The Wanderings of the Human Intellect: Or, A New Dictionary of the Various Sects Into which the Christian Religion, in Ancient and in Modern Times, Has Been Divided; with an Impartial Discussion of the Mertis of Their Respective Claims to Orthodoxy. To which is Prefixed, an Introductory Essay on Universal History, as Well Civil as Ecclesiastic, from the Much-admired Historical Discourse of the Learned Dr. Pluquet, in Front of His Valuable Dictionary of All Religions ... By the Rev. John Bell |
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... rule produced effects the most mischievous in their consequences . Certain christians affected to render the mysteries of our faith more credible by assimulating them with the ideas borrowed exclusively from rea- son . Religion suffered ...
... rule produced effects the most mischievous in their consequences . Certain christians affected to render the mysteries of our faith more credible by assimulating them with the ideas borrowed exclusively from rea- son . Religion suffered ...
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... rule of faith . Certain catholics , fearing it might be construed in favor of Eutychianism , rejected it . The clergy , the people , and the court , took part in this dispute . The em- peror declared himself against the monks : they ...
... rule of faith . Certain catholics , fearing it might be construed in favor of Eutychianism , rejected it . The clergy , the people , and the court , took part in this dispute . The em- peror declared himself against the monks : they ...
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... rules of perfect morality . Mahomet undertook to reduce christianity to these two points - with a view to reunite all the christians of Arabia in one common league against catholicity . He had all the necessary qualifica- tions for such ...
... rules of perfect morality . Mahomet undertook to reduce christianity to these two points - with a view to reunite all the christians of Arabia in one common league against catholicity . He had all the necessary qualifica- tions for such ...
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... council , and then caused an edict to be pub- lished in which Monothelitism , or the error which implies only one will in Christ , was made a rule of faith , and established by an imperial law . Thus did that prince forfeit the 50.
... council , and then caused an edict to be pub- lished in which Monothelitism , or the error which implies only one will in Christ , was made a rule of faith , and established by an imperial law . Thus did that prince forfeit the 50.
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... rule of faith . Like them he accused the catholics of idolatry , and of adoring the saints as so many divinities . His morals were austere ; and many among the ignorant were taught to consider this new - modelled sect as a society of ...
... rule of faith . Like them he accused the catholics of idolatry , and of adoring the saints as so many divinities . His morals were austere ; and many among the ignorant were taught to consider this new - modelled sect as a society of ...
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Page 238 - THEY also are to be had accursed, that presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature. For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 379 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 382 - Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptised, shall be saved ; but he that believeth not, shall be damned.
Page 378 - Going, therefore, teach ye all nations : baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world.
Page 177 - Christ ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
Page 177 - I profess, likewise, that in the mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead...
Page 176 - And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets. And I believe one Catholic and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen.
Page 176 - Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father.
Page 176 - God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
Page 176 - I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible...