARRY John Octavius 1852-1923 Johnston,Francis 1851-1911 Paget No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 191 - Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special confession of his sins, if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter.
Page 193 - For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
Page 56 - And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death ; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Page 307 - Assuredly Liddon is the greatest power in the conflict with sin, and in turning the souls of men to God, that the nation now possesses.
Page 101 - Today I feel that for the first time in my life I stand face to face with the Eastern Church. To the outward eye she is at least as imposing as the Roman. To call her a petrifaction here in Russia would be a simple folly. That, on the other hand, she reinforces Rome in the cultus of the BVM and other matters is too plain to be disputed.
Page 102 - Right or wrong, it is a vast, energetic and most powerful body, with an evident hold upon the heart of the largest of European empires, indeed a force within the limits of Russia to which I believe there is no parallel in the West.
Page 252 - eyes' of the Church, or could do other than smile when they read the conventional, or sometimes the almost mystical, utterances of Episcopal and other authorities on the subject. The plain truth is that henceforth Oxford will belong to the Church of England just as much and just as little as does the House of Commons. It is still a centre of social and intellectual interests ; but as a centre of religious force it is no longer what it was, and is unlikely in the future to be what it still is.
Page 75 - Even now we do not acquiesce in the miserable conviction that you have cast in your lot with men, like Colenso and others, who are labouring to destroy and blot out the Faith of Jesus Christ from the hearts of the English people.
Page 185 - Church an opportunity which has been denied to it for three hundred years. Catholic, yet not papal ; episcopal, with no shadow of doubt or prejudice resting on the validity of its orders ; friendly with the orthodox East, yet free from the stiffness and one-sidedness of an isolated tradition ; sympathising with all that is thorough and honest in the critical methods of Protestant Germany, yet holding on firmly and strenuously to the Faith of antiquity...
Page 75 - I do not suppose that he would endorse its editorial irreligion ; he merely illustrates in one way, as Dr. Pusey in another, the exigencies of a position. ' You say, my dear Mr. Dean, that we refuse to preach in the same church with yourself. You will, I trust, forgive me for saying that Churchmen have hoped — hoped and prayed, hoped against hope — that one from whom so much might be expected as yourself would one day be with them. A very able undergraduate told me that he " had even shed tears...