Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects
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Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects

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作者: John Henry Newman
出版年: 2009-10
页数: 416
定价: $ 46.32
ISBN: 9781116712001



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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 170 TIte Impression made on the Reader by the Statements, of Scripture., THE characteristics then, of the narrative portion of Scripture are such as I have described; it is unsystematic and unstudied;?from which I would infer, that as Scripture relates facts without aiming at conv pleteness or consistency, so it relates doctrines also; so that, if it does after all include in its teaching the whole Catholic Creed, (as we of the English Church hold, ) this does not happen from any purpose in its writers so to do, but from the overruling providence of God, overruling just so far as this: to secure a certain result, not a certain mode of attaining it, ?not so as to interfere with their free and natural manner of writing, but by imperceptibly guiding it; in other words, not securing their teaching against indirectness and disorder, but against eventual incompleteness. From which it follows, that we must not be surprised to find in Scripture doctrines of the Gospel, however momentous, nevertheless taught obliquely, and capable only of circuitous proof;?such, for instance, as that of the Blessed Trinity, ?and, among them, the especial Church doctrines, such as the Apostolical Succession, the efficacy of the Holy Eucharist, and the essentials of the Ritual. The argument, stated in a few words, stands thus: ? Since distinct portions of Scripture itself are apparently inconsistent with one another, yet are not really so, herefore it does not follow that Scripture and Catholic doctrine are at variance with each other, even though there may be sometimes a difficulty in adjusting the one with the other. Now I propose to go over the ground again in somewhat a different way, not confining myself to illustrations from Scripture narrative, but taking others from Scripture teaching ...

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