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St. Paul the Traveler and the Roman Citizen by Ramsay, William Mitchell (1851-1939)
CHAPTER I THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 1. TRUSTWORTHINESS. The aim of our work is to treat its subject as a department of history and of literature. Christianity was not merely a religion, but also, a system of life and action;…
Faith's Checkbook by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
Nov. 1 PERFECTION AND PRESERVATION "Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it" I Thess. 5:24 What will He do? He will sanctify us wholly. See the previous verse.
Selected Sermons of George Whitefield by Whitefield, George (1714-1770)
Preached Before the Governor, and Council, and the House of Assembly, in Georgia, on January 28, 1770 Zech. 4:10 — “For who hath despised the Day of small things?” Men, brethren, and fathers, at sundry times and in diverse manners, God spake to the fathers by the prophets, before he spoke to us in these last days by his Son.
History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. Literature: For the election of a pope.—The text of the laws of Nicolas II. and Gregory X. is given in Mirbt: Quellen, 57 sqq., 146, Friedberg’s ed. of Gratian, I.
Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D. Vol. III by Manton, Thomas (1620-1677)
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.—2 Thes. II. 14. AFTER the doctrine of Antichrist, and God’s dreadful spiritual judgments on his abettors and followers, the apostle interposeth some matter of consolation to the Thessalonians; as before he comforted them from their election, so now from their vocation, Therefore, as we saw the doctrine of election set forth in the former verse,…
Music in the History of the Western Church by Dickinson, Edward
[129] CHAPTER V THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIAEVAL CHORUS MUSIC It has already been noted that the music of the Catholic Church has passed through three typical phases or styles, each complete in itself, bounded by clearly marked lines,…
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Edersheim, Alfred (1825-1889)
LES. (St. John viii. 12-59.) The startling teaching on ‘the last, the Great Day of the Feast’ was not the only one delivered at that season. The impression left on the mind is, that after silencing, as they thought, Nicodemus, the leaders of the Pharisees had dispersed.
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Edersheim, Alfred (1825-1889)
TEACHING OF THE LORD CONCERNING PURITY - THE TRADITIONS CONCERNING ‘HAND-WASHING’ AND ‘VOWS.’ (St. Matt. xv. 1-20; St. Mark vii. 1-23.) As we follow the narrative,…
Hymn as Literature by Reeves, Jeremiah Bascom
CHAPTER VI THE PERIOD OF THE WESLEYS Charles Wesley may be said to have taken up the tradition of English hymnody where Watts gave over his labor. Wesley was born in 1707, the year of the publication of Watts’s first hymn-book, and lived till 1788.
Doctrinal Divinity by Gill, John (1697-1771)
Chapter 2 Of the Exhibitions of the Covenant of Grace in the Patriarchal State. Through the administration of the covenant of grace may be considered in a three fold state; as in the patriarchal state, before the giving of the law; and then under the Mosaic dispensation; and last of all under the gospel dispensation: yet more agreeable to the apostle’s distinction of the first and second,…