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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.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans and Corinthians by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
‘The love of Christ constraineth us.’—2 COR. v. 14. It is a dangerous thing to be unlike other people. It is still more dangerous to be better than other people.
History of Dogma - Volume II by Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930)
2. The system of Origen. See the treatises of Huëtius (1668) reprinted by Lommatzsch. Thomasius, Origenes 1837. Redepenning, Origenes, 2 Vols. 1841-46. Denis, de la philosophie d’Origène, Paris 1884.
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,…
Doctrinal Divinity by Gill, John (1697-1771)
Chapter 3 Of The Creation Of Man. Man was made last of all the creatures, being the chief and masterpiece of the whole creation on earth, whom God had principally and first in view in making the world,…
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;…
Method of Grace in the Gospel Redemption by Flavel, John (1627-1691)
John 6:45. It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, cometh unto me. How necessary to our union with Jesus Christ, the application of the law, or coming home of the commandment to the heart of a sinner is, we have heard in the last discourse;…
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.
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,…