A Word in Season; A Series of Subjects Addressed to the Flock Committed to His Charge (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PEEFACE TO THE SEEIES. One title given to our Lord in the holy Scriptures is that of Shepherd. He is the great and good Shepherd, who gave His life for the sheep. His flock is one, and embraces all the baptized. That flock He has committed to many shepherds, assigning to each a portion, according to their respective orders, and demanding, as a proof of their love to Him, that they " feed His sheep" and " the lambs- of His fold," whom He hath purchased with His own blood. Though the ministry of God's word in His house, and private instruction in your dwellings, are the chief means of conveying the knowledge of divine truth to your hearts, I have thought it good also to commit to writing some pastoral instruction for your reading and meditation, especially as many of you are often hindered from attending God's house. The subjects on which I have written will, I hope, by God's blessing, afford you spiritual strength and consolation, and advance you in the knowledge and love of the Father and of his Son Jesus Christ, whom truly to know is life eternal. And as these subjects contain nothing but Catholic truth?such truths as were preached by our Lord chapter{Section 4and His Apostles, and have been held by the universal Church in all past generations?none other things than what are read or acknowledged by the Church at large, and especially that portion of it which is established in this land, they will not, I trust, be unprofitable to any of God's baptized people into whose hands they may fall. Whilst, too, we hold you in our faith as " the sheep of Christ," and " the lambs of His flock," and labour by word and doctrine to lead you in God's most holy way, there must be on your part also an equal acknowledgment of us, in our office, as the ministers of Christ, clothed wi...