The City of God and the Church-makers: An Examination Into Structural Christianity, and Criticism of Christian Scribes and Doctors of the Law, by R. Abbey |
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Page 214 - Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Page 37 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers ; unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come ; for which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
Page 93 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 93 - And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Page 83 - Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple ? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ? Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Page 93 - If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail ; or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless have not eaten thereof...
Page 97 - In a parable of the vineyard let out to unthankful husbandmen, Christ foretelleth the reprobation of the Jews., and the calling of the Gentiles.
Page 138 - It appears highly probable — I might say, morally certain — that wherever a Jewish synagogue existed, that was brought — the whole, or the chief part of it— to embrace the gospel, the apostles did not there so much form a Christian church, (or congregation, ecclesia,*) as make an existing congregation Christian...
Page 150 - ... of those who were at the head of the Jewish state, to whom nothing could more recommend him than the zeal that he showed in that persecution. As to credit or reputation, that too lay all on the side he forsook. The sect he embraced was under the greatest and most universal contempt of any then in the world.
Page 138 - I may so speak) of government unchanged ; the ' rulers of synagogues/ elders, and other officers (whether spiritual or ecclesiastical, or both) being already provided in the existing institutions.