The Principles of Church History

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E.F. de Selding, 1871 - 599 páginas
 

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Página 22 - I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them, also, that love His appearing.
Página 485 - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Página 193 - After- a serious deliberation of six months, the three hundred and thirty-eight bishops pronounced and subscribed a unanimous decree, that all visible symbols of Christ, except in the Eucharist, were either blasphemous or heretical; that image worship was a corruption of Christianity and a renewal of Paganism; that all such monuments of idolatry should be broken or erased ; and that those who should refuse to deliver the objects of their private superstition were guilty of disobedience to the authority...
Página 201 - Long life and victory to Charles, the most pious Augustus, crowned by God the great and pacific emperor of the Romans!
Página 48 - I saw them myself : I heard them speak : I diligently inquired by what means such an articulate voice could be formed without any organ of speech : I used my eyes to examine the report of my ears : I opened their mouth, and...
Página 22 - The assembly being afflicted with vehement sorrow, he besought them to moderate their grief; " for to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Página 310 - Rome is notorious, has, however, the candor to own, that this was an iron age, barren of all goodness; a leaden age, abounding in all wickedness; and a dark age, remarkable above all others for the scarcity of writers, and men of learning...
Página 463 - It is not expedient for you to proceed against the bishop in that violent manner. For what he saith is certainly true, nor can we with decency condemn him. He is a holy man, more so than we ourselves are ; a man of excellent genius, and of the best morals ; no prelate in Christendom is thought to excel him.
Página 210 - If they have not, show them the consequence; namely, that the gods must be infinite in number, and that no man can rationally be at ease in worshipping any of them, lest he should, by that means, offend one, who is more powerful. Argue thus with them, not in the way of insult, but with temper and moderation...
Página 213 - God scourgeth every son whom he receiveth," was frequently in his mouth. Even amidst his bodily weakness, he was employed in writing two little treatises. Perceiving his end to draw near, h said, " If my Maker please, I will go to him from the flesh, who, when I was not, formed me out of nothing. My soul desires to see Christ, my king, in his beauty.

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