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Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
CONSIDER the lively examples set us by the saints, who possessed the light of true perfection and religion, and you will see how little, how nearly nothing, we do.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
———————————— 1. Although Cyprian, the devout priest [Here put for the chief in the sacerdocy. See p. 268, infra.] and glorious witness of God,…
ANF08. The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementia, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Age by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
———————————— In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God.…
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Book IX. 1. In the last book we treated of the indistinguishable nature of God the Father and God the Son, and demonstrated that the words, I and the Father are One St.
NPNF2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
in Cappadocia to Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium. These canons of St. Basil’s are annotated by Zonaras, Balsamon and Aristenus, and of them there is also the Ancient Epitome which will be found in Beveridge (Synod., Tom.
Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D. Vol. III by Manton, Thomas (1620-1677)
ich hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation, and good hope, through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.—2 Thes.
Lord's Prayer by Watson, Thomas (c. 1620-1686)
... he may save. (3) God being a Father, if he desert and hide his face from his child ...
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Heliodorus, originally a soldier, but now a presbyter of the Church, had accompanied Jerome to the East, but, not feeling called to the solitary life of the desert, had returned to Aquileia.
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Edersheim, Alfred (1825-1889)
(St. Matthew i. 25; St. Luke ii. 1-20.) SUCH then was ‘the hope of the promise made of God unto the fathers,’ for which the twelve tribes, ‘instantly serving (God) night and day,’ longed - with such vividness, that they read it in almost every event and promise; with such earnestness, that it ever was the burden of their prayers; with such intensity,…
NPNF1-08. St. Augustine: Exposition on the Book of Psalms by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. Lat. LXXXV. A sermon to the people at Carthage, delivered on the vigil of a festival, perhaps of St. Cyprian. 1. No greater gift could God have given to men than in making His Word, by which He created all things, their Head, and joining them to Him as His members: that the Son of God might become also the Son of man, one God with the Father, one Man with men;…