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	A Brief Declaration of the Sacraments / by William Tyndale
		For the sacrament doth much more vehemently print lively the faith, and make it sink down into the heart, than do bare words only: as a man is more sure of that he heareth, seeth, feeleth, smelleth and tasteth, than that he heareth only.
		Of this ye may perceive again what the sacrament meaneth, and what the intent of the ordinance was, and how such ceremonies came up, and whence they had their beginning, and what the fruit thereof is, and what is therein to be sought.
		And even so say they that the doctors called the sacrament the body and blood of Christ after the same manner only; because it is the memorial, the earnest, and seal of his body and blood, as the use of the scriptures is to call signs by the names of things signified thereby.
	www.williamtyndale.com /0sacraments.htm (6401 words)

	Our Catholic Faith - Sacrament Of Anointing The Sick
		In the Eastern Orthodox (schismatical) Church this sacrament is normally administered by a number of priests (seven, five, three; but in case of necessity even one is enough); and it is the priests themselves who bless the oil on each occasion before use.
		In previous ages the sacrament was known by a variety of names, e.g., the holy oil, or unction, of the sick; the unction or blessing of consecrated oil; the unction of God; the office of the unction; etc. In the Eastern Church the later technical name is euchelaion (i.e.
		Again, it was one of the three sacraments (the others being confirmation and matrimony) which Wycliffites and Hussites were under suspicion of contemning, and about which they were to be specially interrogated at the Council of Constance by order of Martin V (Bull "Inter cunctas", 22 Feb., 1418.--Denzinger, op.
	www.ourcatholicfaith.org /sacraments/anointingthesick.html (9024 words)

	The Defense of the Augsburg Confession -- Number/Use of Sacraments
		The Defense of the Augsburg Confession -- Number/Use of Sacraments
		Wherefore, if any one should wish to call it a sacrament, he ought still to distinguish it from those preceding ones [the two former ones], which are properly signs of the New Testament, and testimonies of grace and the remission of sins.
		Because this is a Sacrament of the New Testament, as Christ clearly says, he ought for this very reason to be confident that what is promised in the New Testament, namely, the free remission of sins, is offered him.
	www.bookofconcord.org /augsburgdefense/12_sacraments.html (1483 words)

	CONTENDER MINISTRIES MAIL BAG
		Yet the other sacraments, and the importance the RCC places on all of them, goes beyond the scope of Scripture, and actually diminishes the clear, biblical doctrine that we are all saved, sanctified, and justified by faith in the redeeming sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
		I also reject your contention that the seven sacraments "are required for a rounded and Spirit-Filled life." I have been baptized, and practice communion, as these "sacraments" are biblically grounded.
		What matters is that you realize that the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church are, by their own doctrines, essential in the work of salvation, and that doctrine is unbiblical.
	www.contenderministries.org /mail/02222004sacraments.php (1830 words)

	Sacraments
		For Calvin, a sacrament is a "seal," a sign that God uses to validate his covenant; in the case of Christian sacraments, the New Covenant of grace in Christ.
		The Council declared that all seven sacraments were instituted and sanctified by Christ, handed down by the apostles, and convey grace by His power.
		Probably the sacrament that excited the most interest, indeed ferocious controversy, in the period was the Eucharist (or as many Protestants preferred to call it, the Lord's Supper), the center of Christian worship.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /hdieterich/Sacraments.htm (7901 words)

	Holy Matrimony by Pauline Zingleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The name sacrament cannot be cited as satisfactory evidence, since it did not acquire until a late period the exclusively technical meaning it has today; both in pre‑Christian times and in the first centuries of the Christian Era it had a much broader and more indefinite signification.
		To repeat, a sacrament is a visible sign, permanently instituted by Christ, for the purpose of producing sanctifying grace in the soul.
		Since the sacraments are the signs of sacred things insofar as by these sacred things men are sanctified, and since the external rite cannot of itself give grace, it is evident that all sacraments properly so called must originate in divine appointment.
	www.cathinsight.com /apologetics/matrimony.htm (11187 words)

