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NPNF1-05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Chapter 11 [VII.]—Victor Implies that the Soul Had a “State” And “Merit” Before Incarnation. Would you hesitate yourself to reprobate what he has said concerning the soul? “You will not have it,” he says, “that the soul contracts from the sinful flesh the health, to which holy state you can see it in due course pass by means of the flesh,…
NPNF1-05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... salvation and perpetual gladness, and the possession formerly lost of Paradise, are now coming with the passing away ...
Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
ONE cold afternoon in the end of October, when Mistress Croale was shutting up her shop in the market, and a tumbler of something hot was haunting her imagination, Gibbie came walking up the long gallery with the light hill-step which he never lost, and startled her with a hand on her shoulder, making signs that she must come with him.
NPNF2-07. Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... Herodotus and the other ancient authors. But Milton, Paradise Lost, V. 272— ‘A phœnix gaz’d by ...
Body of Divinity by Watson, Thomas (c. 1620-1686)
Q-19: WHAT IS THE MISERY OF THAT ESTATE WHEREINTO MAN FELL? A: All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.
Holy Living by Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)
But it is not mere dying that is pretended by some as the cause of their impatient mourning: but that the child died young, before he knew good and evil, his right hand from his left, and so lost all his portion of this world, and they know not of what excellency his portion in the next shall be.
History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. "This royal throne of kings, this sceptr’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection, and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house,…
Hymn as Literature by Reeves, Jeremiah Bascom
... .” The morning hymn in the fifth book of “Paradise Lost,” beginning with line 138, is not strictly hymnal ...
To Be Near Unto God by Kuyper, Abraham (1837-1920)
69 "BY MY GOD I LEAP OVER A WALL." When God had created the first human pair, no dangers threatened them in Paradise. Neither the elements of nature, nor wild animals, nor climate, nor any disease, exposed them to any risks.
Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois by Blois, Louis of, (1506-1566)
Thou must on no account lose confidence, because thou art imperfect; for God cannot reject a man of good will. He intimately knows thy weakness, and mercifully consoles thee in the Gospel, where the holy Angels are related to have sung at the Birth of Christ those words most ardently longed for: “Peace to men of good will” (St.