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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... causes of little consequence , pro- claim , with a solemn and respectable voice , the empire of providence , and also the inconstancy and vanity of human things . And , among the many advantages that arise from the study of Ec ...
... causes of little consequence , pro- claim , with a solemn and respectable voice , the empire of providence , and also the inconstancy and vanity of human things . And , among the many advantages that arise from the study of Ec ...
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... causes or effects . But , however great the diversity of these objects may be , they are closely connected ; and it is the particular business of an ecclesiastical historian , to observe a method that will shew this connection in the ...
... causes or effects . But , however great the diversity of these objects may be , they are closely connected ; and it is the particular business of an ecclesiastical historian , to observe a method that will shew this connection in the ...
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... cause . And the truth is , none of them had wisdom equal to such a solemn and arduous enterprize . This ap- pears manifestly from the laborious , but useless efforts of some of the Greek and Roman philoso- phers against the vulgar ...
... cause . And the truth is , none of them had wisdom equal to such a solemn and arduous enterprize . This ap- pears manifestly from the laborious , but useless efforts of some of the Greek and Roman philoso- phers against the vulgar ...
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... causes corruption in that very nation which God had , in of the cor- a peculiar manner , separated from an idolatrous doctrine world to be the depository of divine truth ? Vari- and morals , ous causes may be assigned , in order to give ...
... causes corruption in that very nation which God had , in of the cor- a peculiar manner , separated from an idolatrous doctrine world to be the depository of divine truth ? Vari- and morals , ous causes may be assigned , in order to give ...
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... cause of the gospel , under the divine appointment , owed a considerable part of its rapid progress and sur- prising success , as the Acts of the Apostles , and the Epistles of St. Paul , abundantly testify . lem , tuted . V. The first ...
... cause of the gospel , under the divine appointment , owed a considerable part of its rapid progress and sur- prising success , as the Acts of the Apostles , and the Epistles of St. Paul , abundantly testify . lem , tuted . V. The first ...
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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...