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...Then came old Balmerino, treading the air of a general. As soon as he mounted the scaffold, he read the inscription on his coffin . . . and pulling out his spectacles, read a treasonable speech. ... He said, if he had not taken the sacrament the day before, he would have knocked down Williamson, the Lieutenant of the Tower, for his ill usage of him. . . . Then he lay down; but being told he was on the wrong side, vaulted around, and immediately gave the sign of tossing up his arm, as if he were giving the signal for battle...
Made Roman by our Roman sacrament, We can know little (as we care little) Of the Metropolis: her candled churches, Her white-gowned pederastic senators...
...side of the "reformation"' tradition, Blake suggested that: ¶"The reunited Church must accept the principle of continuing reformation under the Word of God by the guidance of the Holy Spirit ... If the catholic must insist on taking the sacraments more seriously than some protestants have sometimes done, so protestants in the reunited Church must insist on catholics' fully accepting the reformation principle that God has revealed and can reveal Himself and His will more and more fully through the Holy Scriptures.'' ¶ The government of the new church must be democratic rather than hierarchical, recognizing...
...cornerstone of the Blake proposal is a blending of two important and divergent Christian traditions-the traditionalist catholic (not Catholic) churches, with their emphasis on sacrament and liturgy, and the Bible-centered reformation churches, with their emphasis on preaching and the "ministry of all believers." The idea is not as impossible as it sounds: Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists and Congregationalists united to form the Church of South India in 1947. Under way in North India and Ceylon are similar unions on which Blake modeled his own proposal. But among the vested interests and sentimental en trenchments of U.S. Protestantism, such...
...imagine no more insidious, obscene denial of man's essential best self and of the sacrament of love than this unutterable monstrosity masquerading as an act of faith...