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SECTION III . — The Church of Alexandria . 1. Its missionary and political
character :Its local position Its exoteric teaching Catechetical systein Public
preaching Relative influence of separate Gospel truths Example of Scripture to
guide us 2.
SECTION III . — The Church of Alexandria . 1. Its missionary and political
character :Its local position Its exoteric teaching Catechetical systein Public
preaching Relative influence of separate Gospel truths Example of Scripture to
guide us 2.
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Text of Scripture not a sufficient protection to the revealed dogma :Implicit faith
147 Action of the intellect upon it 148 The mind tranquillized thereby 150
Attempted comprehensions 151 Fail to secure the truth 152 And to make it a
bond of ...
Text of Scripture not a sufficient protection to the revealed dogma :Implicit faith
147 Action of the intellect upon it 148 The mind tranquillized thereby 150
Attempted comprehensions 151 Fail to secure the truth 152 And to make it a
bond of ...
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This might have been conjectured , even had there been no proof of the fact ,
adapted as that philosopher's logical system confessedly is to baffle an adversary
, or at most to detect error , rather than to establish truth ' . But we have actually ...
This might have been conjectured , even had there been no proof of the fact ,
adapted as that philosopher's logical system confessedly is to baffle an adversary
, or at most to detect error , rather than to establish truth ' . But we have actually ...
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... misled by the unsoundness of the positions which they assumed , as
elementary truths or axioms in the argument . ... of truth and falsehood , which
their experience of this world furnished , could not at once be applied to measure
9 Greg .
... misled by the unsoundness of the positions which they assumed , as
elementary truths or axioms in the argument . ... 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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... that " “ they put themselves above the ancients , and the teachers of our youth ,
and the prelates of the day ; considering themselves alone to be wise , and to
have discovered truths , which had never been revealed to man before them .
... that " “ they put themselves above the ancients , and the teachers of our youth ,
and the prelates of the day ; considering themselves alone to be wise , and to
have discovered truths , which had never been revealed to man before them .
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Page 24 - But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Page 164 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do; for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that Himself doeth : and He will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
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Page 51 - The most accurate consideration of the subject will lead us to acquiesce in the statement, as a general truth, that the doctrines in question have never been learned merely from Scripture ; surely, the sacred volume was never intended, and was not adapted, to teach our creed.
Page 406 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page i - Put thou thy trust in the LORD, and be doing good ; dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Page 457 - Ursacius, though he would not subscribe against Athanasius. Yet even thus he forgot not his duty, for at the approach of death, as it were by his last testament, he bore witness to the force which had been used towards him, and anathematized the Arian heresy, and gave strict charge...
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| Title | The Arians of the Fourth Century |
| Author | John Henry Newman |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | E. Lumley, 1871 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 478 pages |
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