The Variations of Popery

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R. B. Seeley, 1838 - Всего страниц: 551
 

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Стр. 204 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Стр. 195 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Стр. 181 - ... series of the exarchs, who had reigned with a subordinate power since the time of Justinian and the ruin of the Gothic kingdom. Rome was summoned to acknowledge the victorious Lombard as her lawful sovereign ; the annual tribute of a piece of gold was fixed as the ransom of each citizen, and the sword of destruction was unsheathed to exact the penalty of her disobedience. The Romans hesitated ; they entreated ; they complained ; and the threatening Barbarians were checked by arms and negotiations,...
Стр. 194 - Behold here are two swords' - when, namely, the apostles were speaking in the church - the Lord did not reply that this was too much, but enough. Surely he who denies that the temporal sword is in the power of Peter wrongly interprets the word of the Lord when He says: 'Put up thy sword in its scabbard'.
Стр. 200 - Fourth, the indignation of Almighty God and the blessed apostles Peter and Paul.
Стр. 356 - And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?
Стр. 208 - Without violating the sanctity of his promise, without alarming the fears of the Pagans, the artful monarch advanced, by slow and cautious steps, to undermine the irregular and decayed fabric of polytheism.
Стр. 243 - ... hopeful proposition, means the Roman pontiff, whom the canon law characterizes as the interpreter of an oath. Dens, in his theology, the modern standard of Catholicism in Ireland, authorizes this maxim.* The dispensation of a vow, says this criterion of truth, ' is its relaxation by a lawful superior in the place of God, from a just cause. The superior, as the vicar of God in the place of God, remits to a man the debt of a plighted promise. God's acceptance, by this dispensation, ceases : for...
Стр. 498 - A third reason for the injunction of sacerdotal celibacy arose from pontifical policy. Cardinal Rodolf, arguing in a Roman consistory in favor of clerical celibacy, affirmed that the priesthood, if allowed to...
Стр. 127 - A fourth variety, on this subject, makes the Pope superior to God. Equality with the Almighty, it might have been expected, would have satiated the ambition of the pontiff, and satisfied the sycophancy of his minions. But this was not the giddiest step in the scale of blasphemy. The superiority of the Pope over the Creator has been boldly and unblushingly maintained by pontiffs, theologians, canonists, and councils.

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