The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 1

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Johann Jakob Herzog, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson, Charles Colebrook Sherman, George William Gilmore
Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1908 - Theology
 

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Page 283 - God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father ; By whom all things were made : Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man...
Page 289 - And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD : neither shall it come to mind : neither shall they remember it ; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
Page 224 - God will have mercy on them, and bring them again into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like to the first, until the time of that age be fulfilled ; and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and the house of God shall be built in it for ever, with a glorious building, as the prophets have spoken thereof. And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall bury their idols.
Page 173 - Missionaries, and the designation of their fields of labor, shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Managers of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church...
Page xxiii - English alone a large number of select sources are given in H. Gee and WJ Hardy, Documents Illustrative of English Church History, London, 1896 (covers the period 314-1700).
Page 362 - An Answer to some Considerations on the spirit of Martin Luther, and the original of the Reformation.
Page 94 - Jesus saith, Ye ask who are those that draw us to the kingdom, if the kingdom is in heaven? .... the fowls of the air, and all the beasts that are under the earth or upon the earth, and the fishes of the sea; these are they which draw you, and the kingdom of heaven is within you ; and whoever shall know himself shall find it.
Page 94 - Let not him who seeks . . . cease until he finds, and when he finds, he shall be astonished, and astonished, he shall reach the kingdom, and having reached the kingdom, he shall rest...
Page 289 - God was enthroned over that which was binding upon the people to which nothing could be added and from which nothing could be taken 2. Meaning away. The Hebrew word kapporeth of Kappo- is best taken in the sense of " cover,
Page 177 - Service. The rule of Prayer is to pray daily for the spread of Christ's Kingdom among young men and for God's blessing upon the labors of the Brotherhood.