The Anglo-Saxon Church: Its History, Revenues and General Character

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J. W. Parker, 1856 - 295 páginas

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Página 209 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Página 201 - The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.
Página 117 - Ceale-hyth, in section 16, requires ' that none of Irish extraction be permitted to usurp to himself the sacred ministry, in any one's diocese ; nor let it be allowed such an one to touch any thing which belongs to those of the holy order ; nor to receive any thing from them in baptism, or in the celebration of the mass ; or that they administer the eucharist to the people, because we are not certain how or by whom they were ordained. We know how it is enjoined in the canons, that no bishop or presbyter...
Página 232 - Second, That I will forbid rapacity and all iniquities to every condition. 'Third, That I will command equity and mercy in all judgments, that to me and to you the gracious and merciful God may extend his mercy.
Página 230 - Quartum vero genus est monachorum quod nominatur gyrovagum, qui tota vita sua per diversas provincias ternis aut quaternis diebus per diversorum celias hospitantur, semper vagi et numquam stabiles, et propriis voluntatibus et gulae illecebris servientes, et peí omnia deteriores sarabaitis. De quorum omnium horum misérrima conversation melius est silere quam loqui.
Página 118 - desired that he might be buried in the open church-yard, and not in the chancel of the minster, as was usual with other bishops, and his request was complied with : but the monks on his being canonized, considering it disgraceful for the saint to lie in a public cemetery, resolved to remove his body into the choir; which was to...
Página 55 - Mr. Soames very cursorily says: "Augustine received about the same time from Gregory the insidious compliment of a pall. He was charged also to establish twelve suffragan bishops, and to select an archbishop for the see of York. Over this prelate, who was likewise to have under his jurisdiction twelve suffragan sees, he had a personal grant of precedence. After his death the two archbishops were to rank according to priority. of consecration.
Página 50 - His next question was, ' What do you call the tribe from which these young people spring ? ' ' Angles,' said the dealer. • Ah ! that is well,' Gregory rejoined ; ' Angels they are in countenance, and choirs of angels they ought to be. Where in Britain do their kindred live ? ' 'In Deura,' was the reply. ' Well again,' Gregory said ; ' it is our duty to deliver them from God's ire.
Página 248 - Where art thou, comrade?' and to them answered the head, 'Here, here, here.* They all were answered as often as any of them called, until they all came through the calling to it. There lay the gray wolf that guarded the head, and with his two feet had the head embraced, greedy and hungry, and for God durst not taste the head, and held it against wild beasts.
Página 51 - Britain. Austin now rallied his spirits, proceeded northwards, and providing himself with interpreters in Gaul, set sail for the chalky cliffs of Kent. He landed in the isle of Thanet, and thence despatched a messenger to Ethelbert, informing him of his arrival, and declaring that he had come thus far in hope of showing him the way to heaven. By the Kentish prince, however well the message might have pleased him, it was cautiously received. He gave no permission to his Roman guests for a farther...

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