The Christian Ambassador, Volume 7Richard Davies, 1869 - Theology |
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... christian belief are com- plexioned by the acceptance , modification , or denial of this doctrine . Its position in the system of christian truth is fundamental , and as men are denominated Trinitarian or anti - Trinitarian , their ...
... christian belief are com- plexioned by the acceptance , modification , or denial of this doctrine . Its position in the system of christian truth is fundamental , and as men are denominated Trinitarian or anti - Trinitarian , their ...
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... Christ and the Holy Ghost . The unity of God was firmly fixed in the faith of the Church as a fundamental article of revealed religion in opposition to Polytheism ; but the New Testament and the christian consciousness of the church as ...
... Christ and the Holy Ghost . The unity of God was firmly fixed in the faith of the Church as a fundamental article of revealed religion in opposition to Polytheism ; but the New Testament and the christian consciousness of the church as ...
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Christians ; Athenagoras , Theophilus of Antioch , Origen , Tertullian , Hippolytas , and in fact all the Fathers ... Christ Jesus our Lord , and his coming from heaven in the glory of the Father , to sum up all things , and to raise all ...
Christians ; Athenagoras , Theophilus of Antioch , Origen , Tertullian , Hippolytas , and in fact all the Fathers ... Christ Jesus our Lord , and his coming from heaven in the glory of the Father , to sum up all things , and to raise all ...
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... Christian institutions , faith , and practice of ages ; is , in fact , to affirm that every institution , and all dogma , and all usage distinctively Christian , have from the very time of Christ himself been founded upon error . Is it ...
... Christian institutions , faith , and practice of ages ; is , in fact , to affirm that every institution , and all dogma , and all usage distinctively Christian , have from the very time of Christ himself been founded upon error . Is it ...
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... Christian Church many of the Fathers employed exceedingly imperfect forms of expression in stating the doctrine of the Trinity . They often spoke of the Son as subject to the Father , and the Spirit as subject to both , in a manner that ...
... Christian Church many of the Fathers employed exceedingly imperfect forms of expression in stating the doctrine of the Trinity . They often spoke of the Son as subject to the Father , and the Spirit as subject to both , in a manner that ...
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Page 319 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To. abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Page 285 - And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised...
Page 231 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 26 - None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him...
Page 73 - For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God ; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate...
Page 117 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Page 79 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 28 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him?
Page 288 - And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship ; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
Page 117 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.