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Early Years of Christianity: The Apostolic Era by Pressensé, Edmund Dehault de (1824-1891)
AS he crossed the threshold of the citadel Paul entered on a captivity which was to terminate only with his life. Let us endeavor to follow him through its various phases.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
II. The devotion of individuals was the first circumstance which distinguished the Christians from the Platonists: the second was the authority of the church. The disciples of philosophy asserted the rights of intellectual freedom,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
When the six ambassadors of the French pilgrims arrived at Venice, they were hospitably entertained in the palace of St. Mark, by the reigning duke;…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
During the period of the crusades, the Greeks beheld with astonishment and terror the perpetual stream of emigration that flowed, and continued to flow,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
art III. At the distance of fourteen centuries, we may be satisfied with relating the military exploits of the conquerors of Rome,…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 14: 1868 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant which I commanded them to do; but they did them not." Jeremiah 11:8.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 62: 1916 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."—Isaiah 51:3.
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Stromata, or Miscellanies by Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.215)
Now I pass over other things in silence, glorifying the Lord. But I affirm that gnostic souls, that surpass in the grandeur of contemplation the mode of life of each of the holy ranks,…
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler by Augustine, Saint (354-430)
The eternal Creator and the Creation in time. Augustine ties together his memory of his past life, his present experience, and his ardent desire to comprehend the mystery of creation.
Practical Discourses on Regeneration by Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
SES. James I. 18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. I INTEND the words which I have now been reading, only as an introduction to that address to the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, with which I am now to conclude these lectures; and therefore shall not enter into any critical discussion, either of them,…