A compendious ecclesiastical historyJames Burns, 1840 - 254 pages |
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... hands , " which " became a great mountain , and filled the whole earth . " 2 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 . " 2 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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... hand toward them , groaning , and looking up to heaven , said , ' Away with the godless ! ' But when the proconsul pressed him , and said , ' Swear , and I will release thee - reproach Christ ; ' Polycarp re- plied , Eighty and six ...
... hand toward them , groaning , and looking up to heaven , said , ' Away with the godless ! ' But when the proconsul pressed him , and said , ' Swear , and I will release thee - reproach Christ ; ' Polycarp re- plied , Eighty and six ...
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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 in confir- mation . The practice of the African Church was approved by many of the Eastern and Egyptian Churches , and seems to have been supported by very strong reasoning ; but Stephen insisted that the cus- tom of the Roman ...
... hands in confir- mation . The practice of the African Church was approved by many of the Eastern and Egyptian Churches , and seems to have been supported by very strong reasoning ; but Stephen insisted that the cus- tom of the Roman ...
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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 68 - 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 192 - Be of good heart, brother, for God will either assuage the fury of the flame, or else strengthen us to abide it.
Page 193 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
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 24 - 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 86 - The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.
Page 33 - 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.
Page 11 - There is not a nation, either of Greek or Barbarian, or of any other name, even of those who wander in tribes, and live in tents, amongst whom prayers and thanksgivings are not offered to the Father and Creator of the universe by the name of the crucified Jesus.