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... Moreover the statements of a particular father or doctor may certainly be of a most important character ; but one divine is not equal to a Catena . We must have a whole doctrine stated by a whole Church . The Catholic Truth in question ...
... Moreover the statements of a particular father or doctor may certainly be of a most important character ; but one divine is not equal to a Catena . We must have a whole doctrine stated by a whole Church . The Catholic Truth in question ...
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... Moreover , it may be questioned whether any Ante- 8 " The authors who make the generation temporary , and speak not ex- pressly of any other , are these following : Justin , Athenagoras , Theophilus , Tatian , Tertullian , and ...
... Moreover , it may be questioned whether any Ante- 8 " The authors who make the generation temporary , and speak not ex- pressly of any other , are these following : Justin , Athenagoras , Theophilus , Tatian , Tertullian , and ...
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... moreover , how much direct and literal testimony the Ante - nicene Fathers give , one by one , to the divinity of the Holy Spirit ? This alone shall be observed , that St. Basil , in the fourth century , finding that , if he distinctly ...
... moreover , how much direct and literal testimony the Ante - nicene Fathers give , one by one , to the divinity of the Holy Spirit ? This alone shall be observed , that St. Basil , in the fourth century , finding that , if he distinctly ...
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... Moreover , if the resistance of St. Cyprian and Firmilian to the Church of Rome , in the question of baptism by heretics , be urged as an argument against her primitive authority , or the earlier resistance of Polycrates of Ephesus ...
... Moreover , if the resistance of St. Cyprian and Firmilian to the Church of Rome , in the question of baptism by heretics , be urged as an argument against her primitive authority , or the earlier resistance of Polycrates of Ephesus ...
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... Moreover , an idea not only modifies , but is modified , or at least influenced , by the state of things in which it is carried out , and is dependent in various ways on the cir- cumstances which surround it . Its development proceeds ...
... Moreover , an idea not only modifies , but is modified , or at least influenced , by the state of things in which it is carried out , and is dependent in various ways on the cir- cumstances which surround it . Its development proceeds ...
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Page 357 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 419 - Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like ? They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced : we have mourned unto you, and ye have not wept.
Page 369 - And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul; So that from his body were brought unto the sick, handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Page 73 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
Page 69 - And they shall hearken to thy voice; and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, "The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us; and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may 6 chapter 3: 12 sacrifice to the Lord our God.
Page 72 - And as, it is owned, the whole scheme of Scripture is not yet understood, so, if it ever comes to be understood, before the restitution of all things,* and without miraculous interpositions, it must be in the same way as natural knowledge is come at, by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world.
Page 327 - I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it ; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end.
Page 422 - Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt...
Page 69 - And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold, a feast unto the LORD.
Page 261 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence : there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.