The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Traced for the First Three Hundred Years

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C. Scribner, 1859 - 656 من الصفحات

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Corinthians xii
68
THE ORDINATION OF PAUL AND BARNABAS THEIR MISSIONARY TOUR
70
Even the Apostles considered preaching their highest function
74
Opposition of the Jews and dangers of the missionaries
77
The moral condition of the Empire
79
Constituent members of the Council of Jerusalem
83
CHAPTER VI
90
CHAPTER VII
100
His speech on Mars Hill
104
CHAPTER VIII
115
Churches founded at Colosse and elsewhere
121
Progress of the gospel in Ephesus
127
pians
152
The Jews at first the chief persecutors of the Church
164
SECTION II
176
The dates of the Catholic Epistles
182
Ministers of the Word should exercise no lordship over each
185
The Epistle to Diognetus
186
CHAPTER II
188
The Deity of Christ
194
CHAPTER III
200
Simon Magus and other heretics mentioned in the New Testa
205
Our Lord recognized the permanent obligation of the Fourth Com
211
230
213
Scriptures read publicly
217
Preparations for a great Deliverer and expectation of His appear
222
Profane excluded from the Eucharist
223
Perversion of excommunication by the Church of Rome
229
Previous position of Paul and Barnabas
237
The members of the apostolic Churches elected all their
244
tion
250
CHAPTER IV
263
The angels of the Churches were their messengers sent to visit
270
FROM THE DEATH OF THE APOSTLE JOHN TO THE CONVERSIO
273
Why our Lord wrote nothing Himself
279
CHAPTER II
284
Christianity opposed as a new religion
288
Paul preaches in Macedonia and Illyricum
290
The order in which the Gospels appeared
294
Persecution under Decius
300
Cruelties now practised
306
Spectators impressed by the sufferings of the Christians
309
CHAPTER III
312
Minucius Felix
317
Origin of the use of the sign of the cross
319
Objections of the Christians to the theatre the gladiatorial shows
321
Their kindness to distressed heathens
327
The different recensions of the Seven Letters known to Eusebius
395
The Epistle of Polycarp 365
411
The three Curetonian Letters as objectionable as those formerly
414
Their puerilities vapouring and mysticism betray their spurious
422
CHAPTER IV
429
Montanus and his system
436
Fasting soon made a test of repentance
441
Doctrine of Venial and Mortal Sins
442
Scripture venerated and studied
446
Christ God and man
452
The Atonement and Justification by Faith
458
tament
459
Psalmody of the Church
464
Polycarp probably baptized in infancy
472
Infant Baptism universal in Africa in the days of Cyprian
478
How the Holy Supper was administered in Rome in the second
484
The manner of preaching 469
490
CHAPTER IV
491
Before that date only one bishop in Egypt
492
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508
49
515
THE RISE OF THE HIERARCHY CONNECTED WITH THE SPREAD OF HERESIES
522
Deportment of the congregation
528
Suggested by the distractions of the Church
529
The primitive moderator and the bishop contrasted
535
The Pontifical Book remarkably confirms itNot strange that
552
Polycarp probably dissatisfied with the new arrangements
556
Circumstances in which the system originated
562
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567
Early jealousy towards the bishop of Rome
568
CHAPTER IX
575
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576
When this practice ceased
581
Difference between ancient and modern bishops
587
Power of the ecclesiastical president increased when elected by
590
Presbyters continued to ordain presbyters and deacons
596
Jealousies and contentions of city bishops
602
A part of the original constitution of the Church
609
Amphictyonic Council did not suggest the establishment of Synods
615
Early Synods composed of bishops and elders
619
The Paschal controversy and Victors excommunication
625
The history of these Epistles like the story of the Sibylline books
626
The tickets of peace and the schism of Felicissimus
631
The visible Church and its defects
637
Establishment of an odious ecclesiastical monopoly
644
Many corruptions already in the Church
650
Evangelical unityin what it consists
656

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الصفحة 45 - Therefore said he unto them ; The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few ; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
الصفحة 175 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
الصفحة 212 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves .to the Lord, To serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, To be his servants, Every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, And taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, And make them joyful in my house of prayer...
الصفحة 489 - I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. 6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
الصفحة 224 - In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
الصفحة 131 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
الصفحة 70 - Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
الصفحة 92 - These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.' And he came out the same hour.
الصفحة 17 - If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
الصفحة 86 - And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

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