Cyclopædia of Religious Denominations: Containing Authentic Accounts of the Different Creeds and Systems Prevailing Throughout the World |
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... RELIGION . BY THE REV . ISAAC LEESER , PASTOR OF THE HEBREW PORTUGUESE CONGREGATION , PHILADELPHIA . THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH . BY PROFESSOR W. JOS . WALTERS , PHILADELPHIA . THE GREEK CHURCH . COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES . THE ...
... RELIGION . BY THE REV . ISAAC LEESER , PASTOR OF THE HEBREW PORTUGUESE CONGREGATION , PHILADELPHIA . THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH . BY PROFESSOR W. JOS . WALTERS , PHILADELPHIA . THE GREEK CHURCH . COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES . THE ...
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... RELIGION , OR ZOROASTRIANISM . THE HINDOO RELIGION , OR BRAHMINISM . BY JOHN BELL , A.M. FORMERLY PROFESSOR IN THE ELPHINSTONE COLLEGE , BOMBAY ; AND MEMBER OF THE BOMBAY BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY . HARMONY OF CHRISTIAN ...
... RELIGION , OR ZOROASTRIANISM . THE HINDOO RELIGION , OR BRAHMINISM . BY JOHN BELL , A.M. FORMERLY PROFESSOR IN THE ELPHINSTONE COLLEGE , BOMBAY ; AND MEMBER OF THE BOMBAY BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY . HARMONY OF CHRISTIAN ...
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... religious his- tory of the world . As prophets foretold , the Saviour appeared when the sceptre was departing from Judah , and the Jewish religion had dwindled down into a system of outward observances — when its tem- poral power had ...
... religious his- tory of the world . As prophets foretold , the Saviour appeared when the sceptre was departing from Judah , and the Jewish religion had dwindled down into a system of outward observances — when its tem- poral power had ...
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... religion . They soon experienced the fulfilment of their Master's prophetic warning , that the world which had hated him would persecute them ; but the blood of the martyrs proved to be the seed of the Church . " So mightily grew the ...
... religion . They soon experienced the fulfilment of their Master's prophetic warning , that the world which had hated him would persecute them ; but the blood of the martyrs proved to be the seed of the Church . " So mightily grew the ...
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... religion by an unbelieving world . The churches of Christ , whilst maintaining their distinctive peculiarities , have too often forgotten that remarkable prayer of their common Founder , in the prospect of leaving his disciples in the ...
... religion by an unbelieving world . The churches of Christ , whilst maintaining their distinctive peculiarities , have too often forgotten that remarkable prayer of their common Founder , in the prospect of leaving his disciples in the ...
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Page xx - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance : so that two whole and perfect Natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God. and very Man...
Page 25 - For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 207 - ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption, who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world...
Page 201 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 71 - Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and Man is one Christ.
Page 72 - Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men ; we acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy Divine majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings. The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.
Page 75 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page vii - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 76 - IT is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching; or ministering the sacraments in the congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same.
Page 72 - GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit ; grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort...