History of the Christian Church from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine ...: With a Memoir of the Author, Occasional Notes, and Questions Adapting it to the Use of Schools and CollegesWiley, 1839 - 407 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 53 - Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen ; to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
الصفحة 59 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
الصفحة 250 - ... of apostolic foundation, acquired a precedence in rank and dignity over the rest. This superiority was often increased by the bishop of the capital (who was called in later times the metropolitan) having actually planted the church in smaller and more distant places ; so that the mother-church, as it might literally be termed, continued to feel a natural and parental regard for the churches planted by itself. These churches, however, were wholly independent in matters of internal jurisdiction...
الصفحة 55 - We believe that laying on of hands, with prayer, upon baptized believers, as such, is an ordinance of Christ, and ought to be submitted unto by all such persons that are admitted to partake of the Lord's Supper...
الصفحة 138 - ... assigned to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the publication of them at that period would forcibly remind the Christians of the necessity which there was of flying from the devoted spot. It has even been said that new and supernatural warnings were given to them, to retire from Jerusalem ; but it is certain that, as early as the year 66, before the city was at all surrounded by armies, many of the inhabitants left it ; and a place named Pella, on the eastern side of the river Jordan, is mentioned...
الصفحة 351 - THE perfection which the Greeks attained in literature and art is one of the most striking features in the history of the people. Their intellectual activity and their keen appreciation of the beautiful constantly gave birth to new forms of creative genius. There was an uninterrupted progress in the development of the Grecian mind from the earliest dawn of the history of the people to the downfall of their political independence...
الصفحة 237 - But Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and for ever ; and so his doctrines have continued unchanged.
الصفحة 209 - Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He has done me no injury : how then can I blaspheme my King and my SAVIOUR...
الصفحة 290 - ... as to the actual condition of the souls of bad men; but with respect to the souls of the righteous, they conceived them to be in a place by themselves, where they enjoyed a kind of foretaste of the happiness which awaited them hereafter. It was also believed by a large portion of Christians, that the resurrection of the righteous would take place before the final resurrection of all mankind at the day of judgment. This was the doctrine of the millennium, which has been already mentioned as entertained...
الصفحة 93 - ... religious worship paid to a false God, without trying to convince the worshipper that he was following a delusion. The Divine Founder of Christianity did not intend it to be tolerated, but to triumph. It was to be the universal, the only religion; and though the apostles, like the rest of their countrymen, could have borne with personal insults and contempt, they had but one object in view, and that was, to plant the cross of Christ upon the ruins of every other religion. This could not fail,...