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Faith's Checkbook by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
May 1 FULL OF SONG "The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands" Isa. 55:12 When sin is pardoned, our greatest sorrow is ended, and our truest pleasure begins.
Death of Death in the Death of Christ by Owen, John (1616-1683)
with the several ways whereby it is designed. What the Scripture affirms in this particular we laid down in the entrance of the whole discourse; which now, having enlarged in explication of our sense and meaning therein, must be more particularly asserted, by an application of the particular places (which are very many) to our thesis as before declared, whereof this is the sum:— “Jesus Christ,…
Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume I. The History of Creeds. by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
§ 75. The Reformation in Hungary and the Confession of Czenger. Literature. I. The Latin text of the Confessio Czengerina, or Hungarica, in the Corpus et Syntagma Conf., and in Niemeyer, pp.
On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers by Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768-1834)
SECOND SPEECH THE NATURE OF RELIGION You know how the aged Simonides, by long and repeated hesitation, put to silence the person who troubled him with the question, What are the gods? Our question, What is religion? is similar and equally extensive, and I would fain begin with a like hesitation.
Commentary on Revelation by Bullinger, Ethelbert William (1837-1913)
B. Chaps. xxi. 1— 5. This member corresponds with the member B (chaps. ii. and iii.). Those chapters are occupied specially with the people who will be on the earth during the Day of the Lord and in the Great Tribulation— concluding days of the old earth.
Selected Sermons of George Whitefield by Whitefield, George (1714-1770)
The Power of Christ's Resurrection Philippians 3:10 — “That I may know Him, and the power of his resurrection.” The apostle, in the verses before the text, had been cautioning the Philippians to “beware of the concision,” Judaizing teachers, who endeavored to subvert them from the simplicity of the gospel, by telling them, they still ought to be subject to circumcision,…
Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 by Arminius, Jacobus (1560-1609)
The apostle gives two appellations to the man—his person and his mind. (Strom. lib. 3, fol. 194.) TERTULLIAN "BUT," says the apostle, "though our outward man be destroyed," that is, the flesh, by the force of persecutions, "yet the inward man is renewed day by day," that is, the mind, by the hope of the promises.
St. Anselm's Book of Meditations and Prayers. by Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109)
[§ 38. The glories and the condescension of our Lord Jesus Christ.] Let Jesus of Nazareth, who, though innocent, was condemned by the Jews and fastened to the cross by the Gentiles, be worshipped by us Christians with the honours due to Him as God.
Creeds of Christendom, Volume III. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
[The Irish Articles— probably composed by the learned Archbishop James Ussher (then Professor of Divinity in Dublin), and adopted by the Archbishops, Bishops, and Convocation of the Irish Episcopal Church, and approved by the Viceroy in 1615, four years before the Synod of Dort—although practically superseded by the Thirty-nine Articles,…
Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques by Temple, Frederick (1821-1902)
ON THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE IT is a strange, though familiar fact, that great differences of opinion exist respecting the Interpretation of Scripture. All Christians receive the Old and New Testament as sacred writings, but they are not agreed about the meaning which they attribute to them.