A Free Protestant Church
"The 'Authority of the Church, it is now ascertained, contains within itself tendencies subversive of true belief, and the very stewardship and developing office' confided to it [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
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"The 'Authority of the Church, it is now ascertained, contains within itself tendencies subversive of true belief, and the very stewardship and developing office' confided to it [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following document has within the last week been circulated in Sydney. It will be read with considerable interest by both Catholics and Protestants :â TO THE CLERGY AND LAITY OF THE DIOCESE OP SYDNEY…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MY LORD,—In a letter, written to the Sydney Morning Herald by Mr. Sconce, in reply to one from me, which appeared in that paper of last Saturday, there is the following passage— My firm conviction is that there is not a man in the world who would more…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hitherto it has been generally believed that the Reformation in England was in reality the work of the civil power, which ousted the old Church and intruded a new Church by act of parliament and truly, when we read that the actual governors of the Church…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'' These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brethren Where are the homes of Paschal mirth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Impressed with a notion that, under present circumstances, "no security is to be looked for," on the part of members of the Anglican Establishment, " without a recurrence to first principles, such as, a few years since, would hardly have been ventured upon before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the 27th of January, 1547, Henry died, and was succeeded by his only son, Edward, little more than nine years old. From that moment the Reformation proceeded rapidly, without interruption or impediment. There was no longer a monarch on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I. Because it is, generally speaking, necessary to salvation, according to the institution of Christ (S. Matth, xvi. 18, 19; xvii. 27; S. Luke v. 3, 4; xii. 41, 42; xxii. 32; S. John i. 42; xxi. 15, 16, 17, &c.), and the testimony of the Saints, that Christians…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WANT of space has prevented us from noticing before the paper on Image Worship, compiled for the Guardian by the Rev. J. C; Grylls. The only reason for regretting this, is that as the second number of that publication…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE concluded the first portion of our notice of Mr. Grylls' article on Image-worship, with a few remarks upon the obvious truth to which Dr. Arnold afforded his testimony, that the Old Testament prohibitions as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The researches that I was obliged to make for the composition of my history of Pope Innocent III., had fixed my attention upon the wonderful structure that distinguishes the edifice of the Catholic Church. I was lost in admiration in observing the vigorous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Silently, stedfastly, onward they go. Soothing and smoothing the pillow of woe; No dwelling too wretched, no chamber too drear, For the "Sisters of Mercy" are strangers to fear…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE inserted a short time since a brief but interesting account of the "Consecration of the first Catholic Church in New Zealand, as well as the very appropriate discourse delivered on that solemn occasion by the Rev. Mr. O'Reily, of Wellington. It appears that the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WHAT a blessing to be born in a Protestant land and how thaukrul should English children be, that they can read their Bibles without the fear of a " priest" taking them away !…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BROTHER ELECTORS,—Attempts have been made through the public Press and by other means, to work upon your grateful feelings, and to induce you, at the coming Election, to record your votes in favour of Messrs. Wentworth and Bland. on the ground of the services…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →John Bede, by the Grace of God and the favor of the Holy See, Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australia, &c., &c., &c. To the faithful of Sydney, Greeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have arrived at strange times, in which it behoves us to look before and after—from the lessons of the past taking thought about the future. When not merely the political boundaries of Europe are shaken, but its social state is convulsed to its very foundations;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"I think that a Catholic is a member of Christ's Church just as much as I am, and I could well endure one form of that Church in Ireland and another in England. "We are suffering here from that accursed division among…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We are glad to find that the Tractarian doctrines in this colony are not likely to meet with that toleration which they have met with in England, They have already elicited the strongest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MY DEAR FRIEND,—You have asked me to give you an account of the reasons which have induced me, after much consideration, and at the sacrifice of many feelings and some worldly advantages, to abandon the Communion in which I was brought up, and to join…
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