Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Ministerial Commission The sense of the Church expressed in herthirty-nine Articles, on the subject of the Church and ministry. 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.

Excerpt from The Commission and Consequent Duties of the Clergy: In a Series of Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, in April, 1826 What from the loose writing of some of the Clergy, and the general silence of the body, upon the constitution of the Christian Church, the subject 18 so grown out of knowledge, as to have lost almost universally its influence upon the mind. Ask an ignorant man, why he separates from the Church, his answer will probably be, that he lives in a land of liberty, where he has a right to worship God in the way he thinks proper. Ask a man of reading and understanding, and he will quote respectable authority for the same opinion; whereas, both one and the other might, it is probable, have continued members of the Church, had they been taught to form a correct notion of it. But when they have been led to consider the Church, as a word of general and indiscriminate application, and religion itself as a subject of mere private opinion, independent of all authority, it is not to be expected that they should feel disposed to restrain a licence, of which, from the latitudinarian way of thinking and acting in which they have been educated, they conceive themselves boin in rightful possession. 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.

St. John Henry Newman was an influential churchman and man of letters, who led the Oxford movement and later became a cardinal deacon in the Roman Catholic Church. His eloquent prose style helped revive emphasis on the dogmatic authority of the church and urged reforms of the Church of England after the pattern of the original Catholic Church. A prolific author of many genres, Newman’s major works include the celebrated ‘Tracts for the Times’, his autobiography ‘Apologia pro vita sua’, religious novels and the poem ‘The Dream of Gerontius’, which was set to music by Edward Elgar. This eBook presents Newman’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Newman’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare essays and religious tracts * Includes Newman’s rare poetry – available in no other collection * Both the first and revised edition texts of ‘Apologia pro vita sua’ * Special criticism section, with seven essays evaluating Newman’s work * Features two biographies – discover Newman’s religious life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novels Loss and Gain (1848) Callista (1855) The Non-Fiction The Arians of the Fourth Century (1833) Tracts for the Times (1833-1841) Contributions to ‘British Critic’ (1836-1842) On the Prophetical Office of the Church: Via Media, Volume 1 (1837) Lectures on Justification (1838) Parochial and Plain Sermons (1834-1843) Select Treatises of Saint Athanasius (1842) Historical Tracts of Saint Athanasius (1843) Lives of the English Saints (1844) Essays on Miracles (1843) Oxford University Sermons (1843) Sermons on Subjects of the Day (1843) Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845) Retractation of Anti-Catholic Statements (1845) Faith and Prejudice and Other Unpublished Sermons (1848-1873) Discourses to Mixed Congregations (1849) Difficulties of Anglicans (1850) The Present Position of Catholics in England (1851) The Idea of a University (1852) Cathedra Sempiterna (1852) On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Christian Doctrine (1859) Letter to Dr. Pusey (1865) An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870) Essays Critical and Historical (1871) Historical Sketches (1872) Sermons Preached on Various Occasions (1874) Letter to the Duke of Norfolk (1875) Five Letters (1875) Sermon Notes (1878) Via Media, Volume 2 (1883) On the Inspiration of Scripture (1884) Development of Religious Error (1885) The Poetry St. Bartholomew’s Eve (1821) Memorials of the Past (1832) Verses on Various Occasions (1867) The Criticism What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean? (1864) by Charles Kingsley Cardinal Newman (1892) by Augustine Birrell Cardinal Newman as a Musician (1892) by Edward Bellasis Essays from ‘Occasional Papers’ (1897) by R. W. Church Newman as a Prose-Writer (1899) by Lewis E. Gates Cardinal Newman (1912) by William Ralph Inge The True Nature of Newman’s Genius (1914) by Wilfrid Ward The Autobiography Apologia pro vita sua: First Edition Text (1864) Apologia pro vita sua: Revised Text (1890) The Biographies John Henry Newman (1900) by William Samuel Lilly John Henry Newman (1913) by William Barry