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NPNF2-07. Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
The Oration on the Holy Lights was preached on the Festival of the Epiphany 381, and was followed the next day by that on Baptism. In the Eastern Church this Festival is regarded as more particularly the commemoration of our Lord’s Baptism, and is accordingly one of the great days for the solemn ministration of the Sacrament.
NPNF1-04. Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Book XII. Faustus denies that the prophets predicted Christ. Augustin proves such prediction from the New Testament, and expounds at length the principal types of Christ in the Old Testament.
Table Talk by Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
LXIII. All the works of God are unsearchable and unspeakable, no human sense can find them out; faith only takes hold of them without human power or aid. No mortal creature can comprehend God in his majesty, and therefore did he come before us in the simplest manner, and was made man, ay, sin, death, and weakness.
Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 by Watson, Thomas (c. 1620-1686)
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:10 We are now come to the last beatitude: ‘Blessed are they which are persecuted ..
NPNF1-09. St. Chrysostom: On the Priesthood; Ascetic Treatises; Select Homilies and Letters; Homilies on the Statutes by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
an exhortation to theodore after his fall. ———————————— Letter I. “Oh! that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears!” Jer.
Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God by Bayly, Lewis (1565-1631)
PIETY. Those hindrances are chiefly seven:— I. An ignorant mistaking of the true meaning of certain places of the holy Scriptures, and some other chief grounds of Christian religion.
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Ignatius of Loyola, St (1491-1556)
IT IS A MEDITATION WITH THE THREE POWERS ON THE FIRST, THE SECOND AND THE THIRD SIN It contains in it, after one Preparatory Prayer and two Preludes, three chief Points and one Colloquy.
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
———————————— Introduction. Full details respecting Vigilantius, against whom this treatise, the result of a single night’s labour, is directed, may be found in a work on “Vigilantius and His Times,” published in 1844 by Dr.
Commentary on Corinthians - Volume 1 by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE The Sixteenth century was distinguished by a large and valuable accession of Expositors of the Sacred Volume. Mosheim reckons up not fewer than fifty-five writers, who, in the course of that century, devoted their labors, to a greater or less extent,…
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Edersheim, Alfred (1825-1889)
CHAPTER XV. ‘CRUCIFIED, DEAD, AND BURIED.’ (St. Matt. xxvii. 31-43: St. Mark xv. 20-32(a); St. Luke xxiii. 26-38; St. John xix. 16-24; St. Matt. xxviii. 44; St.