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Page 7 - It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most, excellent Theophilus, 4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Page 54 - The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and. of the Son ; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
Page 36 - And ye shall hear of wars, and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Page 54 - For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity : to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion : to say, There be three Gods, or three Lords.
Page 4 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 18 - Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas...
Page 54 - Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.
Page 4 - ... and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself. And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
Page 6 - AD 93, we may place it towards the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century ; but it is probably somewhat later (AD 130).
Page 4 - And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him : And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.