Modern Hagiology (Volume 2); An Examination of the Nature and Tendency of Some Legendary and Devotional Works Lately Published Under the Sanction of the REV. J. H. Newman, the REV. Dr. Pusey, and the REV. F. Oakley (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1846. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... reduced to that state of living mechanism which would best lit them to be the blind and passive and unresisting instruments of artful and intriguing selfishness--when we know this--when all mankind knows it--when the common sense and good feeling of Christendom have made the name of Jesuit, in every language in Europe, the symbol for everything which is the reverse of truth and charity, it does seem a fearful and a most humiliating conclusion to the movement which has been so long distracting our church, that a clergyman holding a dignified station, in a protestant church and a protestant university, should thus avow himself the advocate of such a system, and devote himself whenever they are required by the superior to put their vow of poverty into effect, they shall dispose of their property by giving it to the poor, (by which they understand their own society, ) and not to their relations, " that they may the more perfectly follow the Evangelical Counsel which does not say, give to thy relations, but to the poor; and that they may exhibit a better example to all, of casting off inordinate affection to their parents, and of avoiding the inconveniencies of an inordinate distribution which proceeds from such love: and that by closing beforehand the avenue of recurring to parents and relations, and to a useless memory of themselves, they may more firmly and steadily persevere in their vocation. " Pauperibus (ut dictum sit) dispensare debent, nt consilium Evangelicum, quod non dicit, da consanguineis, sed pauperibus, perfectius sequantur, etut melius exemplum omnibus exhibeant, inordinatum erga parentes affectum exuendi, et incommoda inordinate distribution s, quae a dicto amore procedit, declinandi; atque ut ad parentes et consanguineis recurrendi, et ad in...