Essays on the Rise and Progress of the Christian Religion in the West of Europe: From the Reign of Tiberius to the End of the Council of Trent |
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... natural history and some information of other kinds . Mr. Lowe , who is proud of being the author of the Revised Code , may despise the information in history and geography which can be acquired at an elementary school ; but such ...
... natural history and some information of other kinds . Mr. Lowe , who is proud of being the author of the Revised Code , may despise the information in history and geography which can be acquired at an elementary school ; but such ...
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... nature , and his usual brevity of expression . He gives this abstract as his reason for not attempting to relate the history of the Republic : - 6 Nam post conditam urbem , octingentos et viginti prioris ævi annos multi auctores ...
... nature , and his usual brevity of expression . He gives this abstract as his reason for not attempting to relate the history of the Republic : - 6 Nam post conditam urbem , octingentos et viginti prioris ævi annos multi auctores ...
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... nature , or whether they were meant to be real objects of worship , had , before the advent of Augustus , lost all credit with the people of Greece and Rome . Socrates was content to die , rather than profess a real belief in the gods ...
... nature , or whether they were meant to be real objects of worship , had , before the advent of Augustus , lost all credit with the people of Greece and Rome . Socrates was content to die , rather than profess a real belief in the gods ...
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... nature of man to misuse all the gifts of God , to pervert them to wrong purposes , to employ them for the destruction instead of the preservation of the human race . From the first of these passions arise jealousy , adultery , community ...
... nature of man to misuse all the gifts of God , to pervert them to wrong purposes , to employ them for the destruction instead of the preservation of the human race . From the first of these passions arise jealousy , adultery , community ...
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... natural soreness at the sight of the fatted calf prepared for his penitent brother , the father does not tell him that he also has sinned , and that he also must fall at his father's feet , and confess his offences ; on the contrary ...
... natural soreness at the sight of the fatted calf prepared for his penitent brother , the father does not tell him that he also has sinned , and that he also must fall at his father's feet , and confess his offences ; on the contrary ...
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Page 286 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days: There, ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere...
Page 302 - Transubstantiation, or the change of the substance of bread and wine in the supper of the ' Lord, cannot be proved by holy writ ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
Page 32 - But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles : but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
Page 302 - As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our Election in Christ, is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things...
Page 24 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see :The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them : and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me.
Page 8 - A GENERAL DICTIONARY of GEOGRAPHY, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical : forming a complete Gazetteer of the World. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, LL.DFRGS Revised to July 1867.
Page 6 - An English-Greek Lexicon, containing all the Greek Words used by Writers of good authority. By CD YONGE, BA New Edition.
Page 285 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And " Let us worship God !
Page 12 - And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth : for there is one God ; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than, all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
Page 23 - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me : And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.