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Essay on the Mosaic Account of the Creation and Fall of Man by Lardner, Nathaniel (1684-1768)
THERE are not a few difficulties in the account, which Moses has given of the creation of the world, and of the formation, and temptation, and fall of our first parents.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF04. Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Book II.—Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws. I have so frequently had to construct my own text (by altering the reading or the punctuation of the Latin) in this book, that, for brevity’s sake,…
ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
On the Glory of Martyrdom. [Erasmus doubts as to the authorship, judging from the style.…
Essentials of Mysticism by Underhill, Evelyn (1875-1941)
The Mirror of Simple Souls — a rare work on the spiritual life, of which manuscripts exist in the British Museum, the Bodleian, and one or two other public libraries — has so far received little or no attention from students of religious literature.
Pseudepigrapha: An Account of Certain Apocryphal Sacred Writings of the Jews and Early Christians by Deane, William John (1823-1895)
. Among the apocryphal literature of the Old Testament which has been preserved to our time, the eighteen Psalms of Solomon, so called, are an interesting monument of later Judaism, giving glimpses of contemporary history and breathing Messianic hopes.
Nature and Causes of Apostasy from the Gospel by Owen, John (1616-1683)
II. The second spring or cause of defection from the gospel in any kind, is that spiritual darkness and ignorance which abides in the minds of men under the profession of the truth.
System of Doctrines, contained in Divine Relation, Explained and Defended. Shewing Their Consistence and Connexion with Each Other. Vol. II. by Hopkins, Samuel (1721-1803)
nd Judgment; and the eternal State of Happiness or Misery. I. WHEN man had sinned, and God had opened to him a new constitution, for the redemption of some of the human race, by a Saviour, by saying to the serpent, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: He shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel:” Gen.
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
GOD GLORIFIED IN MAN’S DEPENDENCE. 1 Cor. i. 29, 30, 31 That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
“Friday, April 1, 1743. I rode to Kaunaumeek, near twenty miles from Stockbridge, where the Indians live with whom I am concerned, and there lodged on a little heap of straw.
Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness by Underhill, Evelyn (1875-1941)
W e now come to that eternal battle-ground, the detailed discussion of those abnormal psychic phenomena which appear so persistently in the history of the mystics.