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... first Centuries . All The fourth Century opens with a perfecu- tion more systematically planned , and more artfully conducted , than thofe which Chrif- tians had ever known . Indeed Victory at first fhewed itself in favour of the ...
... first Centuries . All The fourth Century opens with a perfecu- tion more systematically planned , and more artfully conducted , than thofe which Chrif- tians had ever known . Indeed Victory at first fhewed itself in favour of the ...
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... first be caft into bonds , and afterwards be compelled by every method to facrifice . Thefe meafures of the court increafing gradually in afperity and horror fhew , that it was not without reluctance , A 2 that Chriftian world at once ...
... first be caft into bonds , and afterwards be compelled by every method to facrifice . Thefe meafures of the court increafing gradually in afperity and horror fhew , that it was not without reluctance , A 2 that Chriftian world at once ...
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... hereafter . Procopius was the first of thefe martyrs , who being brought before the tribu- nal , and ordered to facrifice to the Gods , declared e that that he knew only one God , to whom we CENT . IV . 13 DIOCLESIAN .
... hereafter . Procopius was the first of thefe martyrs , who being brought before the tribu- nal , and ordered to facrifice to the Gods , declared e that that he knew only one God , to whom we CENT . IV . 13 DIOCLESIAN .
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... first year of the perfecution , while it raged only against the governors of the church . In the fecond year , when the perfecution grew hotter , Imperial letters were fent into Paleftine , commanding all men , without exception , to ...
... first year of the perfecution , while it raged only against the governors of the church . In the fecond year , when the perfecution grew hotter , Imperial letters were fent into Paleftine , commanding all men , without exception , to ...
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... first weakened by the application of hot iron . Few perfecutors exceeded Urbanus in malice and activity . He doomed three to fight with one another ; Auxentius , a venerable old faint , he condemned to the beafts . Some of them he ...
... first weakened by the application of hot iron . Few perfecutors exceeded Urbanus in malice and activity . He doomed three to fight with one another ; Auxentius , a venerable old faint , he condemned to the beafts . Some of them he ...
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Page 66 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Page 374 - God, after the inward man, and yet seeing another law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin...
Page 227 - Her general aim in these different reviews and alterations hath been, as she further declares in her said Preface, to do that which, according to her best understanding, might most tend to the preservation of peace and unity in the Church; the procuring of reverence, and the exciting of piety and devotion in the worship of God; and, finally, the cutting off occasion, from them that seek occasion, of cavil or quarrel against her Liturgy.
Page 55 - And whosoever shall say that there was a time when the Son of God was not...
Page 425 - And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them and of their children after them...
Page 523 - Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead: and inferior to the Father, as touching his Manhood.
Page 392 - I can or cannot resist, I know not. But my hope is this, that thou art faithful that thou dost not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able, but with the temptation also makest a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.* Lord, I love thee ; thou hast smitten my heart with thy Word, and I have loved thee. But what do I love, when I love thee ? not the heavens and the earth, nor any created beauty. They cry aloud, we are not God, he made us. Where shall I find thee, but in thyself, above...
Page 442 - Apostle speaks, when he says, if by grace, then it is no more of works. And, to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. For if Christ had not died for our sins, Pelagius's possibility of nature, which he makes to be grace, would have been just the same.
Page 93 - Cease these proceedings, I beseech you, and remember that you are a mortal man. Be afraid of the day of judgment, and keep yourself pure thereunto. Intrude not yourself into ecclesiastical matters, neither give commands unto us concerning them; but learn them from us. God...
Page 311 - I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them, also, that love His appearing.