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Provincial Letters by Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
Paris, July 3, 1656 SIR, I shall use as little ceremony with you as the worthy monk did with me when I saw him last. The moment he perceived me, he came forward, with his eyes fixed on a book which he held in his hand, and accosted me thus: "'Would you not be infinitely obliged to any one who should open to you the gates of paradise?…
Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D. Vol. II by Manton, Thomas (1620-1677)
A WEDDING SERMON. And brought her unto the man.—Gen. II. 22. THE words belong to the story of the first marriage that ever was celebrated in the world, between the first man and the first woman; a marriage made by God himself in paradise, who, when he built the rib taken from Adam into a woman, from a builder becometh her bringer: He brought her unto the man, saith the text.
ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Five Books Against Marcion by Tertullianus, Quintas Septimus Florens (c. 160-c. 225)
Chapter XII.—The Eternal Home in Heaven. Beautiful Exposition by Tertullian of the Apostle’s Consolatory Teaching Against the Fear of Death, So Apt to Arise Under Anti-Christian Oppression.
Prescription Against Heretics by Tertullianus, Quintas Septimus Florens (c. 160-c. 225)
Chapter XII.—The Eternal Home in Heaven. Beautiful Exposition by Tertullian of the Apostle’s Consolatory Teaching Against the Fear of Death, So Apt to Arise Under Anti-Christian Oppression.
NPNF1-03. On the Holy Trinity; Doctrinal Treatises; Moral Treatises by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
sedness, But Remembers God and the Rules of Righteousness. The Unchangeable Rules of Right Living are Known Even to the Ungodly. 21. And of this certainly it feels no doubt, that it is wretched, and longs to be blessed nor can it hope for the possibility of this on any other ground than its own changeableness for if it were not changeable, then, as it could not become wretched after being blessed,…
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristid by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
———————————— Here Begins the Vision of Saint Paul the Apostle. “But I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord:…
Proslogium; Monologium; An Appendix in Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilon; and Cur Deus Homo by Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109)
Whether there will be more holy men than evil angels. Anselm. If the angels, before any of them fell, existed in that perfect number of which we have spoken, then men were only made to supply the place of the lost angels; and it is plain that their number will not be greater.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 18: 1872 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"With His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5. EVER since the Fall, healing has been the chief necessity of manhood. There was no physician in Paradise, but outside that blissful enclosure professors of the healing art have been precious as the gold of Ophir.
General Epistles: James, Peter, and Judas by Moffat, James, D.D. (1870-1944)
... depicted graphically (Milton’s famous expansion is in Paradise Lost, ii. 648 f.). James does not enter into ...
Morning and Evening: Daily Readings by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
Go To Morning Reading “The king’s garden.” Nehemiah 3:15 Mention of the king’s garden by Nehemiah brings to mind the paradise which the King of kings prepared for Adam.