An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: In which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power are Considered in Their Connection with the State of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe During that PeriodR. Baynes, 1819 |
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... empire of the MESSIAH . V. Under the calamitous events that have hap- pened to the church , may be comprehended the injuries it has received from the vices and passions of its friends , and the bitter opposition and insi- dious dious ...
... empire of the MESSIAH . V. Under the calamitous events that have hap- pened to the church , may be comprehended the injuries it has received from the vices and passions of its friends , and the bitter opposition and insi- dious dious ...
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... empire of providence , and also the inconstancy and vanity of human things . And , among the many advantages that arise from the study of Ec- clesiastical History , it is none of the least , that we shall see therein the origin and ...
... empire of providence , and also the inconstancy and vanity of human things . And , among the many advantages that arise from the study of Ec- clesiastical History , it is none of the least , that we shall see therein the origin and ...
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... empire , when I. JESUS CHRIST made his appearance upon earth . PART I The remoter nations , which had submitted to the The state of yoke of this mighty empire , were ruled , either by the Roman Roman governors , invested with temporary ...
... empire , when I. JESUS CHRIST made his appearance upon earth . PART I The remoter nations , which had submitted to the The state of yoke of this mighty empire , were ruled , either by the Roman Roman governors , invested with temporary ...
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... empire were levied , were the occasions of perpetual tu- mults and unsupportable grievances . And among the many evils that arose from thence , we justly reckon the formidable armies , that were neces- sary to support these extortions ...
... empire were levied , were the occasions of perpetual tu- mults and unsupportable grievances . And among the many evils that arose from thence , we justly reckon the formidable armies , that were neces- sary to support these extortions ...
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... empire , at the birth of The Roman Christ , was less agitated by wars and tumults , empire en- than it had been for many years before . For though I cannot assent to the opinion of those , who , following the account of Orosius , main ...
... empire , at the birth of The Roman Christ , was less agitated by wars and tumults , empire en- than it had been for many years before . For though I cannot assent to the opinion of those , who , following the account of Orosius , main ...
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Página 109 - For, not long after Christ's ascension into heaven, several histories of his life and doctrines, full of pious frauds, and fabulous wonders, were composed by persons, whose intentions, perhaps, were not bad, but whose writings discovered the greatest superstition and ignorance. Nor was this all : productions appeared, which were imposed on the world by fraudulent men as the writings of the holy apostles.
Página 409 - The subject of this fatal controversy, which kindled such deplorable divisions throughout the Christian world, was the doctrine of three persons in the godhead ; a doctrine which, in the three preceding centuries, had happily escaped the vain curiosity of human researches, and been left undefined and undetermined by any particular set of ideas.
Página 186 - They all attributed a double sense to the words of scripture ; the one obvious and literal, the other hidden and mysterious, which lay concealed, as it were, under the veil of the outward letter.
Página 284 - Long before this period, an opinion had prevailed, that Christ was to come and reign a thousand years among men, before the entire and final dissolution of this world. This opinion, which had hitherto met with no opposition...
Página 65 - Mosheim gives it as the result of his researches, that " the stories often told respecting their travels among the Gauls, the Britons, the Spaniards, the Germans, the Americans, the Chinese, the Indians, and the Russians, are too recent and fantastic to be received by an inquisitive lover of the truth.
Página 193 - Christ prescribed to all his disciples one and the same rule of life and manners. But certain Christian doctors, either through a desire of imitating the nations among whom they lived, or in consequence of a natural propensity to a life of austerity (which is a disease not uncommon in Syria, Egypt, and other...
Página 211 - The reasons of this particular ritual coincide with what we have said in general concerning the origin and causes of the multiplied ceremonies that crept from time to time into the church.
Página 180 - Jews all hopes of seeing their government restored to its former lustre, and their country arising out of ruins. And accordingly, the bishops considered themselves as invested with a rank and character similar to those of the high priest among the Jews, while the presbyters represented the priests, and the deacons the levites.
Página 137 - The greatest part of this sect adopted rules of life that were full of austerity, recommended a strict and rigorous abstinence, and prescribed the most severe bodily mortifications, from a notion that they had a happy influence in purifying and enlarging the mind, and in disposing it for the contemplation of celestial things. As they looked upon it to be the...
Página 353 - ... enjoyed. In the ecclesiastical commonwealth, they were indeed the most eminent order of citizens ; but still they were citizens as well as their brethren, and subject like them to the edicts and laws of the emperors. All religious causes of extraordinary importance were examined and determined, either by judges appointed by the emperors, or in councils assembled for that purpose, while those of inferior moment were decided in each district by its respective bishop. The ecclesiastical Inws were...