[Phases of Faith by Francis William Newman]@TWC D-Link bookPhases of Faith CHAPTER VIII 25/25
This very passage might show the contrary, if he had but quoted the whole paragraph, instead of the middle sentence only. See also pp.
67, 74, 75, 86, 87, 125.] [Footnote 3: Any orthodox periodical which dares to write charitably, is at once subjected to fierce attack us _un_orthodox.] [Footnote 4: _Explicit_ Faith in a doctrine, means, that we understand what the propositions are, and accept them.
But if through blunder we accept a wrong set of propositions, so as to believe a false doctrine, we nevertheless have _Implicit_ (or Virtual) Faith in the true one, if only we say from the heart: "Whatever the Church believes, I believe." Thus a person, who, through blundering, believes in Sabellianism or Arianism, which the Church has condemned, is regarded to have _virtual faith_ in Trinitarianism, and all the "merit" of that faith, because of his good will to submit to the Church; which is the really saving virtue.] [Footnote 5: [Greek: Dikaiosune] (righteousness), [Greek: Diatheke] (covenant, testament), [Greek: Charis] (grace), are all terms pregnant with fallacy.] [Footnote 6: Horace and Cicero speak the mind of their educated contemporaries in saying that "we ought to pray to God _only_ for external blessings, but trust to our own efforts for a pure and tranquil soul,"-- a singular reversing of spiritual religion].
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