Anglo-Catholic Principles Vindicated, Ed. by J.C.S. (Paperback)

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. 1877 Excerpt: ...Christ is thus subjected to the indignity of having His Sacred Person profaned and insulted as often as an unworthy recipient chooses to approach and " take " Him, is the logical consequence of this materialistic theory.--"It is evident that in the Sacrament there is an unseen Reality with Which all communicants alike come into dote contact, Which all alike in some real truth recent, some spiritually to their great and endless benefit, some only externally to their unspeakable loss.... Our Lird is there, --the consequences of the approach depend on the condition of the communicant.1" Notwithstanding the gross irreverence towards the Lord Jesus Christ which this logical deduction involves, it is accepted by those who profess, and Do doubt feel, the deepest reverence for Him. Such u the blinding effect of error, and so fatal the blindness when the error is a deadly one '. Note C--Page 201. Question connected with the Administration of the ffo/y Eucharist--Midday Communion--Early and "Fatting" Communion--Consecrated Elements Unconsumed Iteration of Communion on the same Dag. This distinction between the two parts of the Sacrament, the "outward visible sign," which is, and remains, "material," and the "inward spiritual grace," which is not, and cannot be, subject to the conditions of " material" existence, --while it is of the highest importance as regards a right apprehension of the nature and reality of Christ's Presence, and con-' sequently, of the true doctrine of that Presence, in' the Holy Eucharist, at the same time furnishes a satisfactory solution of certain subordinate questions on points of practice connected with its administration aud reception, which have been, and continue to be...