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Selected Sermons of George Whitefield by Whitefield, George (1714-1770)
The Care of the Soul Urged as the One Thing Needful Luke 10:42 — “But one thing is needful.” It was the amiable character of our blessed Redeemer, that “he went about doing good,” this great motive, which animated all his actions, brought him to the house of his friend Lazarus, at Bethany, and directed his behavior there.
Pseudepigrapha: An Account of Certain Apocryphal Sacred Writings of the Jews and Early Christians by Deane, William John (1823-1895)
. In addition to the Book of Baruch, a translation of which is contained in the Apocrypha of our English Bibles, there had from old time been known to exist a certain document in the Syrian language, called “The Epistle of Baruch the scribe to the nine-and-a-half tribes beyond the Euphrates.” There exists also an Ethiopic work called by Dillmann, “Reliqua verborum Baruchi haud apocrypha,…
Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Enti by Burgon, John William (1813-1888)
VII. The Essay which brings up the rear in this very guilty volume is from the pen of the “Rev. Benjamin Jowett, M.A., [Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, and] Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford,”—“a gentleman whose high personal character and general respectability seem to give a weight to his words,…
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
SERMON II. Preached at Enfield, July 8th, 1741, at a time of great awakenings, and attended with remarkable impressions on many of the hearers. SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD.
Discourse of the Word, the Instrument of Regeneration by Charnock, Stephen (1628-1680)
I have chosen this text to treat of the instrument of the new birth. The apostle having advised them (verse 13, 'But let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted to evil, neither tempts he any man') not to charge God as the author of any temptation to evil, showing it to be contrary to the nature of God, who is infinite goodness and righteousness;…
History of Dogma - Volume VI by Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930)
3. On the History of Ecclesiastical Science. In connection with the history of piety we have been already obliged to enter upon the history of theology; for piety and theology are most intimately related in the Middle Ages.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
But you say it is not creditable to subvert the customs handed down to us from our fathers. And why, then, do we not still use our first nourishment, milk,…
Pneumatologia by Owen, John (1616-1683)
. After a youth spent in vicious excess, Augustine was converted to the faith of the gospel, and admitted into the church by Ambrose at Milan, a. d. 387. Ten years afterwards he wrote his “Confessions,” in thirteen books; of which ten are occupied with a detail of his sinful conduct in early life, the circumstances of his conversion,…
History of the Christian Church, Volume III: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 311-600 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. The writings of Jerome, which fill eleven folios in the edition of Vallarsi, may be divided into exegetical, historical, polemic doctrinal, and polemic ethical works, and epistles.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 31: 1885 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"The day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel."—Romans 2:16. IT IS impossible for any of us to tell what it cost the apostle Paul to write the first chapter of the epistle to the Romans.