A Concise View of the Succession of Sacred Literature: In a Chronological Arrangement of Authors and Their Works, from the Invention of Alphabetical Characters, to the Year of Our Lord 1445, Volume 2 |
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... importance ; the 262nd is also an instance of the same judicious decision . On the Christian Doctrine . - This treatise , in four books , has been considered as serving for a proper preface to St. Augustine's Commentaries on Scripture ...
... importance ; the 262nd is also an instance of the same judicious decision . On the Christian Doctrine . - This treatise , in four books , has been considered as serving for a proper preface to St. Augustine's Commentaries on Scripture ...
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... important work . Commentary on Job . - Very short notes written by St. Augustine on the margin of a copy of this book , and published by another without the Author's knowledge ; they are little more than a very condensed Paraphrase ...
... important work . Commentary on Job . - Very short notes written by St. Augustine on the margin of a copy of this book , and published by another without the Author's knowledge ; they are little more than a very condensed Paraphrase ...
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... importance of its origin . - VII . - The parts of the system are ridicu- lous portions of an absurd whole , the individual Gods are as useless as the assembled Conclave , and every thing must necessarily be referred to the One True ...
... importance of its origin . - VII . - The parts of the system are ridicu- lous portions of an absurd whole , the individual Gods are as useless as the assembled Conclave , and every thing must necessarily be referred to the One True ...
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... importance ; since the evil of our nature inherited from Adam was the grand inducing cause of the incarnation of our Lord , through whom alone the Saints of past , present , and future time , have been , are , and shall be justified ...
... importance ; since the evil of our nature inherited from Adam was the grand inducing cause of the incarnation of our Lord , through whom alone the Saints of past , present , and future time , have been , are , and shall be justified ...
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... important of offices , consists of six books , in the form of a dialogue between Chrysostom and Basil , Bishop of Raphanea , near Antioch in Syria . The first book is little else than a Preface and Introduction to the other five ...
... important of offices , consists of six books , in the form of a dialogue between Chrysostom and Basil , Bishop of Raphanea , near Antioch in Syria . The first book is little else than a Preface and Introduction to the other five ...
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Page 359 - I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran : I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Page 91 - For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Page 472 - Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Page 381 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 7 - On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Page 503 - Preserver, she will at length look forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners.
Page 394 - God, we must put off the old man with his deeds, and put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him; Col.
Page 64 - It is plain madness to despise so great a power, without which we cannot obtain salvation, or the good things that are promised us. For if no one can enter into the kingdom of heaven, except he be born of water and the Holy Ghost ; and he that eateth not the flesh of the Lord, and drinketh not his blood, is deprived of eternal life ; and all these things are performed by no other...
Page 286 - Phi'e, emprinted in the exempt monastery of Tavestock in Denshyre, by me Dan Thomas Richard Monke of the sayd monastery. To the instant desyer of the ryght worshypful esquyer Mayster Robert Langdon. Anno d. MD XXV. Deo Gracias f.' " Robert Langdon, LL.D., was nephew to Bishop Langdon, a great patron of literature, and I suppose had imbibed something of his uncle's spirit.
Page 273 - It was begun about the end of the fifth, or the beginning of the sixth century...