The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"458 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.not the Priests of the New Law practise continualthe sacrifice of the Immacchastity, who offer dailyulate Lamb?If David and his friends were not permitted toeat the bread of Proposition till he had avowed thatfor the three preceding days they had refrainedfrom women, 1 how pure in body and soul shouldbe the Priest who daily partakes of that livingBread of which the bread of Proposition was butthe type ;and if the people at Mount Sinai wereforbidden to come near their wives for three days;before receiving the Law, 2should not they abstainaltogether whose office it is to preachall times ?the Law atThorndyke, an eminent Protestant divine, in hiawork entitled, Just Weights and Measures, makes thtifollowing observation The reason for :single Ufafor the clergy is firmly grounded, by the Fathers andcanons of the Church, upon the precept of St. Paul,forbidding man and wife to depart unless for a time,to attend unto prayer (1 Cor. vii. 5). For, priestsand deacons being continually to attend upon occasions of celebrating the Eucharist, which ought continually to be frequented ; if others be to abstainfrom the use of marriage for a time, then theyalways."*2d. Writers frequently discuss the secret cause ofthe marvelous success which marks the growth ofthe Catholic Church everywhere, in spite of the mostformidable opposition. Some ascribe this progress1T Ku>e TTL *Exod. rix.8Pagp 239