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Then , however , as now , the minds of speculative men were impatient of
ignorance , and loth to confess that the laws of truth and falsehood , which their
experience of this world furnished , could not at once be applied to measure 9
Greg .
Then , however , as now , the minds of speculative men were impatient of
ignorance , and loth to confess that the laws of truth and falsehood , which their
experience of this world furnished , could not at once be applied to measure 9
Greg .
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Situated in the centre of the accessible world , and on the extremity of
Christendom , in a city which was at once the chief mart of commerce , and a
celebrated seat of both Jewish and Greek philosophy , it was supplied in especial
abundance ...
Situated in the centre of the accessible world , and on the extremity of
Christendom , in a city which was at once the chief mart of commerce , and a
celebrated seat of both Jewish and Greek philosophy , it was supplied in especial
abundance ...
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heathen sages to shadow forth their unreal systems , he at the same time insists
upon the impossibility of man ' s arriving at this hidden treasure all at once , and
warns his brethren , instead of attempting to cross by a short path from the false to
...
heathen sages to shadow forth their unreal systems , he at the same time insists
upon the impossibility of man ' s arriving at this hidden treasure all at once , and
warns his brethren , instead of attempting to cross by a short path from the false to
...
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... the exact and fully developed doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation , and
still more , the doctrine of the Atonement , as once made upon the cross , and
commemorated and appropriated in the Eucharist , being the exclusive
possession ...
... the exact and fully developed doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation , and
still more , the doctrine of the Atonement , as once made upon the cross , and
commemorated and appropriated in the Eucharist , being the exclusive
possession ...
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But it is scarcely the attribute of a generous faith , to be anxiously inquiring into
the consequences of this or that system , with a view to decide its admissibility ,
instead of turning at once to the revealed word , and inquiring into the rule there ...
But it is scarcely the attribute of a generous faith , to be anxiously inquiring into
the consequences of this or that system , with a view to decide its admissibility ,
instead of turning at once to the revealed word , and inquiring into the rule there ...
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Page 162 - For the Father judgeth no man, But hath committed all judgment unto the Son : That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, Honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
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Page 168 - Origin ; forasmuch as the Son is from the Father, not the Father from the Son.
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| Title | The Arians of the Fourth Century, Issue 61 The Arians of the Fourth Century, John Henry Newman |
| Author | John Henry Newman |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Lumley, 1871 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 478 pages |
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