History of the Christian Church ... to the conversion of ConstantineJohn W. Parker, West Strand, 1847 - 416 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 40 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
الصفحة 269 - Every church," according to Dr. Burton, "had its own spiritual head or bishop, and was independent of every other church, with respect to its own internal regulations and laws. There was, however, a connexion, more or less intimate, between neighboring churches, which was a consequence, in some degree, of the geographical or civil divisions of the empire. Thus the churches of one province, such as Achaia, Egypt...
الصفحة 173 - Paul, though residing at Ephesus, was consulted, and gave directions as head of the Church of Corinth. Even in his lifetime he seems to have found the care of all his churches too great for him ; and we .can well understand the earnest charge which he gave to Timothy not long before his death, that he would commit the things which he had heard to faithful men, who should be able to teach others also.
الصفحة 145 - Christian in his new system of philosophy. He considered Christ as one among many emanations from God, who was sent into the world to free it from the tyranny of evil. He received whatever he had heard of the personal history of Jesus, and fully believed him to be the divine emanation called Christ. But he would not believe that Jesus had a real substantial body : he thought that a divine and heavenly being would never unite himself with what was earthly and material ; and having heard of Christ...
الصفحة 383 - THE perfection which the Greeks attained in literature and art is one of the most striking features in the history of the people. Their intellectual activity and their keen appreciation of the beautiful constantly gave birth to new forms of creative genius. There was an uninterrupted progress in the development of the Grecian mind from the earliest dawn of the history of the people to the downfall of their political independence...
الصفحة 224 - Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He has done me no injury : how then can I blaspheme my King and my SAVIOUR...
الصفحة 184 - ... himself frequently tried to induce them to join in a sacrifice, or in imprecations against Christ ; but they preferred death to either of these impieties ; and when Trajan's answer arrived, the work of persecution was likely to proceed more actively than before. It is painful to think...
الصفحة 4 - Truth: — it descants upon the progress of a Religion which, undoubtedly, came from Heaven, and which is, undoubtedly, the only religion by which we can hope to go to Heaven.
الصفحة 4 - EVERY history is more or less employed in detailing the different forms which Religion has assumed, and the conduct of persons acting under religious impressions ; and every reader may derive instruction from the facts of this nature which are contained in the records of past ages...
الصفحة 345 - Firmilianus evidently saw no distinction of rank between a bishop of Italy and a bishop of Cappadocia. He speaks of his just indignation being excited by the plain and palpable folly of Stephen, who boasted of his episcopal rank, and of his being the successor of St.