The Enemies of Salvation: The Flesh, the World, and the Devil
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“Since the religious revolution of the sixteenth century, to no man has the Catholic Church in Scotland been so much indebted as to Bishop Hay. He is pre-eminently her bishop of the last three hundred years.”
- Bishop John Strain, Archbishop of the Metropolitan see of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, 1810–1883
Enemies of Salvation complements TAN's already vast catalog of timeless Catholic books that have been updated and now reprinted for your spiritual growth. Besides producing traditional Catholic content from living authors, TAN Books looks to the saints and spiritual masters of the past to guide us in the present and into the future to our true home, Heaven.
Authored by renowned Scottish Archbishop George Hay (1729–1811), this work, pulled from Bishop Hay's The Devout Christian, examines our three chief enemies—the flesh, the world, and the devil—and how they conspire together to threaten our salvation. In this succinct text, Bishop Hay provides a field map to knowing your enemies, and learning how to defeat them.
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The Enemies of Salvation - Bishop George Hay
A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF
BISHOP GEORGE HAY
Since the religious revolution of the sixteenth century, to no man has the Catholic Church in Scotland been so much indebted as to Bishop Hay. He is preeminently her bishop of the last three hundred years.
—Bishop John Strain, Archbishop of the Metropolitan see of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, 1810–1883
Bishop George Hay was born into a Protestant family in the year 1729 in Edinburgh. Hay lived during a difficult time in Scotland, and at the age of sixteen, he was forced to join the battle of Prestonpans. The summons to help injured soldiers disrupted his education at Edinburgh University, where he was forging a promising path towards a medical career. Swept up in the politics and fighting of the time, Hay accompanied Charles Edward Stuart’s army until he became ill and returned home. Hay, like his father before him, was punished for his support of the Stuarts and was taken into custody in London for twelve months. While information about how religious Hay was up to this point is scarce, he may have been largely influenced by his parent’s Episcopalian faith. Interestingly, it was during his time in custody that Hay was first introduced to the teachings of the Catholic faith by a man named Neighan. After serving time in London, he returned to Edinburgh, and the rest of Hay’s teenage years were spent learning about the Catholic faith. Hay studied works by Catholic thinkers, including a fellow convert named John Gother. Hay read Gother’s work entitled A Papist Misrepresented and Represented,
which outlined a number of misconceptions of Catholic doctrine and his responses to them. Undoubtedly, Hay learned a great deal just from studying on his own, but he soon received instruction from a Jesuit missionary named Father Seaton. As a result, Hay was able to receive his first Communion and enter fully into the Catholic faith at the age of twenty.
The systematic suppression of Catholicism in Scotland during Hay’s life was due to the Scottish Reformation that began just under two hundred years before he was born. The strict penal laws that now applied to Hay, a newly practicing Catholic, prohibited him from completing his medical degree. Instead, he boarded a vessel as a surgeon and traversed the Mediterranean Sea. On one of the ship’s stops, by divine providence, he met the vicar apostolic of the London District of the time, Bishop Richard Challoner. Through this friendship, Hay became convinced of his mission to become a priest. Hay found his way to Rome, where he studied for roughly eight years at Scots College. Hay was ordained in 1758 by Cardinal Spinelli, about nine years after his reception into the Church. Hay’s road to becoming a bishop was due in large part to his assistantship to Bishop Grant, who was located in the Enzie district in Banffshire. Not too long after Bishop Grant accepted Hay as his assistant, he took Bishop Smith’s place as Lowland vicar apostolic. In this new position, Bishop Grant was given permission to bring Hay along as his coadjutor. This secured Hay as Bishop Grant’s successor, and he was consecrated as coadjutor bishop on Trinity Sunday in the year 1769. Hay’s consecration was supposedly done in secret, with a limited attendance due to the penal laws. Shortly afterward, in the year 1778, he officially succeeded Bishop Grant as Lowland vicar apostolic. Thus began Bishop Hay’s challenging yet fruitful work of the vicariate during which time he strove tirelessly to unite the Church.
In the nearly thirty-five years Bishop Hay served as bishop of the Lowland District, he published written works, played a major role in Scotland’s eventual acceptance of Catholicism, and endeavored to reform seminaries. Bishop Hay is credited for publishing the first English Bible in Scotland, though he is better known for his original work centered on Catholic doctrine. Between 1781 and 1786, Bishop Hay published three successive works entitled The Sincere Christian, The Devout Christian (reprinted in part here), and The Pious Christian. Each of Hay’s works, meticulously grounded in Scripture and in Church teaching, reinforce the importance of recognizing the infallible authority of the Church and the necessary unification under the Catholic Church as the true source of salvation.