Show only:
Classics only
Sort by:
CCEL Search results
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
This, one of the longest of Jerome’s letters, was written to console Eustochium for the loss of her mother who had recently died. Jerome relates the story of Paula in detail; speaking first of her high birth, marriage, and social success at Rome, and then narrating her conversion and subsequent life as a Christian ascetic.
Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 by Arminius, Jacobus (1560-1609)
We declare, therefore, and we continue to repeat the declaration, till the gates of hell re-echo the sound, "that the Holy Spirit, by whose inspiration holy men of God have spoken this word, and by whose impulse and guidance they have, as his amanuenses, consigned it to writing;…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 27: 1881 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Yes, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord." Psalm 138:5. ACCORDING to the context, this is spoken of kings. "All the kings of the earth shall praise You, O Lord, when they hear the words of Your mouth.
History of Dogma - Volume IV by Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930)
In what follows I give merely a sketch; the details belong to Church history. Never again in the history of the Church has there been a victory so complete and so quickly secured as that at Nicæa, and no other decision of the Church approaches it in importance.
St. Paul the Traveler and the Roman Citizen by Ramsay, William Mitchell (1851-1939)
CHAPTER IV. THE MISSIONARY JOURNEY OF BARNABAS AND SAUL 1 CYPRUS AND SALAMIS. (XIII 4) THEY ACCORDINGLY, BEING SENT FORTH BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, CAME DOWN TO the harbour SELEUCEIA, AND THENCE SAILED AWAY TO CYPRUS; (5) AND WHEN THEY REACHED SALAMIS THEY BEGAN TO PROCLAIM THE WORD OF GOD IN THE SYNAGOGUES OF THE JEWS; AND THEY HAD JOHN ALSO AS A SUBORDINATE.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 24: 1878 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Behold, now is the day of salvation." 2 Corinthians 6:2. NONE can change the outward features of a day. The kings of the earth cannot command for themselves bright days nor inflict upon their enemies days of tempest.
Pneumatologia by Owen, John (1616-1683)
Sundry things preparatory to the work of conversion — Material and formal dispositions, with their difference — Things in the power of our natural abilities required of us in a way of duty — Internal,…
School of Obedience by Murray, Andrew (1828-1917)
. ‘Through the obedience of the One shall all the many be made righteous.… Know ye not that ye are servants of obedience unto righteousness?’ —Rom. 5:19; 6:16.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 48: 1902 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"I have declared my ways, and You heard me: teach me Your statutes." Psalm 119:26. WORLDLY men think very little of God. They live at a distance from Him. They have no communion with Him.
Sermons. Volume Third. by Manning, Henry Edward (1808-1892)
ROMANS viii. 19-21. “The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same, in hope.