Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. WHETHEE BABYLON IN THE APOCALYPSE IS THE CITY OP EOME. The subject of our Inquiry is;-- "Whether the Prophecies in the Apocalypse1, or Revelation of St. John, respecting Babylon, concern Rome as she now is ? This Question divides itself into two parts; First; Do these prophecies concern the City in which the Bishop of Rome holds his See ? Secondly; Do they concern that City in her spiritual as well as her temporal character; that is, do they concern her as a Chubch, as well as a City ? and as exercising power, not merely at Rome and in Italy, but in many other. countries, and over many other nations, of the world ? Let us begin with the consideration of the former of these two questions, Do these prophecies concern the City Op Rome ? 1. First, these Apocalyptic prophecies, which describe the Woman who is called Babylon, and is seated on the Beast with seven heads and ten horns, do not concern the older, literal, Assyrian, Babylon. The 1 Chapters ziii. xiv. xvi. xvii. xviii. xix. B inscription on the Woman's forehead is Mystery *; indicating a spiritual meaning. This word had been used by St. John's brother Apostle St. Paul, in his description of the Mystery of Iniquity, opposed to the Mystery of Godliness': and St. John adopts the word from St. Paul, and appears to apply it to the same object as that which had been pourtrayed by that Apostle *. Again, the Babylon of the Apocalypse is described as a City existing and reigning in St. John's age5; but the literal, or Assyrian, Babylon had long ceased to be a reigning city when St. John wrote. Therefore the Babylon of the Apocalypse cannot be the literal or Assyrian Babylon. 2. What, then, is the City of which St. John speaks ? It is called by him a Gbeat City e, and it is one...

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Excerpt from Union With Rome; "Is Not the Church of Rome the Babylon of the Book of Revelation?" An Essay Merciful lord, we beseech Thee to cast Thy bright beams of light upon Thy Church, that it being enlightened by the doctrine of Thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist, saint john, may so walk in the light of Thy Truth, that finally it may attain to the light of everlasting life, through jesus christ our. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book discusses the different understandings of 'catholicity' that emerged in the interactions between the Church of England and other churches - particularly the Roman Catholic Church and later the Old Catholic Churches - from the early 1830s to the early 1880s. It presents a pre-history of ecumenism, which isolates some of the most distinctive features of the ecclesiological positions of the different churches as these developed through the turmoil of the nineteenth century. It explores the historical imagination of a range of churchmen and theologians, who sought to reconstruct their churches through an encounter with the past whose relevance for the construction of identity in the present went unquestioned. The past was no foreign country but instead provided solutions to the perceived dangers facing the church of the present. Key protagonists are John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey, the leaders of the Oxford Movement, as well as a number of other less well-known figures who made their distinctive mark on the relations between the churches. The key event in reshaping the terms of the debates between the churches was the Vatican Council of 1870, which put an end to serious dialogue for a very long period, but which opened up new avenues for the Church of England and other non-Roman European churches including the Orthodox. In the end, however, ecumenism was halted in the 1880s by an increasingly complex European situation and an energetic expansion of the British Empire, which saw the rise of Pan-Anglicanism at the expense of ecumenism.