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Rent Veil by Bonar, Horatius (1808-1889)
. There was no veil in Paradise between man and God. There were three places or regions; the outer earth, Eden, and "the Garden of Eden," or Paradise; but there was no veil nor fence between, hindering access from the one to the other.
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,…
Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa by Catherine of Genoa, St. (1447-1510)
How the desire was given her to receive holy communion, and of its precious effects in her; of her sufferings when she did not receive, and how it seemed to her that she had lost faith, and walked by sight.
NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustine, with a Sketch of his Life and Work by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
an, and Refers to His Conversion and Death, as Well as that of Nebridius. 5. Verecundus was wasted with anxiety at that our happiness, since he, being most firmly held by his bonds, saw that he would lose our fellowship.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 57: 1911 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... a Milton to sing, as he sang in Paradise Lost, the riches of the creating God! The riches ...
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,…
Name in Heaven, the Truest Ground of Joy, on Luke x. 20. and the Power of Grace in Weaning the Heart from the World, on Psal. cxxxi. 1. by Mead, Matthew (1629-1699)
... fell, lose their Grace? Did not Adam, in Paradise, lose his? These had true Grace, and yet they ...
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
Whether in the state of innocence man had need of food? Objection 1: It would seem that in the state of innocence man did not require food. For food is necessary for man to restore what he has lost.
History of the Origins of Christianity. Book III. Saint Paul. by Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892).
... Jerusalem resemble the images of a far-off paradise, lost in a mysterious mist. On the other hand ...
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.
