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On the Government of God: A Treatise Wherein Are Shown by Argument and by Examples Drawn from the Abandoned Society of the Times the Ways of God To by Salvian (c. 400- c. 480)
1. My description, at the end of the previous book, of the weakness and misery of the Romans, may seem to be at variance with my general proposition. I admitted that the very people who, as pagans, conquered and ruled the world, are being conquered and enslaved, now that they have become Christians.
History of the Origins of Christianity. Book VII. Marcus-Aurelius. by Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892).
INGS. Rome became every day more and more the capital of Christianity, and replaced Jerusalem as the religious centre of the human race. Civitas sacrosancta! That extraordinary city was at the culminating point of its grandeur; nothing could allow one to foresee the events which, in the third century,…
Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09. by Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
ST, CONSISTENT. But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.—John xx.
Law and the Saint by Pink, Arthur Walkington (1886-1952)
... :10. In the administration of His government, God acts upon immutable principles. That some obedient children are short ...
Fountain of Life Opened Up by Flavel, John (1627-1691)
... excellent an atonement to him! Hence the acting of our faith upon Christ for righteousness, the approaches of faith ...
Fountain of Life Opened Up by Flavel, John (1627-1691)
Words; the first of which is here illustrated. Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them;…
Canon of the Old and New Testaments Ascertained, or The Bible Complete without the Apocrypha and Unwritten Traditions by Alexander, Archibald (1772-1851)
... doctrine is to enthusiasm, and the consequence of acting upon it, would be to unsettle, rather than establish ...
Early Christian Doctrine by Pullan, Leighton (1865-1940)
CHAPTER II THE THEOLOGY OF ST. PAUL AND ST. JOHN St. Paul's teaching about the Flesh and Sin.-- To understand the whole system of St. Paul's doctrine it is necessary to study his spiritual experiences.
Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08. by Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
... was either angel or spirit, as the apostle tells us. (Acts xxiii. 7.) From whence by the way ... to under stand the general threatenings. And upon this account, the apostle to the Hebrews principally advanceth the new ...
Sermons. Volume The Fourth. by Manning, Henry Edward (1808-1892)
... the Spirit of God; but in its acting it depends upon our will. Now to make this somewhat ... it may be sustained by its proper acts and energies upon the objects of faith, upon God, and ...