Superstitions of the Churches, Ancient and ModernTubbs and Brook, 1874 - 202 pages |
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Apostle Athanasian Creed atonement Band of Hope believe blessing body character Christian Church circumstances cloth concerning conscience creed darkness dead death declaration Deity devil disciples Divine doctrine eternal everlasting evident evil existence fact faith Father Fcap fire gilt edges glory God's Gospel happiness hath heart heaven hell highest holy honour human idea influence Jehovah Jesus Christ Jews John kingdom limbus lives Lord Jesus Lord's day man's mankind matter means ment mercy mind miracle nature never Paray-le-Monial passage pilgrimages pilgrims plain preached Price 1d probably proof punishment purgatory racter reason rejected relation religion religious result resurrection revelation Roman Catholic Sabbath day saints salvation Satan Saviour scarcely Scrip Scriptures seems shalt shew simply sinner sins Son of God soul spirit Strange Tales supernatural superstition suppose surely teaching Testament thee things thou thought tion true truth unto vile bodies word worship
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Page 38 - Son of God, Begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made...
Page 167 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD...
Page 96 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 38 - The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son; neither made nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
Page 129 - Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge.
Page 8 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Page 111 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God ; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit ; By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison...
Page 95 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis?
Page 90 - For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 137 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...