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Abandonment to Divine Providence by de Caussade, Jean-Pierre, S.J. (1675-1751)
SECTION III.—The Work of our Sanctification. How much more easily sanctity appears when regarded from this point of view. If the work of our sanctification presents, apparently, the most insurmountable difficulties, it is because we do not know how to form a just idea of it.
DEMONSTRATION of the Gross and Fundamental Errors by Law, William (1686-1761)
[Dem-1] My design (worthy reader) is not to lay before you all the errors and false reasonings of this author throughout his whole treatise. This would lead you into too much wrangle, and the multiplicity of things disputed, would take your eye from the chief point in question, and so make the matter less edifying to you.
Evidences of the Christian Religion, with Additional Discourses . . . by Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
—Inter silvas academi quærere verum. Hor. lib. II. epist. 2. v. 45. To search out truth in academic groves. THE course of my last speculation See Spectator, Vol.
History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Volume IV. by Bangs, Nathan (1778-1862)
CHAPTER 10 From the close of the General Conference of 1828 to the beginning of the General Conference of 1832 Our last volume closed with an account of the doings of the General Conference of 1828, including a brief history of the radical controversy, and its results.
Helps to the Study of the Bible by Oxford University Press
ALEPH (A). The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Psalm cxix. is divided into twenty-two portions, according to the number of Hebrew letters, one of which is prefixed to each portion, the verses in the original beginning with the Hebrew letter which heads the portion in which they are classed.
Life of William Carey, Shoemaker and Missionary by Smith, George (1833-1919)
CHAPTER XII WHAT CAREY DID FOR SCIENCE--FOUNDER OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA Carey’s relation to science and economics--State of the peasantry--Carey a careful scientific observer--Specially a botanist--Becomes the friend of Dr.
Life of the late Rev. Mr. John Flavel by Flavel, John (1627-1691)
, minister of Dartmouth. Those of the name of Flavel derive their pedigree from one who was the third great officer that came over with William the Conqueror; but this worthy Divine was far from that weakness and vanity to boast of any thing of that nature, being of the poet's mind, who said, Et genus, et proavos, et quae non fecimus ipsi,…
Revision Revised by Burgon, John William (1813-1888)
[19] GOD was manifested in the flesh Shown To Be The True Reading Of 1 Timothy III. 16. A Dissertation. In conclusion, you insist on ripping up the discussion concerning 1 Tim.
Sermons on Several Occasions by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Sermon 37 (text from the 1872 edition) The Nature of Enthusiasm “And Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself.” Acts 26:24. 1. And so say all the world, the men who know not God, of all that are of Paul’s religion: of every one who is so a follower of him as he was of Christ.
History of Dogma - Volume IV by Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930)
ystem. Origen had drawn up a system of Christian theology based on the four principles, God, the world, freedom, and Holy Scripture, and depending on the old Catholic Church doctrine.