XX Century Cyclopaedia and Atlas: Biography, History, Art, Science and Gazeteer of the World, 5. köideAinsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Annandale Gebbie & Company, 1901 |
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Page 23 - Council approving, we teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed : that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal Church...
Page 23 - ... the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed that his Church should be endowed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such...
Page 323 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is Faith.
Page 156 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 291 - Albany, the following proposed changes in the Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America...
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Page 343 - ... but he was soon taken under the care of a maternal relation in easy circumstances. At school, he made rapid progress in Latin and other studies ; in 1501, entered the university of Erfurt ; in 1503, received the degree of master, and delivered lectures on the physics and ethics of Aristotle. About this time, he discovered, in the library of the university, a Latin Bible, and found, to his no small delight, that it contained more than the excerpts in common use. He was destined by his father to...
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