The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion: With the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Primitive Rule of Faith ; Translated from Their Originals with Notes, for the Advantage Chiefly of English Readers, and a Preliminary Discourse Upon Each Author, Together with a Prefatory Dissertation about the Right Use of the Fathers, Volume 1W.B., 1709 - 399 pages |
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... wou'd not have given us the Ex- ample of Swearing by himself , nor wou'd Chrift have answer'd upon Oath ; befides St. Paul fre- * See the Preliminary to Tertullian's Apology . quently 1 quently calls God to Witness , and the Primitive ...
... wou'd not have given us the Ex- ample of Swearing by himself , nor wou'd Chrift have answer'd upon Oath ; befides St. Paul fre- * See the Preliminary to Tertullian's Apology . quently 1 quently calls God to Witness , and the Primitive ...
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... wou'd fain See any other Reafon for this , but only that Dea- cons are below Prefbyters , and Bishops above em . For if Bifhops , who in the Chriftian Church anfwer to Aaron in the Temple according to Jerome , may be laid afide by ...
... wou'd fain See any other Reafon for this , but only that Dea- cons are below Prefbyters , and Bishops above em . For if Bifhops , who in the Chriftian Church anfwer to Aaron in the Temple according to Jerome , may be laid afide by ...
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... wou'd ask a confcientious Dif- fenter , whether in his Heart he can believe that the Primitive Saints and Martyrs wou'd invade the Epifcopal Power of their own Heads , and in defiance of the Apoftles , who were fo over Te- nacious of ...
... wou'd ask a confcientious Dif- fenter , whether in his Heart he can believe that the Primitive Saints and Martyrs wou'd invade the Epifcopal Power of their own Heads , and in defiance of the Apoftles , who were fo over Te- nacious of ...
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... wou'd fain fee a good Reafon , why we fhou'd not conclude , that the Fathers ( fuppofing them honest ) which are lost , fhould rather confirm thofe in Being , than contradict ' em , for the Catholick Writers which are lost , were once ...
... wou'd fain fee a good Reafon , why we fhou'd not conclude , that the Fathers ( fuppofing them honest ) which are lost , fhould rather confirm thofe in Being , than contradict ' em , for the Catholick Writers which are lost , were once ...
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... wou'd cry out Shame on the Argument , or else it wou'd make mad work in the World ; and yet the Argument holds equally good both ways , against the Legitimacy of Children , as well as the Genuinefs of Books ; that is , the Argument is ...
... wou'd cry out Shame on the Argument , or else it wou'd make mad work in the World ; and yet the Argument holds equally good both ways , against the Legitimacy of Children , as well as the Genuinefs of Books ; that is , the Argument is ...
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Page 26 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out : It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire : 48 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
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