Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Volume 3

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Lackington, Allen, and Company, 1805 - Church history

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Page 155 - Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are ; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Page 47 - ... temerity ever remain unpunished. For which reason we are much astonished at the custom of the Greeks to take away the bones of the saints, and we scarcely give credit to it. But what shall I say respecting the bodies of the holy apostles, when it is a known fact, that at the time of their martyrdom, a number of the faithful came from the east to claim them ? But when they had carried them out of the city, to the second milestone...
Page 40 - Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the right way : if his wrath be kindled, yea but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Page 53 - ... in holy places ; repair frequently to church ; and humbly implore the protection of the saints. If you observe these things, you may appear boldly at God's tribunal in the day of judgment, and say, Give, Lord, according as we have given '.
Page 309 - Toulouse a most severe and sanguinary inquisition was established against heretics. One of its canons is, It shall not be permitted to laymen to have the books of the Old and New Testament ; only they who, out of devotion, desire it, may have a Psalter, a Breviary, and the Hours of the Virgin. But we absolutely forbid them to have the above-mentioned books translated into the vulgar tongue.
Page 46 - Church which is to be dedicated, and as many prodigies are then wrought by it as if the bodies themselves had been carried thither ; whence it happened, that in the time of St. Leo, (as we learn from our ancestors,) when some Greeks doubted the virtue of such relics, that Pope called for a pair of scissors, and cut the linen, and blood...
Page 104 - Sclavonian letters, invented by the philosopher Constantine; and we order that the praises of Christ may be published in that language. It is not contrary to the faith to employ it in the public prayers of the church, and in reading the holy scriptures. He who made the three principal tongues, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, made the rest also for his own glory.
Page 94 - James, and send for the presbyters, to pray over him, and anoint him in the name of the Lord.
Page 86 - They offered up hair to them when they cut it off for the first time. Some Presbyters scratched off the paint from the images and mixed it with the holy Eucharist, and gave it in the Communion. Others put the body of the Lord into the hands | of the images, and made the communicants take it out thence. Others used boards with pictures painted on them, instead of an altar, on which they consecrated the elements ; and many such-like abuses were committed.
Page 1 - ... blaspheming the Holy Trinity, was burnt by a thunderbolt which came down on him from heaven. AD 504. While Deuterus, the Arrian bishop at Constantinople was baptizing a man of the name of Barba, and expressing the distinction between the persons of the Trinity incorrectly, saying, " I baptize you, O Barba, in the name of the Father, by the Son, in the Holy Ghost," the water suddenly disappeared.

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