The Character and Prospects of the Church of Rome, 2 Discourses (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: ilie crucifix, and the most paltry relics of departed saints. The leading doctrine in the Christian system is the existence and glorious sufficiency of the mediation of Jesus Christ; but the Church of Rome has dishonoured the One Mediator, by associating with him, in the discharge of this exalted office, angels, and all the multitude of departed saints. Christianity proclaims the one sacrifice of Christ to be the great atonement, the only propitiation for sin, and that, being infinitely precious, it needs never to be repeated; but the Church of Rome affirms that this sacrifice does need to be repeated, and is repeated in tli/: celebration of the mass, which service she declares to be the offering up of a " true propitiatory sacrifice, not mwe.'y for the living, but also for the dead." Christianity proclaims to guilty men pardon of sin and acceptance before God, freely through the righteousness of the Redeemer, received by faith; but the J''iiwl Church introduces into the ground of a sinner's justification, penances, satisfactions, indulgences, and, especially, the merit of good works; and her last general council declares those to be accurted, who maintain, that justifying faith is nothing else than a trust in the divine mercy, manifested to sinners through Jesus Christ. Christianity declares that holiness of heart and life, proceeding from the regenerating and purifying influence of the Spirit of God, is imlispensibly nece- nary to prepare the soul for admission into the heavenly kingdom; but, according to the Church of Rome, baptism is regeneration; penance, confession, and the mass, are the sanctification of the life; and the sacrament of extreme unction infallibly secures introduction into heaven. The supreme headship of our Redeemer, in and over his Church, is...