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Churches, 1847

128 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 7

Congregational Church, Redfern

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1847 · page 2

THE foundation stone of the above church was laid, as advertised, on Tuesday last at four o'clock in the afternoon. The day was remarkably fine, and a great number of…

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The Great Apostacy; or the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ, But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reormation

The Sentinel · Thursday 18 March 1847 · page 4

132. We come now to the passage of Bishop Tanner, upon which you lay so much stress, and which, you say, contradicts Hume, and decides the question in favour of monasteries. Now, this passage is not…

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REVIEW. Annals of the Virgin Saints. By a Priest of the Church of England. London: Joseph Masters. Cambridge: J. T. Walters. 1846. Small 8vo. pp. 416

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 20 March 1847 · page 4

This is one of those beautifully, but painfully mysterious brochures, whereof so many have appeared during the last few years. It is the work of a mind full of Catholic feeling, Catholic devotion, and…

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The Great Apostacy; or the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Re-ormation

The Sentinel · Thursday 25 March 1847 · page 4

140. Your quotation from Bates comes on next. There is not a single word in the passage in favor of monks or monasteries; but in the very next page to that from which you have taken this quotation,…

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Domestic Intelligence. Surry Hills Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 March 1847 · page 2

A MEETING of members of the Church of England, interested in the proposed erection of a Church in the neighbourhood of the new Court House, was held on Thursday evening, the…

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Church Meeting

The Australian · Saturday 27 March 1847 · page 3

A public Meeting of the inhabitants of the Surry Hills and Paddington, interested in the erection of a Church in that locality, was held on Thursday evening in the Court House at…

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The Catholic Hierarchy in Synod

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 31 March 1847 · page 4

Time has healed the differences of opinion created by the Bequests Act among the highest order of the Catholic Church in Ireland; the utmost concord reigns in the Synod of Venerable Bishops assembled…

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The Great Apostacy ; or the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ. But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reormation

The Sentinel · Thursday 1 April 1847 · page 4

Notwithstanding all your rhetoric, William, I cannot be brought to shed one tear over the fall of these devouted monuments of idolatry, these styes of uncleanness, these foul nests of superstition. They…

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Catholic Emigrants

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1847 · page 3

Howard, the prisoners' friend, devoted his life to the alleviation of their distress, the consequence of their crimes, for the most part, but in numberless instances, of their oppressions. Mrs…

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Episcopalian Church Grants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1847 · page 3

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, March 29 — The descriptions of the following grants of land, which have been appropriated to the purposes of the united Church of England and…

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The Great Apostacy; or the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ. But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reormation

The Sentinel · Thursday 8 April 1847 · page 4

"But there were, at Canterbury, two objects by which the Reformation birds of prey were particularly attracted; namely, the monastery of St. Austin and the to [?] of Thomas a Becket. The former of…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. the Saints in Algiers—an Illustration of Romanism. (From the Church and State Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 April 1847 · page 3

THE following letter, which we borrow, as will be seen from a Popish paper, requires no comment upon our part: we offer it, therefore, without a word of remark, to the wondering…

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Domestic Intelligence. Australasian Holy Catholic Guild of St. Mary and St. Joseph

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 14 April 1847 · page 2

In pursuance of previous announcement, the Brethren of the above named Confraternity assembled in the new school-house at the rear of St. Mary's cathedral on Sunday morning last, for the…

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The Great Apostacy; or the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ. But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reformation

The Sentinel · Thursday 15 April 1847 · page 4

182 "The whole country," you say, "was thus disfigured; it had the appearance, if we look well into it, it has even to this day. Nothing has ever yet come to supply the place of what was then…

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Saint Peter's Prophetic Description of False Teachers, of the Apostate Church of Rome. Ii. Epistle and Ii. Chapter

The Sentinel · Thursday 22 April 1847 · page 4

Verse 1.--'But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that, bought them,…

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The Great Apostacy or the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ. But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reormation

The Sentinel · Thursday 22 April 1847 · page 4

186. So you have, at last, formerly taken leave of history and facts, and entered fully into the region of conjecture. I wish, for the sake of historical truth that you had done this long before; because it is less…

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The Great Apostacy; or the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ, But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reormation. a prayer to the Virgin Mary, the great Idol of the Apostate Church of Rome

The Sentinel · Thursday 6 May 1847 · page 4

"Most sweet Lady, for the great joy you had when your sweet Son fed five thousand people, with five barly loaves and two fishes; sweet Lady, pray that he would govern my five senses (which answer to the…

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The Great Apostacy; or the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ, Bu the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. An-answer to Cobbett's History of the Reormation

The Sentinel · Thursday 13 May 1847 · page 4

"Which four articles he refused to recant. Then came to him a certain schoolmaster, saying, 'My friend George, dost thou not fear the death and punishment which thou must suffer? If thou wert…

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Perversion to the Church of Rome

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 May 1847 · page 4

LEEDS, Tuesday.—Considerable excitement has been caused in Leeds, by a clergyman and two other members of the Church of England having left the pale of the establishment, and gone…

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The Great Apostacy; or the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ. But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reormation

The Sentinel · Thursday 20 May 1847 · page 4

Thus it was from idol-makers and image worshippers, as Archbishop Usher says, that this gross opinion of the animal eating and drinking of Christ in the Sacrament drew its first breath; God having, for their…

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