The Seven Gates of Heaven (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Seven Gates of Heaven The children of Adam are born in a state of wounded nature, for the grace of God which made our first parents perfect, and which would have been transmitted to us, was lost by their sin in the Garden of Paradise. The sacraments pour that grace again into our souls. They are so many channels through which we draw the waters of life from the fountains of the crucified Saviour. They are the means and the instruments God uses in saving the members of the human race. Each sacrament produces its own peculiar effect in the soul, raising the receiver to a higher spiritual state, and drawing him nearer to God. During Christ´s life upon this earth he instituted these sacraments, as so many holy ordinances of salvation, by which his redemption is applied to each member of the Christian Church. Christ, then, is the only Redeemer, and he made these sacraments, and appointed these holy rites, as the seven golden gates of heaven, through which each must pass to that abode of endless bliss. From the very days of the Apostles these seven sacraments were believed and received by the whole people and clergy. Afterwards political disturbances, wars, local discords, the pride and ambition of designing men, tore asunder and divided the one holy Church of Christ, into different sects, creeds. Churches. When the Catholic Church, the Bride of the Lamb, was thus rent asunder, those religious denominations which came forth from her - the Mother of all Churches - those sects and religious denominations of the East and of the West, both Orientals and Protestants, still clung to these sacraments, or kept the form, at least, of these holy ordinances. Thus baptism is still found among all Christians; confirmation is seen in every Church of the East, and its shadow among the Episcopalians. The Eucharist is devoutly received in the East, and its figure and type is the Communion services of the Protestant Churches. All have either penance or some kind of repentance for sin. They anoint the sick or pray at the bedside of the dying. By the imposition of hands the clergy of every Christian Church is ordained. 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.
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