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Excerpt from The Doctrine of Confirmation: Considered in Relation to Holy Baptism as a Sacramental Ordinance of the Catholic Church; With a Preliminary Historical Survey of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
The second point to be considered is whether the new doctrine of the writer of the Article in the Church Quarterly, and of the modern Anglican authorities which he quotes, is of sufficient weight to cause its universal acceptance in place of the received teaching of the Catholic Church. It is not too much to say, that the reception of a doctrine so novel, and so seriously at variance with the usual interpretation of our Anglican formularies, requires of us a belief in the con structive and formative powers of a few nine teenth-century writers on theology which is hardly warranted by facts. It would be strange if the Catholic doctrine of Confirmation had lain dor mant and undeveloped for nearly nineteen cen turies, and that it had been reserved to these writers to unfold it for the first time to an ex pectant Catholic Christendom. This aspect of the question has very important issues.
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