A catechism on the holy catholick and apostolick Church

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Page 3 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 20 - Take away all hatred and prejudice, and whatsoever else may hinder us from godly Union and Concord: that, as there is but one Body, and one Spirit, and one Hope of our Calling, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of us all, so we may henceforth be all of one heart, and of one soul, united in one holy bond of Truth and Peace, of Faith and Charity, and may with one mind and one mouth glorify thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 6 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Page 9 - So also Christ glorified not Himself to be made an high priest; but He that said unto Him, Thou art My Son, to-day have I begotten Thee.
Page 12 - And therefore having a perfect foreknowledge of this, they appointed persons, as we have before said,* and then gave direction, how when they should die, other chosen and approved men should succeed in their ministry.
Page 8 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Page 19 - And therefore prayer being a work common to the church as well triumphant as militant, a work common unto men with angels, what should we think but that so much of our lives is celestial and divine as we spend in the exercise of prayer?
Page 6 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ : that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your aflairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 19 - Name may have their perfect consummation and bliss both in body and soul in His eternal and everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 5 - In which consideration, as the main body of the sea being one, yet within divers precincts hath divers names ; so the Catholic Church is in like sort divided into a number of distinct Societies, every of which is termed a Church within itself.

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