Triennial addresses delivered at the visitation of the diocese of Lincoln - Softcover

Christopher Wordsworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1130150127 ISBN 13: 9781130150124

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com, 2012

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...which He has set before us in His Holy Word, together with terrible denunciations of His fierce wrath against those nations of Canaan who had been guilty of breaking it, and with solemn warnings to us of similar and worse chastisements, if we, who have so much clearer knowledge than they had, imitate their example by violating it? And you, my reverend brethren, remember this I entreat you. To each one of you God says, " I have set thee a watchman; therefore thou shalt hear the word at My mouth, and warn others from Me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hand" (Ezekiel G 74 What our duty and comfort is. xxxiii. 7, 8). If you do not warn your people against contracting these marriages, which God forbids, you will be accountable to Him for them. But if you bear your testimony faithfully and courageously against them, then, whatever change may be made in the Law by the temporal Power, you will have delivered your own soul (Ezekiel xxxiii. 9), and you may save their souls from the sin and misery of contracting them, and you will not be accountable for the sore distress and anguish of mind which all faithful Priests will feel when persons who have contracted these marriages present themselves for Holy Commuion. You will not be responsible for the contradiction between the Law of the Church and that of the State; and for the conflict, and perhaps the disruption, which may then ensue between the temporal and spiritual Powers. And you will have the inexpressible comfort of having done your duty to men and to God, and will receive your reward hereafter at the Great Day. The Laws of man change, b...

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About the Author

Christopher Wordsworth (1807-85), the "Great Christopher" of Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, was a nephew of William the poet, and brother to Charles, the student who launched the University Boat Race. In 1832, Christopher took a gap-year, after his brilliant studies in ancient Greek and Latin classics, to travel back in time over two thousand years to Pericles' Athens. The account of his tour, Athens and Attica (1836), is still the perfect scholarly companion to the history, topography, and myths of an area compact in dimension yet vast in terms of its contribution to Western civilization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1130150127
• ISBN 13: 9781130150124
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 46