An Explanation of the Thirty Nine Articles With An Epistle Dedicatory to the R
An Explanation of the Thirty Nine Articles With An Epistle Dedicatory to the R
Alexander Penrose Forbes
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Since we continue to baptize, to teach, to celebrate the Holy Eucharist by virtue of a commission given to the Apostles pri- marily, it would be in the last degree inconsistent to deny the Church's power to absolve from sins in His Name. OF THE SACRAME^ 7 TS. 459 There is absolutely no doubt that this mercy towards grievous sinners was exercised by the Church from the very first. The course of public penance, by which the soul was prepared for the grace of Christ in the Abso- lution, is mention...ed by St. Irenseus, who speaks of an adulteress, who "having been converted, continued during the whole period [of her life] in a state of penitence" [egopoXoyovpevii, in exhomologesi, old Lat. ], " weeping and lamenting what she had undergone through the impostor " Marcus the Gnostic, and of the women, who, having been led astray by him, had no courage to undertake the labours of penance p ; by Tertullian, who shews how, by the disposition of divine goodness, penance purifies the soul from all sins whatsoever, how it is a plank which should bear those sunk beneath the waves of sin to the haven of Divine mercy, and how sin must not be con- cealed, but confessed sincerely i; by Lactantius, who observes as a distinctive note of the Church Catholic the advantage she has in having confession and pe- nance as the cure of sin and of the wounds of the soul r ; by Origen, who says the seventh means of ob- taining the remission of sin, hard and laborious, is penance, when the sinner waters his couch with his tears, when his tears become his meat day and night, when he blushes not to discover his sin to the priest of the Lord, and seek a remedy for the ills of his i.
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