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NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
This, one of the longest of Jerome’s letters, was written to console Eustochium for the loss of her mother who had recently died. Jerome relates the story of Paula in detail; speaking first of her high birth, marriage, and social success at Rome, and then narrating her conversion and subsequent life as a Christian ascetic.
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
A letter of guidance to a widow on the best means of preserving her widowhood (according to Jerome ‘the second of the three degrees of chastity’). Furia had at one time thought of marrying again but eventually abandoned her intention and devoted herself to the care of her young children and her aged father.…
Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries by Lindsay, Thomas Martin (1843-1914)
CHAPTER I THE NEW TESTAMENT CONCEPTION OF THE CHURCH And I say also unto thee, that thou art Petros, and on this petra I will build My Church (Ecclesia); and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” Matt.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.—Pure Ethics. by Wuttke, Adolf (1819-1870)
SECTION LXXVIII. The revelation of the divine will to the moral subject, as given in the rational self-consciousness, is the conscience. This is not an originally ready power, but, as given at first only in germ, it must be developed,—stands in need of culture, primarily by God himself, and, in all after the first generation.
Institutes of the Christian Religion by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
CHAPTER 20. OF PRAYER—A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT. The principal divisions of this chapter are,—I. Connection of the subject of prayer with the previous chapters.
Institutes of the Christian Religion by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
CHAPTER 8. EXPOSITION OF THE MORAL LAW. This chapter consists of four parts.…
Sacred Poems and Hymns by Montgomery, James (1771-1854)
HYMN XLII. 8.8.8.8.8.8 James Montgomery God Omnipresent and Omniscient--Ps. cxxxix. Searcher of hearts! to Thee are known The inmost secrets of my breast At home, abroad, in crowds, alone, Thou mark'st my rising and my rest, My thoughts far off, through every maze, Source, stream, and issue,--all my ways.
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)
SERMON V. Preached at St. Mary-the-Virgin, on the Third Sunday in Lent, March 3rd, 1861. INTERPRETATION OF HOLY SCRIPTURE.—INSPIRED INTERPRETATION.—THE BIBLE IS NOT TO BE INTERPRETED LIKE ANY OTHER BOOK.—GOD, (NOT MAN,) THE REAL AUTHOR OF THE BIBLE.
Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots by Ryle, John Charles (1816-1900)
“And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. “And He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake Him, and say unto Him, Master, carest Thou not that we perish? “And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler by Augustine, Saint (354-430)
The mode of creation and the truth of Scripture. Augustine explores the relation of the visible and formed matter of heaven and earth to the prior matrix from which it was formed.
