The Life Ofreynold Pecock, S.T.P. (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.1820 Excerpt: ... "be obscured in particularibus agendis. That even among Chap. "the things to be believed, there are proposed to us not IIL "only those things to which reason cannot attain, but also "those to which it can." 17. In the four remaining parts of this book the Bishop proceeds, according to the method he had set down at the beginning, in special manner to repress the Wiclifists overblaming the Clergy, by answering the objections made by them, to the eleven governances or usages of the Church, with which they found fault, and making proof to the same eleven governances. Those of them which he here considers are these six. 1. The using of images in churches. 2. Pilgrimage. 3. The possessions of the Clergy. 4. Divers orders or degrees of Clergy. 5. The primacy of St. Peter and his successors. 6. The Religious. 18. As to the first of these, Erasmus observed, that there was this difference betwixt the state of the Church in his time, and that of the primitive Church; "that Epistoia, "whereas for some ages it was thought an abominable 47'Lon"thing for a painted or engraven image to be seen in the don. 1642. "churches of Christians; then the use of images was car"ried to that height, that it not only exceeded all bounds, "but was even far from being decent; since there were to "be seen in churches such unseemly paintings as were in "porticos and taverns. However by degrees it came to be "believed, that in these images there was a revelation of "the real presence of the saints whose images they were, "and that the saints assisted and were personally present "physically with them. Insomuch that in the second "Council of Nice, celebrated A. D. 787, it was decreed, "that an honorary worship was to be paid to the life"giving cross of Christ, the images of the blessed Virgin...