Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "
nunquam aliquis pervenerat qui baptizaret, aut cle- "
ricosordinaret,autpopulum consummaret"?"I went " every where to
promote your cause, even to remote " districts where no one had
ever arrived who could " baptize, or ordain clergy, or complete"
(perhaps confirm) " the people"?a testimony which appears to be
stronger than that which is conveyed in your extract. Upon the
evidence of two witnesses such as these I might be contented to
rest my case. The first, you at least must allow to be
unimpeachable ; and against the second you cannot object, as it is
given upon authority and documents which you yourself have produced
and relied on : but I have many more witnesses in reserve, and some
of them whose credit shall also be confirmed by your introduction
and approval. In your account of the first efforts of Pope
Celestine to relieve " the wants of the Irish, and to appoint " a
bishop for the superintendence of their infant " church," (p. 209,)
you relate, that " the person " chosen for this mission to the
Scots believing in " Christ, (for so it is specified by the
chronicler,) " was Palladius, a deacon of the Roman church".... "
and, whatever preachers of the faith, foreign or " native, might
have appeared previously in Ireland, " it seems certain that,
before this period, no Prosper Chron. Bass, et Antioch. Coss. It is
scarcely necessary to state, and quite unnecessary to prove, that,
by the Scots, the inhabitants of Ireland were, at that time,
exclusively meant. It is not only a truth relied on throughout your
work, but one that is denied by no one of any authority that has
examined the subject. Us. Prim. p. 734. - hierarchy had been there
instituted; bat that in " Palladius the Irish Christians saw their
first bishop." Now, as this mission is confessedly "to the Sco...
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
