An Outline of the Catholic Truth. With meditations thereon
An Outline of the Catholic Truth. With meditations thereon
CONTENTS. I. THE BEING OF A GOD. 1. There is a God 1 2. The Existence of God known both by Nature and Faith 3 3. The Unity of God 3 II. THE BLESSED TRINITY. 1. The Mystery, of the Blessed Trinity 7 2. The Trinity 8 3. The Three Divine Persons 8 4. The Father 8 5. The Son 8 6. The Holy Ghost 9 7. The Godhead Equal 9 8. The Operations of the Godhead 10 III. THE VISIBLE CREATION. 1. Creation the work of the Trinity 16 2. Man recognises the Creator in Creation 17 3. God the Creator of all things 17 4. Creation the Act of the Divine Will 17 5. Why diversity in Creation 18 6. God created Heaven and Earth 18 IV. MAN. 1. Condition of Man when created 25 2. Man's Free-will 25 3. Man's Fall 25 V. THE INCARNATION. 1. Effect of the Fall 32 2. Man's Inability to make Reparation 33 3. God-Incarnate 33 4. God-Man, the Perfect Mediator 33 5. Man taken up with God into Heaven 34 VI. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 1. The work of the Incarnation carried on by the Church 42 2. The Instrumentality by which God the Holy Ghost carries on the work of the Incarnation 43 3. The Sacraments the Extension of the Incarnation 43 4. Sacraments the Channels of Divine Grace 44 5. Baptism 44 6. Confirmation 44 7. The Blessed Eucharist 44 8. Penance 44 9. Unction of the Sick 44 10. Holy Orders 45 11. Marriage 45 12. The Perpetuity of Divine Grace 45 VII. THE DEPARTED. 1. Supernatural Life 58 2. State fixed by Death 58 3. Growth and Decay of the Soul 58 4. The Soul conscious of things of earth 59 5. Prayers of the Faithful Departed 60 6 . Efficacy of Prayers of and for the Departed 60 7. Prayers of the Lost unheard 60 VIII. THE JUDGMENT. x. The World purified by Fire 67 2. The Advent 68 3. The Judge 68 4. The Witnesses 5. The Scrutiny IX. THE FINAL DECISION. 1. The Sentence Irreversible 76 2. The Separation Eternal 76 3. Condemnation Eternal 76 4. Bliss Eternal 76 APPENDIX. Texts of Holy Scripture 81 Digitized by Google.
