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Broken Bread by Follette, John Wright (1883-1966)
Chapter 4 The Prayers of the Prodigal I wish to share with you some of the thoughts suggested by reading once more the story of the prodigal son as told by Luke in the fifteenth chapter of his Gospel.
History of the Origins of Christianity. Book I. Life of Jesus. by Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892).
HE LIFE OF JESUS. The greatest difficulty which presents itself to the historian of Jesus is the value of the sources upon which such a history rests. On the one hand, what is the value of the Gospels called synoptic? On the other, what use is to be made of the fourth Gospel in writing the life of Jesus? On the first point all those who occupy themselves with these studies,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
Whether the bodies of the saints will be impassible after the resurrection? Objection 1: It seems that the bodies of the saints will not be impassible after the resurrection.
NPNF1-06. St. Augustine: Sermon on the Mount; Harmony of the Gospels; Homilies on the Gospels by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Sermon LIII. [CIII. Ben.] On the words of the Gospel, Luke x. 38, “And a certain woman named Martha received him into her house,” etc. 1. The words of our Lord Jesus Christ which have just been read out of the Gospel, give us to understand, that there is some one thing for which we must be making,…
Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by Alexander, William (1824-1911)
"If we receive the witness of men."—1 John v. 9. At an early period in the Christian Church the passage in which these words occur, was selected as a fitting Epistle for the First Sunday after Easter, when believers may be supposed to review the whole body of witness to the risen Lord and to triumph in the victory of faith.
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
CHAP. II. OBSERVATIONS ON OTHER PARTS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, CHIEFLY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THAT PROVE THE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN. Original depravity may well be argued, from wickedness being often spoken of in Scripture, as a thing belonging to the race of mankind, and as if it were a property of the species.
Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power Thereof, According to the Word of God by Cotton, John (1585–1652)
Keyes. And an explanation of Independency. WHAT that Church is, which is the first subject of the power of the keyes, and whether this Church have an independent power in the exercise thereof, though they be made two distinct questions, yet (if candidly interpreted) they are but one.
History of Dogma - Volume II by Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930)
1. The legal and political forms by which the Church secured herself against the secular power and heresy, and still more the lower moral standard exacted from her members in consequence of the naturalisation of Christianity in the world, called forth a reaction soon after the middle of the second century.
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
V.—Estimate of the Scope and Value of Jerome’s Writings. General. The writings of Jerome must be estimated not merely by their intrinsic merits, but by his historical position and influence.
Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. by Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”—Luke xi. 13. IN discoursing on these words, I proposed, First, To endeavour to shew what is comprehended in the gift of the Holy Spirit mentioned in my text, and how great a blessing and benefit it is.