A Catechism On The Constitution And Ordinances Of The Kingdom Of Christ

Author : Frederick Denison Maurice
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230276076
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom of Christ; Or, Hints Respecting the Principles, Constitution, and Ordinances of the Catholic Church written by Frederick Denison Maurice and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES. [A.l In the text the Quaker expresses his belief " thai the catechumens in the primitive Church were not taught something wholly different in kind from that which they learnt after their baptism," that " they were not reasoned with upon those selfish motives which it must have been the object of their after initiation, to cure them of." It is probable that many passages may be produced from the fathers, to refute this opinion; to show that they did sometimes resort to selfish arguments, upon the plea that pure things are meant for the pure. Such a practice is so very plausible, so very flattering to our spiritual pride, and Iherefore has prevailed so much in all later ages of the Church, that one must expect to find the seeds of it in the earliest. From the excellent principle, that milk is for babes and meat for grown men, an economist might easily pass to the notion that there are some constitutions which are not even fit for milk, and that to these some liquid drawn from the muddy streams of the world, or distilled from its poisonous herbs, may be fitly administered. But that this was not the habitual and deliberate opinion of these ages, may, I think, be very clearly inferred from the short treatise of Augustine, " De Catechizandis rudibus."* This valuable book was addressed to a Carthagenian deacon, who had complained of the difficulty which he found in preserving the cheerfulness and freedom of his own mind, while he was engaged in catechising. The remarks which St. Augustine makes upon this subject well deserve the attention of all teachers, whether in the pulpit or the school-room. It is not, however, for their sake, that I refer to this little work, but that the reader may see in what spirit, a Bishop of the fourth...