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_005195478	Northcote, J. Spencer (James Spencer), 1821-1907.	The fourfold difficulty of Anglicanism, or, The Church of England tested by the Nicene Creed in a series of letters	1891		.txt	text/plain	39176	1151	56	And further, as the Greek and Roman Churches both taught error, and were therefore uncatholic, it follows that from the close of the primitive period (whenever that was) until the birth of the present English Church, there was no Catholic Church whatever. It is, I suppose, in practical love to man, that is, in the various branches of Christian alms-giving, that you would be most disposed to claim equality with the Roman Church; but, on this point, without pursuing the com- parison between individuals, or insisting on that peculiar character, which, as I think, distinguishes the philan- thropy of the Catholic Saint from that of other men, just in the same indescribable way that heroism is distinguish- ed from ordinary valour,—it is sufficient to take a more general view, and to look at the numbers, both of men and women, whom the Catholic Church presents to us, not singly, but grouped as it were in masses, each under the shade of some holy institute, wholly consecrated by vow, and for life, to works of mercy.	cache/_005195478.txt	txt/_005195478.txt