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Mornings Among The Jesuits At Rome: By The Rev. Michael Hobart Seymour - Softcover

Michael Hobart Seymour

 
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Mornings Among The Jesuits At Rome: By The Rev. Michael Hobart Seymour An observer’s travelogue and polemical enquiry, Rev. Michael Hobart Seymour’s work documents his extensive, firsthand encounters in Rome: attending Jesuit ceremonies, witnessing ordinations, and conversing with scholars and priests at the Collegio Romano. The book presents an objective yet strongly Anglican critique of Roman Catholic practice, focusing on themes such as obedience, the alleged universal authority of the pope, the Infallibility doctrine, indulgences, and the mass. It juxtaposes Anglican emphases—Scripture as the rule of faith, justification by faith, and the Protestant view of sacraments—with Catholic doctrines on transubstantiation, purgatory, Marian devotion, and the cult of relics. Across chapters, Seymour reproduces long dialogues about Tradition vs. Scripture, the Fathers, and the Church’s hierarchy, while also exploring the catacombs, relics, and historical practices of early Christianity as seen through a Protestant lens. Published in the mid-19th century, the volume remains a significant primary source for anti-Catholic polemics and historical understanding of Roman Catholicism in that era.

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