The Great Catechism of the Holy Catholic, Apostolic, and Orthodox Church - edizione con copertina flessibile

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: SECOND PART. OF REPEALED RELIGION. SHEN man began to transgress the natural law of God, ? that is to say, fell into improper inclinations and habits; into injustice, guile, deceit, slander, and most shameful passions of the flesh; into drunkenness, avarice, pride, hatred, envy, and other abominable evils; and, contaminated by these blemishes, ceased to be able, at least by his own powers, to find sufficient means of propitiating God;?then it was that God, not willing to leave man in the extremity of despair and complete ruin, revealed to him a way of salvation, which we revere under the name of Divine Revelation. In Divine Revelation is contained what we ought to believe, what we ought to do, and what we ought to seek from God. And thus from Divine Revelation we learn the Gospel Faith, the Divine Law, and the Lord's Prayer. CHAPTER I. OF THE GOSPEL FAITH. JIAITH is the reception of the Gospel with the whole heart and soul. I. The doctrine of the Faith is contained in Holy Scripture. Holy Scripture is divided into the Old and New Testament. The Old Testament contains the Law, which prepared man for the perfect reception of the Gospel faith. The New Testament, revealing the fulfilment of the prophecies and types, announces to us the great lovingkindness of God, which He has vouchsafed to us in the death of Jesus Christ. And the Old Testament having been written by the Prophets, and the New by the Apostles, through the Holy Ghost, both the one and the other are together called Holy Scripture. II. The doctrine of the faith is concisely summed up in the Symbol of faith, which was compiled by the three hundred and eighteen holy Fathers of the first General Council, which was held at Nicsea in the year 325. This Symbol is divided into twelve articles, in the fol...