Chapters of Early English Church History

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Clarendon Press, 1897 - 460 pages
 

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Page 449 - Helps to the Study of the Bible, comprising Introductions to the several Books, the History and Antiquities of the Jews, the results of Modern Discoveries, and the Natural History of Palestine, with copious Tables, Concordance and Indices, and a series of Maps. Prices in various sizes and bindings from 3s. to 50«.
Page 447 - Facsimiles of the Fragments hitherto recovered of the Book of Ecclesiasticus in Hebrew.
Page 397 - Thou shalt send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created : and Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Page 157 - It brought religion straight home to men's hearts by sheer power of love and self-sacrifice: it held up before them, in the unconscious goodness and nobleness of its representatives, the moral evidence for Christianity. It made them feel what it was to be taught and cared for, in the life spiritual, by pastors who before all things were the disciples and ministers of Christ, — whose chief and type was a St. Aidan.
Page 35 - We beseech thee, O Lord, in all thy mercy, that thy anger and wrath be turned away from this city, and from thy holy house, because we have sinned. Hallelujah.
Page 454 - Ancient Liturgy of the Church of England, according to the uses of Sarum, York, Hereford, and Bangor, and the Roman Liturgy arranged in parallel columns, with preface and notes. By W. MASKELL, MA Third Edition. 8vo. 15*.
Page 89 - Haec est nox, quae a nobis propter adventum regis ac dei nostri pervigilio celebratur: cujus noctis duplex ratio est, quod in ea et vitam turn recepit, cum passus est, et postea regnum orbis terrae recepturus est.
Page 286 - ... under his care he was brought up first at Wearmouth and afterwards at Jarrow. At Jarrow he passed the rest of his life in study and devotion, an uneventful period of about fiftyfour years. "As we look back upon these years, so unmarked in regard to his personal history, and conspicuous for nothing which could associate him with what may be called the political history of his church, we seem to be looking, not on a landscape of grand and varied outline, but on some rich level land watered by soft...
Page 44 - ... human hearts. He was not a Boniface, not an Anskar, not a Xavier, not a Martyn. His monastic training, carried on probably until he was past middle life, had tended to stiffen his mind and narrow his range of thought ; something of smallness, something of self-consciousness, some want of consideration for unfamiliar points of view, and different forms of experience, may be discerned in him without injustice, and thus explained without any ungenerous forgetfulness of the better side of the monastic...
Page 17 - the most truculent of all enemies " and made it a point of religion " to torture their captives rather than to put them to ransom...

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