Biography of the Early Church, Volume 2

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J.G. & F. Rivington, 1839
 

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Page 185 - But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with ? They say unto him, We are able.
Page 350 - The visible Church of Christ is a " congregation of faithful men, in which the pure " Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be " duly ministered, according to Christ's ordinance, in " all those things that of necessity are requisite to the
Page 201 - Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Page 137 - Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Page 53 - For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Page 359 - Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
Page 198 - We were troubled on every side : without were fightings, within were fears.
Page 215 - Whoever shall say that the baptism which is also given by heretics, in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, with the intention of doing what the church does, is not true baptism ; let him be accursed...
Page 90 - ... men for crimes they are predestinated to commit. They admit the presence of god, but distinguish between fore-knowing & predestinating. All the fathers before St. Austin were of this opinion. The church of Engld founded her article of predestination on his authority. Arians. X° heretics. They avow there was a time when the Son was not, that he was created in time mutable in nature, & like the angels liable to sin ; they deny the three persons in the trinity to be of the same essence. Erasmus...
Page 97 - withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed," Gal. ii. 11. " He reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come," before Felix and Drusilla, Acts xxiv.

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