	Religious Changes Under Henry VIII and Edward VI
		At last the other four Sacraments were "found again," and a settlement agreeable to both parties arrived at and embodied in a treatise known as The Institution of a Christian Man. It consisted of four parts, the Apostle's Creed, the Seven Sacraments, the Ten Commandments, and the Our Father and Hail Mary.
		The fortresses along the coast and on the Scottish borders were strengthened, and replenished; the fleet was held in readiness in the Thames; and a volunteer army trained and equipped was raised to contest the progress of the invaders or at least to defend the capital.
		Once indeed the Emperor felt it necessary to intervene in defense of his kinswoman, and to warn the council that if any attempt were made to prevent her from worshipping as she pleased, he would feel it necessary to recall his ambassador and to declare war (1551).
	www.worldspirituality.org /henryviii.html (19103 words)

	Part Two: Channels of Grace - Confirmation
		And always the understanding was that Confirmation was a sacrament distinct from Baptism; that it consisted in the imposition of hands by the apostles and their successors; that the effect of the outward rite was a special communication of the Holy Spirit, the divine source of interior sanctification.
		This defense of Catholic truth should always, of course, be done with prudence and charity.
		The Church’s general law is that “the sacrament of Confirmation is to be conferred at about the age of discretion.” The conference of bishops may determine another age.
	www.therealpresence.org /essentials/sacraments/acc35.htm (1941 words)

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		Luther's studies of St. Paul led him to conclude that one's faith, not the sacraments, were the key to God's grace, and that made him feel much better.
		In these writings he proclaimed his famous doctrines of justification by faith, the priesthood of all believers, and his reduction of the number of sacraments from seven to two.
		Nowhere was the political aspect of the Reformation more apparent than in England, where the king who wrote a pamphlet against Martin Luther in defense of the seven sacraments was the same king who ended up taking control of the church away from the Pope and abolishing the monasteries.
	www.wright.edu /~christopher.oldstone-moore/reformessay.htm (2395 words)

	International Catholic University: 9.5
		In Rome, already having terrible problems with the Lutheran Reformation in Germany, the last thing the pope at the time wanted was a quarrel with the king of England, who had been really a kind of a paragon, at least in terms of support of traditional doctrine.
		The Sacrifice of the Mass was maintained, celibacy of the clergy, auricular confession, the seven sacraments, all those things which Luther did away with were maintained by the new head of the Church, the king.
		And so it is that between 1547 and 1553 their genuinely Lutheran views of justification, revelation, the sacraments, and original sin came to be the official ones taught by the monarchy.
	home.comcast.net /~icuweb/c00905.htm (5812 words)

	SSPXAsia.com: Marriage
		It follows that to the Church alone, the guardian of everything that refers to the Sacraments, belongs every right and power to determine the validity of this contract which was elevated to the high dignity of a Sacrament; and in consequence, it belongs to the Church alone to judge the validity or invalidity of marriages.
		The reason is that this doctrine is founded on a dogmatic error which has been condemned several times by the Church, that is, the reduction of the Sacrament to an extrinsic ceremony and to the condition of a simple rite.
		God's omnipotent grace, an essential fruit of the Sacrament, will constantly be with these souls, to sustain them in the moments of weakness, to sweeten their sacrifice, to comfort and console them even in the hardest and longest trials.
	www.sspxasia.com /Documents/Sacraments/Marriage-divorce-teachings.htm (7281 words)

	New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		But it joined issue with the prevailing soteriology, that is, the application of the doctrines relating to Christianity, especially the justification of the sinner before God, the character of faith, good works, the rights of conscience, the rule of faith, and the meaning and number of the sacraments.
		It brought the believer into direct relation and union with Christ as the one and all-sufficient source of salvation, and set aside the doctrines of sacerdotal and saintly mediation and intercession.
		Finally the seven northern provinces formed a federal republic, first under the leadership of William of Orange, and, after his assassination (1584), under his son Maurice, and after a long and heroic struggle accomplished their severance from the Church of Rome and the Spanish crown.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc09.reformation.html (5964 words)

