The definitions of faith and canons of discipline of the six œcumenical councils, with the remaining canons of the code of the universal Church, tr. with notes, to which are added the Apostolical canons, by W.A. Hammond

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Page 11 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Page 38 - Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made; Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary And was made man; And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
Page 7 - We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things, visible and invisible: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, only begotten, that is, of the substance of the Father; God of God; Light of light; very God of very God; begotten, not made; being of one substance with the Father...
Page 78 - Onlybegotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 78 - We then following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to confess, one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in Manhood...
Page 112 - And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness : and thou shalt know the LORD.
Page 38 - I believe in One God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible ; and in One Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God...
Page 7 - RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS BEGIN. EASTER DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 72 - If any one does not confess that the Word of God suffered in the flesh, and was crucified in the flesh...
Page 7 - But those who say, that there was a time when he was not, and that he was not before he was begotten, and that he was made out of nothing ; or affirm that he is of any other substance or essence; or that the Son of God is created, and mutable or changeable, the catholic church doth pronounce accursed."* — Such was the " form of sound words," — as these instruments of ecclesiastical pow* It may be found in Sue.

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