Paganism Not Abolished in the Roman Empire Or the Christian World: a Lecture ...
Paganism Not Abolished in the Roman Empire Or the Christian World: a Lecture ...
Charles Earl Preston
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Basil, or any writers of that antiquity. You may see, indeed, here and there, in the Fathers a * So called from his Liber Sententiarum, which was a digest in four Books of Sentences, or Propositions, extracted from the writings of the Fathers, and became the basis of the Scholastic Theology. It appeared in the year 1172. Digitized by Google 10 LETTER. notion borrowed from Philosophy (as they were originally philosophers); for instance, something like a Platonic or Pythagorean Purgatory : But yo...u will see nothing like indulgences, or a bank of merits, or a Romish purgatory, whereof the Pope has the key. It is not simply believing even a Popish tenet, or tenets, that makes a Papist, but beUeving on the Pope's authority. There is in the Fathers a divine strain of piety, and much of the spiritual life. This, we acknowledge, all should aspire after, and I make no doubt is attainable, and actually attained, in the communion of our Church, at least as well as in any other. You observe very justly that Christ's religion is spiritual, and the Christian Ufe supernatural; and that there is no judge of spiritual things but the Spirit of God.
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