	Domestic-Church.Com: Sacramental
		Meditations, and information about the seven sacraments along with advice and information about preparing children for participation in the sacraments.
		In Defense of the Sacrament of Confession by Father John Lacey
		The Sacrament of Marriage by Father John Lacey.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/pages.dir/sacraments.htm (582 words)

	Catholic RCIA Treasures: Jesus & His Catholic Church,Seven Sacraments, Catholic Books, The Parables of Jesus, ...
		Just as today some people see compassion for the criminal as a betrayal of the victim, so the Pharisees saw Jesus’ compassion for the sinner as a betrayal of the virtuous.
		Jesus defense was very strait forward, he said he went where the need was greatest.
		In associating with sinners he was not condoning their situation, rather, he was trying to show them a new life.
	www.catholic-rcia.com /pages/cHomily.html (692 words)

	St. Thomas More
		Within a short time, therefore, he married Alice Middleton, a widow seven years his senior, a practical and kindly woman.
		In the bill of attainder drawn up against her were included, as sharers in her guilt, the saintly bishop of Rochester, John Fisher, and Thomas More.
		Fisher had been impressed by the nun's revelations, and More had seen and spoken to her, and at first given some countenance to her claims, though he ended by calling her a "false, deceiving hypocrite." The Lords expressed a wish to hear More for themselves in his defense.
	www.marys-touch.com /Saints/more.htm (3607 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: King Henry VIII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		With the aid of Cardinal Wolsey he made England a European power, strengthened his position at home, and remained on excellent terms with Rome.
		His work against Luther, in defense of the Seven Sacraments, the Mass, and papal supremacy, won for him the title "Defender of the Faith," conferred by Pope Leo X. His life, however, had not been stainless ; he had immoral relations with Elizabeth Blount and Mary Boleyn.
		About 1521 he conceived a violent passion for Mary's sister, Anne, and having only a daughter (later Queen Mary) by Catherine, he endeavored to procure a divorce on the grounds of nullity.
	www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/ncd03879.htm (352 words)

	Vatican Library
		The student may be frustrated, as I was, by the image of Henry VIII’s Defense of the Seven Sacraments against Martin Luther.
		The exhibit notes point out that while Henry may not have written the Defense himself, “[h]e did add, in his own hand, the couplet seen here, in which he presents the book to Pope Leo X.” This couplet, however, is not fully legible, and no transcription is provided.
		Since exhibit notes tell us that “the manuscript was shown to famous visitors to the Vatican Library as early as the 16th century,” it would be interesting to know exactly what the redoubtable Henry wrote.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/r/236/whm.html (691 words)

	Sacraments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These sacred oaths, the sacraments, are the means by which God binds human beings to the divine family.
		Martin Lucia, founder of the Missionaries of The Blessed Sacrament, speaks on the role of the Sacraments in the Domestic Church.
		Today, when faith in the Living Presence of Christ in the Eucharist is threatened, and apathy towards the Church and her Sacraments threatens the spiritual life of the Family of God, documentaries such as this offer us strengthening of faith and inspiration.
	www.icon.co.za /~host/metanoia/Sacraments.htm (3632 words)

	Sacraments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Both the sacrament of Matrimony and virginity for the Kingdom of God come from the Lord himself.
		The Lord addresses an invitation to us, urging us to receive him in the sacrament of the Eucharist: "Truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you" [Jn 6:53] (CCC1384).
		The Church asks the Father to send his Holy Spirit (or the power of his blessing on the bread and wine, so that by his power they may become the body and blood of Jesus Christ and so that those who take part in the Eucharist may be one body and one spirit (CCC1353).
	home.comcast.net /~carlos5100/sacraments.htm (13420 words)

