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NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustine, with a Sketch of his Life and Work by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
, His Most Beloved Lord, and Brother and Fellow-Presbyter, Worthy of Being Honoured and Embraced with the Sincerest Affectionate Devotion, Augustin Sends Greeting.
Pneumatologia by Owen, John (1616-1683)
Duties inferred from the preceding discourse. The issue of all our inquiries is, how we may improve them unto obedience in the life of God; for “if we know them, happy are we if we do them,” and not otherwise.
Sermons of John Owen by Owen, John (1616-1683)
Sermon XII. Use 1. Of trial or examination. Hath Christ for many years now been in an especial manner come amongst us? Do these alterations relate to him and his interest, and so require universal holiness and godliness? Let us, then, in the first place, see whether, in their several stations, the men of this generation have walked answerable to such a dispensation.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 14: 1868 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"The just shall live by faith." Galatians 3:11. THE Apostle quotes from the Old Testament, from the second chapter of Habakkuk, at the fourth verse, and thus confirms one Inspired statement by another.
Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume II by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
"Now on the morrow, as they were on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour: and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance; and he beholdeth the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth:…
Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume II by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
... Christ. We thus see how God by the secret guidance of His Spirit, shaping his course by ways and ...
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 46: 1900 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORRD God had made." Genesis 3:1. WE understand, of course, that this verse refers to "that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan." The Samaritan Version reads, instead of the word, "serpent," "deceiver," or "liar." If this is not the genuine reading,…
Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. by Wace, Henry (1836-1924)
Honorius (1), Flavius Augustus, emperor, b. 384, d. 423. A full account of him is given in the Dict. of Classical Biogr. He was declared emperor of the West in 394 at Milan, where he remained almost uninterruptedly till 399.
Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume I by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
EVANGELISTIC WORK IN THE PHILISTINES' LAND. "But an angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza: the same is desert.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
The word asceticism comes from the Greek askesis which means practice, bodily exercise, and more especially, atheletic training. The early Christians adopted it to signify the practice of the spiritual things, or spiritual exercises performed for the purpose of acquiring the habits of virtue.