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Conferences of John Cassian by Cassian, John (360-435)
How the promise of an hundredfold in this life is made to those whose renunciation is perfect. FURTHER also that recompense of reward, wherein the Lord promises an hundredfold in this life to those whose renunciation is perfect, and says: "And everyone that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for My name's sake,…
Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Madame Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Mothe (1647-1717)
After these adventures and others which it would be tedious to recite, I arrived at Verceil. I went to the inn, where I was badly received. I sent for Father La Combe, who I thought had been already apprised of my coming, by the ecclesiastic whom I had sent before, and who would be of so much service to me.
Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Madame Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Mothe (1647-1717)
Scarcely had I arrived at Paris when I readily discovered the black designs entertained against both Father La Combe and me. Father La Mothe who conducted the whole tragedy,…
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Forasmuch as this doctrine is vindicated even on the principle of judicial retribution,…
ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. At times, however, they perceive that they are wicked, and praise the condition of the former ages, and conjecture that justice is absent because of their characters and deserts; for,…
Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I. by Beveridge, William (1637-1708)
I believe that after a short separation, my soul and body shall be united together again, in order to appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, and be finally sentenced according to my deserts.
Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. by Wace, Henry (1836-1924)
Gratianus (5) (Flavius Gratianus Augustus), emperor 375–383, son of Valentinian, was born at Sirmium in 359 while his father was still an officer in the army.
Secret of Guidance by Meyer, Frederick Brotherton (1847-1929)
Chapter VII HOW TO BEAR SORROW You are passing through a time of deep sorrow. The love on which you were trusting has suddenly failed you, and dried up like a brook in the desert ‑‑ now a dwindling stream, then shallow pools, and at last drought.
Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations - Volume 4 by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
9. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
Comfort for Christians by Pink, Arthur Walkington (1886-1952)
CHAPTER 10 God Securing His Inheritance "He found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about. He instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye" (Deuteronomy 32:10).