History of Christian Churches and Sects, from the Earliest Ages of Christianity, 1. köideR. Bentley, 1856 |
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... ancient Ethiopia of prophecy and history - could be reduced to the subjection of the see of Rome . A treaty was set on foot between the two countries in 1509. The Abyssinians requested that printers , artificers , and learned men might ...
... ancient Ethiopia of prophecy and history - could be reduced to the subjection of the see of Rome . A treaty was set on foot between the two countries in 1509. The Abyssinians requested that printers , artificers , and learned men might ...
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... ancient faith or perish . Simeon the Abuna gave them his blessing , assuring them that every soldier that fell would receive a martyr's crown ; but their leader died beneath a shower of arrows , and his fol- lowers , panic - struck ...
... ancient faith or perish . Simeon the Abuna gave them his blessing , assuring them that every soldier that fell would receive a martyr's crown ; but their leader died beneath a shower of arrows , and his fol- lowers , panic - struck ...
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... ancient religion . A large estate and palace on the lake of Demba was provided for the new patriarch ; a college was erected for sixty students , and the work of subjugating Abyssinia to the Church of Rome seemed to be accomplished ...
... ancient religion . A large estate and palace on the lake of Demba was provided for the new patriarch ; a college was erected for sixty students , and the work of subjugating Abyssinia to the Church of Rome seemed to be accomplished ...
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... ancient faith . The Jesuit mission was at an end ; and with it the hopes and prospects of the Church of Rome . The Roman patriarch abandoned Abyssinia in 1633 . From this period nothing further was known of Abyssinia till the travels of ...
... ancient faith . The Jesuit mission was at an end ; and with it the hopes and prospects of the Church of Rome . The Roman patriarch abandoned Abyssinia in 1633 . From this period nothing further was known of Abyssinia till the travels of ...
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... ancient authority , many rash and dangerous theories have been always hazarded , it is not reasonable to refuse all credit to the statement of the his- torians hostile to them ; that among the Albigenses there were some who gave such ...
... ancient authority , many rash and dangerous theories have been always hazarded , it is not reasonable to refuse all credit to the statement of the his- torians hostile to them ; that among the Albigenses there were some who gave such ...
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Page 214 - ... under the form and figure of bread and wine, which we there presently do see and perceive by outward senses, is verily, substantially, and really contained and comprehended the very selfsame body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which was born of the Virgin Mary, and suffered tipon the cross for our redemption...
Page 258 - No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and...
Page 50 - GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God.
Page 224 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 43 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 279 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer, but by the framers of the Rubric themselves immediately after the confirmation of it by Act of Parliament.
Page 424 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 264 - Furthermore, we must receive God's promises in such wise, as they be generally set forth to us in holy Scripture : and, in our doings, that Will of God is to be followed, which we have expressly declared unto us in the Word of God.
Page 240 - 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 120 - That he should comfort us. as a mother comforteth her children ; That he should help our infirmities, and make intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered ; That he should bear witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.