An Impartial and Succinct History of the Rise, Declension and Revival of the Church of Christ: From the Birth of Our Saviour to the Present Time with Faithfull Characters of the Principal Personages, Ancient and Modern, Том 1

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J. Mawman, 1800
 

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Страница 195 - We are dead to all ideas of worldly honour and dignity ; nothing is more foreign to us than political concerns ; the whole world is our republic. " We are a body united in one bond of religion, discipline, and hope. We meet in our assemblies for prayer.
Страница 110 - With this view," continues Tacitus,^ " he inflicted the most exquisite tortures on those men who, under the vulgar appellation of Christians, were already branded with deserved infamy. They derived their name and origin from Christ, who, in the reign of Tiberius, had suffered death by the sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate.
Страница 417 - The societies which were instituted in the cities of the Roman empire were united only by the ties of faith and charity. Independence and equality formed the basis of their internal constitution.
Страница 299 - Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghoft, be with you all, Amen.
Страница 194 - I cannot solicit these things from any other than from Him from whom, I know, I shall obtain them, because he alone can do these things, and I am he who may expect them of him, being his servant, who worship him alone, and lose my life for his service.
Страница 110 - Judea, the first seat of this mischievous sect, but was even introduced into Rome, the common asylum which receives and protects whatever is impure, whatever is atrocious. The confessions of those who were seized discovered a great multitude of their accomplices, and they were all convicted, not so much for the crime of setting fire to the city, as for their hatred of human kind.
Страница 159 - He may have chosen the weak things of this world to confound the mighty, and the foolish to confound the wise...
Страница xv - ... not monopolized by any one body of professing Christians, but essentially a spiritual church ; and consisting only and equally of those who, in every denomination, love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Respecting the administration of this church, I am not convinced that the Lord of life and glory left any precise regulations. His kingdom could alike subsist under any species of government; and having nothing to do with this world, was, in externals, to be regulated by existing circumstances....
Страница 93 - Jesus," says an eminent Episcopalian, "who is a partaker of the grace of God in. truth, is a member of the true church, to whatever particular denomination of christians he may belong ; without this, Popes, Bishops, Presbyters, Pastors or Deacons, are but the limbs of Antichrist, and of the synagogue of Satan, and belong to no church which the great Shepherd and Bishop of souls will acknowledge for his own...
Страница xv - Having, through divine mercy, obtained grace to be faithful — in providence received my education — and been called to minuter in the Church of England, I have embraced and fubfcribed her articles, ex ammo, and have continued to prefer an epifcopal mode of government ; and I am content herein to abide with God, till I can find one more purely apoftolic.

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