This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...than to be even king or kaiser?" "Unquestionably, but only because I believe the Church to be really the kingdom of God on earth, her doctrines to be the revealed word of God, and her sacraments to be really instituted by Christ himself, and that they really confer the grace they signify, are the channels through which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...than to be even king or kaiser?" "Unquestionably, but only because I believe the Church to be really the kingdom of God on earth, her doctrines to be the revealed word of God, and her sacraments to be really instituted by Christ himself, and that they really confer the grace they signify, are the channels through which the Holy Ghost is really infused into our hearts, regenerates us, elevates us to a higher life, and makes us heirs and jointheirs with Christ of eternal glory in the heavens. Take away that belief, suppose me to act from calculation, not faith, from the mere love of earthly power, I should see no glory or greatness in the priesthood, I should find nothing in it to sustain me in my labors, or to console me in my privations, and should say with St. Paul, 'if in this life only we have hope, we are of all men the most miserable.' What could we, if we believed not, see in the domination of the Church, even if we should secure it, worth living for and dying for?" "You pretend, Reverend Father, that your Church is satisfied with the order established here, and that she really favors the great principles of natural freedom and equality on which our republic is founded. If she approves these principles, and is satisfied with the relations which subsist here between Church and State, why has she nowhere founded the state on the basis of equal rights?" "The Church is not the state nor the framer of its constitution, and she has not and never has pretended to have temporal authority in the temporal order. She is a spiritual kingdom--the kingdom of God on earth--and she leaves to the civil and political order that which God himself leaves to it--human free will. She has always asserted the great principles which the American ...
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