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NPNF1-07. St. Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John; Homilies on the First Epistle of John; Soliloquies by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Tractate XLIX. Chapter XI. 1–54 1. Among all the miracles wrought by our Lord Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Lazarus holds a foremost place in preaching. But if we consider attentively who did it, our duty is to rejoice rather than to wonder.
Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness by Underhill, Evelyn (1875-1941)
I f we try to represent the course of Mysticism in Europe during the Christian period by the common device of a chronological curve, showing by its rises and falls as it passes across the centuries the absence or preponderance in any given epoch of mystics and mystical thought, we shall find that the great periods of mystical activity tend to correspond with the great periods of artistic, material,…
Pseudepigrapha: An Account of Certain Apocryphal Sacred Writings of the Jews and Early Christians by Deane, William John (1823-1895)
In compiling this account, I have availed myself of Bishop Laurence’s translation of the Book of Enoch, Dillmann’s Das Buch Henoch, Drummond’s The Jewish Messiah, the Cyclopædias, English and German, and the able Dissertation in Dr.
Selected Sermons of George Whitefield by Whitefield, George (1714-1770)
The Folly and Danger of Being Not Righteous Enough Ecclesiastes 7:16 — “Be not righteous overmuch, neither make thyself over- wise: why shouldst thou destroy thyself?” Nothing is more frequent, than while people are living in a course of sin, and after the fashion and manner of the world, there is not notice taken of them;…
Discourse on the Cleansing Virtue of Christ’s Blood by Charnock, Stephen (1628-1680)
... from the world. All hopes of regaining paradise had been lost, without it the authority of the law ...
Body of Divinity by Watson, Thomas (c. 1620-1686)
... of Paris, and he was content to lose his part in Paradise.' Lust first bewitches with pleasure, and ...
Reformed Doctrine of Predestination by Boettner, Loraine (1901-1990)
1. The Problem of Evil. 2. Instances in Which Sin Has Been Overruled for Good. 3. The Fall of Adam Was Included in the Divine Plan. 4. The Result of Adam's Fall. 5.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
R O M A N S. CHAP. XVI. Paul is now concluding this long and excellent epistle, and he does it with a great deal of affection. As in the main body of the epistle he appears to have been a very knowing man, so in these appurtenances of it he appears to have been a very loving man.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
S O N G O F S O L O M O N. CHAP. IV. In this chapter, I. Jesus Christ, having espoused his church to himself (ch. iii. 11), highly commends her beauty in the several expressions of it, concluding her fair, all fair, ver.
First Principles of the Reformation or the Ninety-five Theses and the Three Primary Works by Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
There are two passages which treat in the clearest manner of this subject, and at which we shall look,—the statements in the Gospels respecting the Lord’s Supper, and the words of Paul.