A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity : an Impartial Count of All the Principal Denominations which Have Subsisted in the Religious World, from the Birth of Christ to the Present Day : Together with an Accurate Statement of the Most Remarkable Transactions and Events Recorded in Ecclesiastical HistoryE.T. Scott, 1823 - 592 pages |
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... ancients , and still practised in several parts of the world . It con- sisted in washing the body , which was always ... ancient Christians had their ablutions before communion , which the Romish church still retain before their mass ...
... ancients , and still practised in several parts of the world . It con- sisted in washing the body , which was always ... ancient Christians had their ablutions before communion , which the Romish church still retain before their mass ...
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... ancient the apostles ' time ; when it was a cus- church ; it was the first act or step to- tom for persons who had no children of wards the punishment or expulsion of their own , and were possessed of an es- delinquents . In case of ...
... ancient the apostles ' time ; when it was a cus- church ; it was the first act or step to- tom for persons who had no children of wards the punishment or expulsion of their own , and were possessed of an es- delinquents . In case of ...
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... ancient Christians , when liberal con - patient , or that which is acted upon . tributions were made by the rich to the poor . St. Chrysostom gives the follow- ing account of this feast , which he de- rives from the apostolic practice ...
... ancient Christians , when liberal con - patient , or that which is acted upon . tributions were made by the rich to the poor . St. Chrysostom gives the follow- ing account of this feast , which he de- rives from the apostolic practice ...
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... ancient sacrifices lished ; and that every one was to be saved by the internal operations of the Holy Spirit alone , without any external act of religion . ALMONER , a person employed by another , in the distribution of charity . In its ...
... ancient sacrifices lished ; and that every one was to be saved by the internal operations of the Holy Spirit alone , without any external act of religion . ALMONER , a person employed by another , in the distribution of charity . In its ...
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... ancient writers for the office of a bishop . But as the title apostolicus has been ap- APOSTOLIC , APOLLINARIANS , were ancient heretics , who denied the proper hu manity of Christ , and maintained that the body which he assumed was en ...
... ancient writers for the office of a bishop . But as the title apostolicus has been ap- APOSTOLIC , APOLLINARIANS , were ancient heretics , who denied the proper hu manity of Christ , and maintained that the body which he assumed was en ...
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Page 74 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 258 - How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his Holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit...
Page 399 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 270 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron ; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Page 43 - Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 357 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Page 72 - For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
Page 74 - AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION IN TIMES PAST IN THE LUSTS OF OUR FLESH, FULFILLING THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND OF THE MIND; AND WERE BY NATURE THE CHILDREN OF WRATH, EVEN AS OTHERS.
Page 74 - ALL, those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call by his word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ...
Page 349 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...