On this page
-
Text (2)
-
An Account of Austinthe Monk 631
-
4 Iff 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
A Sketch Of The State Of Christianity In...
mans allowed to marry ? Answer . —This indulgence was for * rnerly granted by the Roman law ; but experience havfng shewn that no posterity can come from such marriages , they are pro * hibited . Query . —Is it lawful to baptize a woman with child ? Answer . —No inconvenience can arise from the practice . Query . —How soon after the birth may a child be baptized ? An *
swer . —Immediatel y _^ if necessary . Query . —How soon may a husband return to his wife after her delivery ? Answer . —* Not till after the child is weaned . Query . —After sexual intercourse , how soon is it lawful for a husband to enter the church ? Answer . —Not till he has purged himself by prayer and ablution . These nice cases of conscience were tiied with other inquiries concerning episcopal duties accompain answer
_^ to which Austin _received the following ' was not to destroy the heathen temples of the English ,, but only to remove the images of their gods _^ to wash the walls with holy water , to erect altars _^ and deposit relics in _their _^ and so convert them into Christian Churches ; not only to save the expense of building new ones , but that the people might more easily be prevailed upon to frequent those which they had been accustomed . He instructions : — He of the English ,, but places of worship to is directed further to
accommodate the ceremonies of the Christian worship as much as possible to those of the Heathen , that the people might not be much startled at the change ; and , in particular , he advises him to allow the Christian converts _^ on certain festivals , to kill and eat a great number of oxen , to the glory of God _^ as they had done formerly to the honour of the devil , ' * " These
admonitions ( says Dr . Henry ) which were but too well observed , introduced the grossest corruptions into the Christian worship , and shew how much the Apostles of the 6 th and 7 th centuries had departed from the simplicity and sincerity of those of the first "
Austin pretended to have wrought miracles since his arrival in Britain _^ which the pope affected to believe ., and he admonishes him not to be elated with vanity on the occasion , but to remember that this power was given _, not for his own sake-but remember that this power was given _, for the sake of those whose salvation cure . Of the said miracles one was , a certain blind man , after the Welsh 1 him : another was , leaving the print he first stepped upon at his landing he was appointed _, his restoring his bishops had failed of his foot on in the isle of 1 the stone hanet : a to _prosight to to cure
_xhird was , causing a fountain to spriri ihird was , causing a fountain to spring up for baptizing . Another miracle _^ no less _striking and _marvellous , was his calling up from the grave , first the dead corpse of an excommunicated person _, to make confession of his sins ,, in having refused the payment of tytbes , and . then that of the priest who had ex-
An Account Of Austinthe Monk 631
An Account of Austinthe Monk 631
4 Iff 2
4 Iff 2
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/11/
-