The History of the Church of Christ: The fourth and fifth centuriesFarrand, Mallory, and Company, 1809 |
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... contempt . The advantages and abuses , attendant on Christian Establishments , display themselves , on this occasion , in a very conspicuous point of view . I have en- deavoured , with faithfulness and candour , to point out.
... contempt . The advantages and abuses , attendant on Christian Establishments , display themselves , on this occasion , in a very conspicuous point of view . I have en- deavoured , with faithfulness and candour , to point out.
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... occasion . And it is the only instance of deviation into secular matters , which I re- member to have seen as yet in primitive christians . It might be only a sally of imprudent vivacity , but even so it was extremely ill - timed ...
... occasion . And it is the only instance of deviation into secular matters , which I re- member to have seen as yet in primitive christians . It might be only a sally of imprudent vivacity , but even so it was extremely ill - timed ...
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... occasion , was felt by Romanus , but exerted in a manner more agreeable to the christian dis- pensation . He cried aloud , and rebuked their coward- ice and perfidy . But being seized immediately , and condemned to the flames , and ...
... occasion , was felt by Romanus , but exerted in a manner more agreeable to the christian dis- pensation . He cried aloud , and rebuked their coward- ice and perfidy . But being seized immediately , and condemned to the flames , and ...
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... occasion . In the fifth year of the persecution , a Tyrian virgin , Theodosia , not quite eighteen years old , was put to death for owning and countenancing some christian prisoners . The judge , Urbanus , afterwards condemned them to ...
... occasion . In the fifth year of the persecution , a Tyrian virgin , Theodosia , not quite eighteen years old , was put to death for owning and countenancing some christian prisoners . The judge , Urbanus , afterwards condemned them to ...
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... occasion , were the only persons who employed them- selves in doing good , every day busying themselves in taking care of the sick , and burying the dead , whereas numbers of pagans were neglected by their own friends ; they gathered ...
... occasion , were the only persons who employed them- selves in doing good , every day busying themselves in taking care of the sick , and burying the dead , whereas numbers of pagans were neglected by their own friends ; they gathered ...
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Page 340 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 71 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Page 388 - It is not of him that willeth or of him that runneth...
Page 341 - LORD, truly I am thy servant ; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid : thou hast loosed my bonds.
Page 376 - I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good ; and I will put my fear into their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Page 458 - Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead: and inferior to the Father, as touching his Manhood.
Page 376 - 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 348 - God is faithful, who will not suffer" us " to be tempted above that" we " are able ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that " we
Page 332 - ... he delights in the law of God after the inward man, yet that there is another law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin, which is in his members.
Page 290 - For thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless, till it rest in thee.