“Then we are happy therefore when fully we enjoy God, as an object wherein the powers of our souls are satisfied with everlasting delight: so although we be men, yet by being unto God United live as it were the life of God.”
—The Judicious Richard Hooker
Anglican Bishop, Caroline Divine, and prominent author in The Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology, John Cosin, continues with what Roman Catholicism would need to agree with to be at peace with the Catholic Faith/Religion in the Church of England
I don't think this type of posting is conducive to helping people better understand the Anglican Way. This unattributed excerpt comes from a fascinating book of "Private Prayers" published under the authority of Queen Elizabeth I (see screenshot). The 1560 document quoted here is…
"To praise God tunefully upon an instrument...is...an outward token that the members of the body & the thoughts of the heart are, like the instruments themselves, in proper order & control, all of them together living & moving by the Spirit's cry and breath."
-St. Athanasius
"Wed. 27th...Spoke to a wicked set of people and insulted a son of a Baptist preacher and the Baptist made a noise about it."
-Diary of John Early (Methodist), 1807
"Devout conversations on spiritual matters...is a great aid to spiritual progress, especially when persons of the same mind and spirit associate together in God."
-Thomas a Kempis (IOC I.10)
Image: Jonathan and David, by Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano (c.1459–1517)
My 12yo son is begging me for a phone, but he got so bored this summer that he went to the bookshelf and pulled off a copy of the Iliad, asked me if it was any good, and has been reading it for the last three days. Not helping his case.
so the Church of England became Protestant at the Reformation, in order that she might be more truly and purely Catholic; and, as far as Papal errors are concerned, if Rome will become truly Catholic, then, but not till then, the Church of England will cease to be Protestant."
In the Disputation, Whitaker cites dozens of his near contemporaries in Rome—many of them in support of his arguments! We have added footnotes in our new edition to aid the reader on these points. See two such examples here.
Today’s collect from @churchofengland is for Ascension Day. We glorify the ascended Christ in Heaven, so placing the rightful home of our hearts and minds firmly with him there. Such glory, such hope!
Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature - St Mark 16
“We first state that we in no way disapprove of, but rather praise—indeed, admire—the monastic life, such as flourished in the early beginnings of the Church and continued for several centuries.”
- Dr. Samuel Ward, Determination 18.
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