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... visible facts were ori- ginally observed by the Church when it was pre- scribed that the offices of deacon and priest might be conferred on youths of twenty - three and twenty- four years of age , and even the Episcopate at thirty . And ...
... visible facts were ori- ginally observed by the Church when it was pre- scribed that the offices of deacon and priest might be conferred on youths of twenty - three and twenty- four years of age , and even the Episcopate at thirty . And ...
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... visible fervour and zeal of penitents is evidence of a higher state of grace ! What can their zeal or fervour do in comparison with the unconscious strength and steadfast principle of those that have ever walked with God ? It is not ...
... visible fervour and zeal of penitents is evidence of a higher state of grace ! What can their zeal or fervour do in comparison with the unconscious strength and steadfast principle of those that have ever walked with God ? It is not ...
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... the truth . As a test of the man , the less the better , because the probation is more visible , barefaced , and instructive . It is like the rage of Naaman when he was disappointed of being bidden 48 [ SERM . HOLY OBEDIENCE .
... the truth . As a test of the man , the less the better , because the probation is more visible , barefaced , and instructive . It is like the rage of Naaman when he was disappointed of being bidden 48 [ SERM . HOLY OBEDIENCE .
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... visible order of it proves us now . 3. Another obvious remark is , how great are the consequences which flow from these little things . VOL . II . E At the baptism of our Lord He was proclaimed to III . ] 49 HOLY OBEDIENCE .
... visible order of it proves us now . 3. Another obvious remark is , how great are the consequences which flow from these little things . VOL . II . E At the baptism of our Lord He was proclaimed to III . ] 49 HOLY OBEDIENCE .
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... visible Church , since the world entered into it , has always been turbulent and disordered its rule disputed , its discipline in- fringed , its doctrine gainsayed . Men of unsubdued tempers and headstrong wills have at all times ...
... visible Church , since the world entered into it , has always been turbulent and disordered its rule disputed , its discipline in- fringed , its doctrine gainsayed . Men of unsubdued tempers and headstrong wills have at all times ...
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Page 64 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 382 - And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery ; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned : but what sayest 40 thou ? This they said tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
Page 342 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 2 - For the right faith is, that we believe and confess, That our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man ; God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds ; and Man of the substance of his mother, born in the world ; perfect God, and perfect man, of a reasonable soul, and human flesh subsisting; equal to the Fattier, as touching his Godhead ; and inferior to the Father, as touching his manhood.
Page 42 - John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
Page 332 - While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud. 35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Page 248 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Page ix - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He hath a devil.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 194 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like! unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 313 - of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble...