The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Volume 14Johnstone and Hunter, 1865 - Theology |
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... regard to Birgitta . Round her shape , at best but dimly seen in the darkness of those old centuries , there has gradually clustered a repulsive mass of lying Romish legends , distorting its fair proportions , obscuring its true nature ...
... regard to Birgitta . Round her shape , at best but dimly seen in the darkness of those old centuries , there has gradually clustered a repulsive mass of lying Romish legends , distorting its fair proportions , obscuring its true nature ...
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... regard to Birgitta's character and spiritual beliefs . We need scarcely remind the reader that in the Middle Ages such imaginary Divine visions or special communications from heaven were by no means rare . Suso and Catherine of Siena ...
... regard to Birgitta's character and spiritual beliefs . We need scarcely remind the reader that in the Middle Ages such imaginary Divine visions or special communications from heaven were by no means rare . Suso and Catherine of Siena ...
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... regard to the general character of Birgitta's " Revelations , " a few sentences shall here suffice . " They bear , " says Professor Hammerich , " in their every aspect the stamp of herself and of her age ; her doubt , her hope , her ...
... regard to the general character of Birgitta's " Revelations , " a few sentences shall here suffice . " They bear , " says Professor Hammerich , " in their every aspect the stamp of herself and of her age ; her doubt , her hope , her ...
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... regard to the system of theology , properly so called , which Birgitta has unfolded in those singular books of " Revelations , " it is somewhat difficult to speak with cer- tainty . To crystallize religious poetry into dogmatics is ...
... regard to the system of theology , properly so called , which Birgitta has unfolded in those singular books of " Revelations , " it is somewhat difficult to speak with cer- tainty . To crystallize religious poetry into dogmatics is ...
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... regard as the funda- mental axiom on the subject , ignorance of which in early times , and want of a formally - expressed statement of which in all times , has made a scientific discussion of the subject impossible . We have only ...
... regard as the funda- mental axiom on the subject , ignorance of which in early times , and want of a formally - expressed statement of which in all times , has made a scientific discussion of the subject impossible . We have only ...
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Page 632 - When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page 518 - For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Page 481 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 246 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 255 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 246 - Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
Page 484 - For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Page 749 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me : And I give unto them eternal life ; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My father which gave them me is greater than all ; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Page 745 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent : because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 231 - It is evident unto all men, diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these orders of ministers in Christ's Church: Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.