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... Centuries II . - Application continued . - The Church of the Fourth Century 204 242 • CHAPTER V. ILLUSTRATIONS CONTINUED . Application of the First Test continued . - The Church of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries SEC . I. - The Arians of ...
... Centuries II . - Application continued . - The Church of the Fourth Century 204 242 • CHAPTER V. ILLUSTRATIONS CONTINUED . Application of the First Test continued . - The Church of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries SEC . I. - The Arians of ...
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... centuries is to go for nothing . Christianity is no dream of the study or the cloister . It has long since passed beyond the letter of documents and the reasonings of individual minds , and has become public property . Its " sound has ...
... centuries is to go for nothing . Christianity is no dream of the study or the cloister . It has long since passed beyond the letter of documents and the reasonings of individual minds , and has become public property . Its " sound has ...
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... century , or every year , or every month ? Does everywhere ' mean in every country , or in every diocese ? and does ' the Consent of Fathers ' require us to produce the direct testimony of every one of them ? How many Fa- thers , how ...
... century , or every year , or every month ? Does everywhere ' mean in every country , or in every diocese ? and does ' the Consent of Fathers ' require us to produce the direct testimony of every one of them ? How many Fa- thers , how ...
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... century , on occasion of the incipient innovations of the Syrian heretical school . Now the Fathers there assembled , for what- ever reason , condemned , or at least withdrew , when it came into the dispute , the word " Homoision ...
... century , on occasion of the incipient innovations of the Syrian heretical school . Now the Fathers there assembled , for what- ever reason , condemned , or at least withdrew , when it came into the dispute , the word " Homoision ...
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... century , finding that , if he distinctly called the Third Person in the Blessed Trinity by the Name of God , he should be put out of the Church by the Arians , pointedly refrained from doing so on an occasion on which his enemies were ...
... century , finding that , if he distinctly called the Third Person in the Blessed Trinity by the Name of God , he should be put out of the Church by the Arians , pointedly refrained from doing so on an occasion on which his enemies were ...
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Page 353 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 343 - 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 428 - 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 419 - And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
Page 353 - 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 39 - In time it enters upon strange territory ; points of controversy alter their bearing ; parties rise and fall about it ; dangers and hopes appear in new relations, and old principles reappear under new forms ; it changes with them, in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise ; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often...
Page 114 - Our existence is not only successive, as it must be of necessity, but one state of our life and being is appointed by God to be a preparation for another ; and that, to be the means of attaining to another succeeding one : Infancy to childhood ; childhood to youth ; youth to mature age. Men are impatient, and for precipitating things : but the Author of nature appears deliberate throughout his operations ; accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps.
Page 112 - For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 326 - 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 375 - Him, and the Son who came forth from Him and taught us these things, and the host of the other good angels who follow and are made like to Him, and the prophetic Spirit...