The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 39

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F.C. & J. Rivington, 1860
 

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Page 309 - The Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, [and] of one substance with the Father, took man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance...
Page 416 - Wherefore if they shall say unto you. Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 244 - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading ; but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges...
Page 374 - Thus the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die" before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Page 480 - It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: if we suffer, we shall also reign with him...
Page 244 - ... but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges ; and knowing little history, either of nature or time; did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books.
Page 416 - Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there ; believe it not.
Page 459 - RECEIVE the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 139 - Kings with their armies did flee, and were discomfited : and they of the household divided the spoil.
Page 374 - ... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.

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