...These abuses crept in by degrees ; and the colour seems not entirely to have changed till the er.il of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries *. The corruption and ravages of the fourth seal cameon likewise by gradation, growing as it were, out of the two preceding ; and did not arrive...

...fuperftition impofed a yoke of ceremonies and obfervances, 'fuch as pure Religion had rejected,' fcems to have had its commencement in thofe times when the...of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries t. The corruption and ravages of the fourth feal came on likewife by gradation, growing, as it were,...

...disposal. The occasion on which this homily was pronounced may be learned from the history of the church in the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries. The eunuch Eutropius, a patrician and consul, stood high in favour with Arcadius emperor of the east, and...

...disposal. The occasion on which this homily was pronounced may be learned from the history of the church in the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries. The eunuch Eutropius, a patrician and consul, stood high in favour with Arcadius emperor of the east, and...

...superstition. These abuses crept in by degrees, and the black colour seems not to have thoroughly prevailed till the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries, (Mosheim, cent. v. pp. 376, 382, 390—396.) The corruption and ravages of the fourth seal came on...

...upon those by whom they were surrounded, when they had to rely upon the power of individual action. At the end of the fourth, and beginning of the fifth centuries, the body of believers had assumed the form of a regularly constituted society, and were henceforth to operate...

...congregatio, fides, oblatio, officium, oratio, ordo, poenitentia, praedicatio, statio, etc. Coming down to the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries, the age of the great Latin Fathers, Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, we find that the ecclesiastical vocabulary...