The New York herald., 1846-04-23

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sins bind earth shall be bound in Heaven &c" SO
apostles to ba exercised under peculiar circumsances
h none other than the power Of opening TO mankind the
there s the correlave authority Of prohibiting the
erng of man into Heaven. Now. my beloved brothren,
expressions like these are not used without authority
10 unintellgDle phrases, when he said the words
have just recited The authority then be exercised
and that in q peculiar manner because there is the
power of opening tho gates Of Heaven and Of refusing
to open them will give unto you the keys OF the
Kingdom Of Heaven &C. Heaven, consequently cannot
BY having the keys Of Heaven, we understand that the
apostle had the cont ro Of the gates Of Heaven In the
oideu time when man had the keys Of the gates OF city
he snvested with the supreme authority over that
city, and az the Divine Saviour committed the keys OF
Heaven to tho Apostles they invested with authority
over who are the subjects of Saviour; and as
Heaven is under their authority, II we can enter
Heaven hout them the expression that have quoted
is absurdityand contradiction. You will sll under
stand me- that II can enter your house without the
key it is useless for you to give nae the key This is
of imprisoning criminal; Of what is the Judges
power il the criminal avoid it. What then is his
ths keys of Heaven, and enter Heaven without
them. of what use il that power Our dissenting
brethsren say they cannot exercise tho power Uulsss
part of impostor in making of this expression,
he must have conferred upon them the authority which
they were bound to exercise and which they cannot
ercise unless With the obligation part to confess
sins. It clear then that if they did not make
known the state Of their conscionces end submit this
authority. it would lead them to the highway niquty
so then there must be an obligation imposed upon all to
submit to this authority, in order that they may be par
doned OF their sins and prepared to enter into the king
dom Of Heaven not. they must be excluded. Such
the view Of the Catholic world and had been,
by man. II may be objected whether the primitive
christians were convinced Of this and whether the apos
ties exercised He might answer the first by saying
there obligation his part to prove it, because
this would be an historical fact and yet may be dons
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the doctrine, and submitted to it. II they opened the
10Th chapter of the Acts Of the Apostles they would
dnd that the people to the apostles confessng their
sins, and burned their books worth $4,000 pieces of
silver. from which they had gathered the knowledge Of
the false doctrine. Here important fact which
showed that the primitive christians had confessed
their sins, and told the apostles the magical acts
s moS
could indulge in these practicesor in other words,
brought them good and bad booksfor appeared they
had bad books then in circulation, though not many
as at the present day They had then that the prmi
tive Christians confessng that they sinners
they had learned these practices of iniquty This
as satisfactory proof OF the original practice Of the doc
must confess his wha. may be tho species Of sin
whether may be violation Of duty which embraced
the domestic circle or the community at iarge-or
against magistrate other in authority but 1t
evident that the primitive Christians knew what this
doctrine was. and ney pracsed to such extent that
they called for tho most solemn Almighty
God 10 the extent Of 600 pieces of silver-and they
i came confessing their sins-and in order to make
site acts Of psnancs, viz Sontrition and and salts
1 faction. These facts made 1t selfevdent that the
primitive Christians understood this doctrine :
| There is another fact which may be read in
the NTH chapter of the Acts of the Aposles and is
act which declares the actice Of the primitive Apos.
ties. II is the of Annanas and 6apphira Annanias
approached the Apostle Peter and deposited before him
some Of tho money for tho sale OF piece Of land.
self before the Apostle and told him that that was the
money realized from the sale OF the land The Apostle
asked him Il tnat was al He answer. yes Here you
spred by the Almighty God asks the individual is this
all the money! and he replies, it is Immediately the
Ghost Thou hast lied unto man, but unto God
| and in minute the individual falls PROSTATE
corpse Three hours sfor that time, the VITO OF the
same individual comes TO ST. Paul, and the tale is
repeated The Apostle saws, how is II that you have
combined with each other TO deceive you have lcd 10
man aud to the lly Ghostn She Immediately tell a
corpse at the feet OF the Apostle Now, my beloved
friends, ask you to expound to mo that fact in the
holy scriptures this narrative Of what occurred in the
days of the Apostles. What you understand by il
Do you fancy that these individuals would have been
guilty Of lying 10 Godan not to manor rather would il
be lying God and not to We oil understand
IT, and will make the distinction at once There Is az
tho bench. The nan tells the iudse issshood but Se
told the fssshood TO the judge individual
ajudge. This was mere violation Of the truth. But
lot suppose that advancing before the tribunal and
that hc regardless Of his position, refuses
truth and tells fasehoods. You at the diff
Guilty Of the position Here he is guilty of perjury In
former he is guilty Of because he told
untruth but no did not psrjure himself In the case Of
sacrament, and the Almighty God toot vengeance upon
them could show you, moreover, that this doctrine
OF confession 10 most solemnly insisted upon by all the
qthers Of the ancient church. and strong and
clear in vndcating and claiming any catholic of the
present day. The objections that brought agai
may be ell certain ihat the catholic doctrine the
| true ore Now will merely ask you, my beloved
church could have entored into the church rauduently
or without the conviction at first that it was divine
institution that it was founded by Christ himself and
not by man ask you whether you can conceive that
practice so revolving could have been introduced
| by any authority except that of Almighty God We
know that before the period Of the reformation that in
two cities Of Germany such the Of crime
that the magistrates Of those cities waited upon the
al. Charles the Fifth listened 10 them and after hear
ing their declarations. with great simplicity replied tc
Do You believe the confessional is of divine
of divine origin, for by doing they would acknow
ledge themselves to be catholics. so they would moi
slider it Of divine origin, all the powers Of earth
could not impose the obligation" SO it is my friends
Where % the ,s human & power s that can force me % to
authority could induce me to do this 7 There ID
none. know that i stands a. dead letter in the
Episcopal Church but ! know at the same time
that there il considered obligation, and the reason
clear because there Z no authority. to bind remi,
sins out Of the Catholic Church Therefore, none but
the Catholic priest exercise the authority Yet
certain fact that the confessional existed at the time
is ss sd
il IL incumbent upon our dissenting brethren, to prove
the period at which IL instituted. How could such
doctrine be instituted Dy any but divine and
they deny it, it Ia for them to prove that Of human
institution We 6nd according to st. Augustine, that it
divine institution and practised from the day.
of the Apostles Hence them think that have satisfied
you that this doctrine IL of divine orginthst has
been transmitted from the Apostles this mc and has
no ether foundation but the Almighty God.
Sperting Intelligence.
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