	New Film, The Fire Baptism and the Lost Sacraments.
		Open then your ears, inhale the good savour of eternal life which has been breathed upon you by the grace of the sacraments; which was signified to you by us, when celebrating the Mystery of the Opening, we say, "Be Opened".
		The Saviour answered and said; "Remit ye his sin not only seven times, but Amen I say unto you, remit ye it unto many times seven times, and each time give ye him the mysteries from the beginning, so that he may inherit the Kingdom of Light.
		The Canadian "Church of the Universe" is among the churches that believe that cannabis is a sacrament.
	www.freeanointing.org /fire_baptism_and_the_lost_sacraments.htm (8216 words)

	Christian Faith : The Beatitudes \| Chastity \| The Creed \| The Decalogue of Assisi for Peace \| The Forgiveness of Sins \| ...
		“Christ instituted the sacrament of Penance for all sinful members of his Church: above all for those who, since Baptism, have fallen into grave sin, and have thus lost their baptismal grace and wounded ecclesial communion.
		Anyone who is aware of having committed a mortal sin must not receive Holy Communion, even if he experiences deep contrition, without having first received sacramental absolution, unless he has a grave reason for receiving Communion and there is no possibility of going to confession.
		It disposes one even to renounce and sacrifice his life in defense of a just cause.
	www.shrinesf.org /faith.htm (5475 words)

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		In 1521, just four years after posting his famous "Ninety-five theses" on a church door in Wittenburg, and the same month he was excommunicated, Martin Luther published a controversial work called The Babylonian Captivity of the Church.
		At the height of his political career, with five children to educate and guide, and a wife and a household to care for, Thomas More became England’s most prominent defender of the faith.
		More’s defense of papal primacy was used as evidence that he denied Henry’s supremacy (which of course he had to).
	www.familylifecenter.net /article.asp?artId=13 (1299 words)

	CMSA: The Seven Sacraments
		Of the seven sacraments, Reconciliation, Holy Eucharist, Matrimony and the Anointing of the Sick may be received more than once.
		A strong defense against the snares of my enemies, visible and invisible; The perfect quieting of all my evil impulses both fleshly and spiritual; a firm cleaving unto You, the one true God; and a pledge of happy consummation.
		And I pray You that You would vouchsafe to bring me a sinner to the ineffable banquet, where You with Your Son and Your Holy Spirit, are to Your saints true light, fullness of content, eternal joy, gladness without alloy, and perfect bless.
	www.cathmsa.org /Sacraments.html (674 words)

	The causes of the English reformation
		In 1521, Henry VIII published Assertio septem sacramentorum (Defense of the seven sacraments).
		The Bishops Book (1538) included seven sacraments (like the Catholic Church) but failed to endorse transubstantiation (an important Catholic doctrine).
		The Injunctions of 1538 not only urged priest to educate their flocks and to keep efficient parish registers, but also commanded the destruction of "superstitious" images.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/361/361-08.htm (1509 words)

	VATICANSPY's Home Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Church has always taught, that when the Sacrament of Matrimony has been consummated, the two become one flesh.
		Martin Luther was then excommunicated by Pope Leo X. On December 1, King Henry VIII of England was named DEFENDER of the FAITH, a title he coveted, for his defense of the Seven Sacraments against Luther.
		On December 4, forty students, amid derisive cheers, entered the Franciscan Monastery and demolished Altars; the windows of the house of the resident Canons were smashed, and it was threatened with pillage.
	members.aol.com /VATICANSPY/index3.html (1141 words)

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		Henry, before taking the throne wrote In Defense of the Seven Sacraments, a rebuttal of Luther’s theses, for which the Pope named him “Defender of Faith”.
		Even after the separation by the Act of Supremacy, Henry maintained the Catholic doctrine and ritual. Unlike Luther’s reformation, which allied itself with the ambient political structures, the Anglican reformation fused the church and the state under a single head.
		Although its martial aesthetic emphasizes the government’s role in providing for the common defense, the curriculum of West Point was similar to a French polytechnic school.
	www.coe.tamu.edu /~lburlbaw/edci658/mSaberian.doc (3854 words)

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