Compendious Ecclesiastical History from the Earliest Period of TimeJames Burns, 1840 - 354 pages |
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... hands , " which " became a great mountain , and filled the whole earth . " " Thus was Christianity destined to spring from a small and obscure beginning , and to overspread the earth in the luxuriance of its growth . And so it came to ...
... hands , " which " became a great mountain , and filled the whole earth . " " Thus was Christianity destined to spring from a small and obscure beginning , and to overspread the earth in the luxuriance of its growth . And so it came to ...
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... hands to the Lord ; and at Antioch was a great multitude of believers . Thus was the first great impulse to the dissemi- nation of Christianity given by the persecution at Jerusalem . The next arose from the preaching of the apostle ...
... hands to the Lord ; and at Antioch was a great multitude of believers . Thus was the first great impulse to the dissemi- nation of Christianity given by the persecution at Jerusalem . The next arose from the preaching of the apostle ...
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... hands bound behind him , like a comely ram chosen from the flock to be a whole burnt - offering to God , said , ' Father of thy beloved and blessed Son Jesus Christ , through whom we have received the knowledge of thee ; God of angels ...
... hands bound behind him , like a comely ram chosen from the flock to be a whole burnt - offering to God , said , ' Father of thy beloved and blessed Son Jesus Christ , through whom we have received the knowledge of thee ; God of angels ...
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... hands and feet , without re- gard to his age ; and those at a distance throwing at him whatever came to hand ; and all thinking any one guilty of a great fault and impiety who should be wanting in insolence towards him . For they ...
... hands and feet , without re- gard to his age ; and those at a distance throwing at him whatever came to hand ; and all thinking any one guilty of a great fault and impiety who should be wanting in insolence towards him . For they ...
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... hand , the Roman Churches had been accustomed to admit heretics to communion by the imposition of hands ; thus , as it were , completing what had been deficient in their former state . Stephen , a proud and violent man , endeavoured to ...
... hand , the Roman Churches had been accustomed to admit heretics to communion by the imposition of hands ; thus , as it were , completing what had been deficient in their former state . Stephen , a proud and violent man , endeavoured to ...
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Page 46 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice : and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Page 7 - And the word of God increased ; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
Page 98 - The night is far spent, the day is at hand : let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day : not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Page 98 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 20 - Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him will I confess before My Father.
Page 7 - ... they shall take up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Page 3 - But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are : depart from me all ye workers of iniquity.
Page 34 - But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 55 - And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Page 6 - But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.