Letters to the Right Rev. John Hughes: Roman Catholic Bishop of New York

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Harper & brothers, 1855 - 370 páginas

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Página 148 - Is any man sick among you ? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil, in the name of the Lord.
Página 253 - God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son...
Página 227 - Christ, should you die the very next hour, your soul would go, cleansed by his atoning blood, to join the general assembly and church of the first-born in heaven. Need I stop, ere I close this letter, to place in contrast before you the gospel plan of salvation with the plan of your priests ? Must not the contrast strike yourselves, as you read and ponder ? You ask what you must do to be saved ? The priest tells you to confess — to do penance — to pray to the saints — to keep Lent — to eat...
Página 272 - And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Página vi - Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running.
Página 155 - And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you. As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.
Página 230 - Jeremiah, who had the civil and the religious welfare of his people equally at heart : ' 0 that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the blindness and folly of my people.
Página 28 - in the beginnings," but "in the beginning" God created the heavens and the earth. Indeed we declare, announce, and define that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.
Página 99 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Página 88 - Now what do you ask of me to do in order to receive the forgiveness of sin, and to be restored to the favor of God ? You send me to Peter or Paul, or some other saint on the catalogue, who may have never known me ; and who may never hear me, if I pray unto them. Or you send me to Mary, whom...

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