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Churches, 1839

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Reasons for subscribing to the XXXIX. Articles of the Established Church of England and Ireland: her Creeds and Confessions of Faith. Article Xxvi

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 19 August 1839 · page 4

Of the unworthiness of the Ministers which hinders not the effect of Sacrament, & c. I SHALL dispose of this article very briefly; it asserts that the private character of the priest does…

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Protestant Ascendancy in Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 26 August 1839 · page 2

WE copy from The Sydney Gazette, the speech, delivered by the Lord Bishop of Australia at the Meeting of the Diocesan? Committee in Parramatta. His Lordship's…

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Literary Notices Reasons for subscribing to the XXXIX. Articles of the Established Church of England and Ireland; her Creeds and Confessions of Faith Article Xxvii. Continued. Baptismal Regeneration

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 2 September 1839 · page 4

I AM perfectly aware that a diversity of opinion is prevalent in the Anglican Church respecting the doctrine of regeneration -- bishops, priests, and deacons, are divided, and most essentially so…

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Protestant Ascendancy in Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 2 September 1839 · page 2

IT was once remarked by a Romish divine to a Protestant clergyman, that there was after all but a PAPER PARTITION between the two churches, very true, said the latter,…

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Bishop Broughton advocating a great principle of the Roman Church

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 6 September 1839 · page 2

A High Churchman, and an Irish Orange Churchman, are a sect in the Church of England, and the dominant party in the Irish Church of England. Through the Oxford Tracts," the…

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To Our Catholic Correspondent, and to Augustine

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 9 September 1839 · page 2

We have received a letter from a Catholic gentleman, to which he proves from Scripture the duty of [?] and therefore argues, that the odious questions published in our last number and…

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Protestant Ascendancy in Church and State. the Bishop of Australia

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 9 September 1839 · page 2

IN our last week's publication we took the liberty of pointing out to the Bishop of Australia, a few of the causes which operate unfavourably to His Lordship's popularity…

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Literary Notices Reasons for subscribing to the XXXIX. Articles of the Established Church of England and Ireland; her Creeds and Confessions of Faith. Article Xxix

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 9 September 1839 · page 4

THE WICKED WHICH EAT NOT THE BODY OF CHRIST IN THE USE OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. "The wicked and such as be void of a lively faith, although they do carnally and visibly press…

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The Church in Danger!

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1839 · page 2

The Herald, of Friday, informs us, that His Excellency's speech (on education) "displays a most extraordinary confusion of ideas." It may possibly be considered presumptuous on our part,…

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Church of England

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 13 September 1839 · page 1

It is postively a fact, that the established Church of England has renounced Protestantism. The Arch-bishop of Canterbury has declared, to…

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Protestant Ascendancy in Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 16 September 1839 · page 2

OUR Papistical contemporary has at length drawn the sword and flung away the scabbard, and as a proof of his courage and skill he has the blasphemous assurance to…

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Literary Notices Reasons for subscribing to the XXXIX. Articles of the Established Church of England and Ireland her Creeds and Confessions of Faith. Article Xxxii. of the Marriage of Priests

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 16 September 1839 · page 4

"Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, are not commanded by God's law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: therefore, it is lawful for them, as for all other…

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Protestant Ascendancy in Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 23 September 1839 · page 2

WE have received our files of The London Record, giving full reports of the speeches delivered at the Anniversary Meetings of the various religious societies, and we are…

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Literary Notices Reasons for subscribing to the XXXIX. Articles of the Established Church of England and Ireland; her Creeds and Confessions of Faith. Article Xxxiii

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 23 September 1839 · page 4

OF excommunicate persons, how they are to be avoided. This article derives its authority from our Saviour's own command; "If he hear not the…

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New Publication. Vindication of the Presbyterian Community of Van Diemen's Land from the charges of the Church of England. By James Thomson, Esq., A. M. MACDOUGALL, Hobart Town

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 24 September 1839 · page 1

"Injury upon injury, and insult super added to injury!" Deeds of injustice "followed up by an acrimonious, a slanderous, and a dishonest attack upon the Presbytery…

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Conversions to the Catholic Faith

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 27 September 1839 · page 2

James Wheble, Esq., of Woodley Lodge, late High Sheriff of Berkshire, in a letter to the editor of the Reading Mercury, reckons the numbers of conversions to the…

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House of Lords—june 21. Roman Catholic Relief Act

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 30 September 1839 · page 2

The Earl of Winchelsea then rose and said, that in pursuance of the notice which he had given yesterday, it now became his duty to present to their lordships a petition signed by 3000…

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The Sydney Herald. Monday, September 30, 1839. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Roman Catholic Bigotry

The Sydney Herald · Monday 30 September 1839 · page 2

The name of Miss Byrne has now become familiar to the public. She has been assailed by a portion of the press; she has been denounced from the altar by a priest:…

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Popery in the High Church

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 1 October 1839 · page 2

It was boasted at one time, by some Irish zealots, in the heat of their proselytizing labour, that Emancipation would be unnecessary, as, in a few…

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The Sydney Herald. Friday, October 4, 1839 "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Domestic Intelligence. Church of England National Schools

The Sydney Herald · Friday 4 October 1839 · page 2

On Wednesday pursuant to advertisement, a meeting of the Diocesan Committee of the Society. for prom[?]ing Christian Knowledge and p[?]gating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, was held in the St…

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