The early Christians. 2 v

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Little, Brown, 1853 - Church history
 

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Page 146 - the meekest of men, thus friendly and mildly addressed himself to Paulinus : "Forasmuch as the Lord hath committed to me the care of these sheep, and thou hast received the care of others, and all the sheep agree in one common faith, let us join our flocks, my friend, and dispute no longer about primacy and government, but let us feed the sheep in common, and bestow a common care upon them.
Page 34 - The bishop, he is the minister of the word, the keeper of knowledge, the mediator between God and you in the several parts of your divine worship. He is the teacher of piety; and, next after God, he is your father, who has begotten you again to the adoption of sons by water and the Spirit. He is...
Page 319 - Apostles' aid also, which assuredly does not cease from its operation: and the strength of the foundation, on which the whole superstructure of the Church is reared, is not weakened by the weight of the temple that rests upon it. For the solidity of that faith which was praised in the chief of the Apostles is perpetual: and as that remains which Peter believed in Christ, so that remains which Christ instituted in Peter. For when, as has been read in the Gospel...
Page 390 - This we do appoint," declares the code of the Ripuarian Franks, "that all Franks, Burgundians, Alemans, and whoever there may be of any race residing within our realms, shall be bound by the law of the place where they were born." 37 Such separation of law from law and of nation from nation proves the reaction against the ancient centralization. But it proves as signally how far remote were men from the union on which modern liberty would one day be found to depend. By what manner of men the preparations...
Page 34 - One who will call him to an account, the Lord God, who put this administration into his hands, and thought him worthy of the priesthood of so great dignity.
Page 61 - That knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
Page 202 - Which when he had done, and put to his eyes, they were forthwith opened. Thence did the fame spread, thence Thy praises glowed, shone ; thence the mind of that enemy, though not turned to the soundness of believing, was yet turned back from her fury of persecuting. Thanks to Thee, O my God.
Page 389 - Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind; Thy tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind, Chopp'd by the axe, looks rough and little worth, But the sap lasts, — and still the seed we find Sown deep, even in the bosom of the North; So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth.
Page 201 - Then didst Thou by a vision discover to Thy forenamed Bishop where the bodies of Gervasius and Protasius the martyrs lay hid, (whom Thou hadst in Thy secret treasury stored uncorrupted so many years,) whence Thou mightest seasonably produce them to repress the fury of a woman, but an Empress. For when they were discovered and dug up, and with due honour translated to the Ambrosian Basilica, not only they who were vexed with unclean spirits...
Page 429 - Yet full before us, all the while, The shadowing pillar stays, The living waters brightly smile, Th' eternal turrets blaze. Yet Heaven is raining Angels' bread To be our daily food, And fresh, as when it first was shed, Springs forth the Saviour's blood.

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