A treatise of the sacrament of the confirmation wherein is shewed the necessary spirituall profit, and excellencie of this sacrament. Composed by W.R.
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- A treatise of the sacrament of the confirmation wherein is shewed the necessary spirituall profit, and excellencie of this sacrament. Composed by W.R.
- Author
- Smith, Richard, 1566-1655.
- Publication
- Printed at Doway :: By Gerard Pinchon, at the signe of the Coleyn,
- 1629.
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- Confirmation -- Catholic church -- Early works to 1800.
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THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
GENTLE READER
I was induced to compose this short treatise of the Sacrament of Confirmatiō for two Causes: The one was to supplie the Bishop of Chalcedon his want of opportunitie suffi∣ciently
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to instruct those to whome hee ministreth this Sacrament; For the holy Councell of Trent com∣maunding Bishops, that at what times they administer this Sacrament, they should declare to the people the dig∣nitie and profits thereof, that thereby they may come more worthely to receiue it, and that hee hath seldome opportunitie to make any such sufficient declaration: I thought it fit to supplie the want of his Speech, by this my writing. The other was to instruct both those who had receiued this Sacrament
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how greate a benefite they had receiued; that thereby they may bee the more grate∣full vnto Almighty God, and more carefull not to re∣ceiue the grace of God in vaine, but to make vse there∣of to theire greater glorie and happines; and also to let those who haue not yet re∣ceiued, knowe, what obliga∣tion they haue to receiue it, and what a greate good they want, that thereby they may doe theire best to procure it. And because I write onely to Catholicks, I proue not that either it is a Sacrament, or that it giueth grace, or im∣printeth
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a spirituall Charac∣ter in our Soules; but suppo∣sing all these points (which the Catholicke faith teacheth vs) I onely attend to shewe the necessitie, spirituall pro∣fit, and excellencie of this Sacrament: and this I doe not so fully as perhaps the learned would expect, and the matter requireth, nor as perchance I could, If I had more leasure or more store of bookes, but so farre as may giue the learned occa∣sion to thinke of more, and so to profect this treatise, and as may suffice to the vn∣learned to knowe theire du∣tie
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towards this Sacrament, as by diuers good treatises in our English tounge, they learne theire dutie concer∣ning the Sacraments of Con∣fession and of the holy Altar: And I wish they had the like Treatises of all the other Sa∣craments, that thereby they might better knowe the boū∣tie of Allmightie God, the spi∣rituall riches and treasure of the Catholicke Church, and theire owne happines and fe∣licitie in beeing Catholicks; Farewell the 24. of Iune 1629.