The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion: With the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Primitive Rule of Faith ; Translated from Their Originals with Notes, for the Advantage Chiefly of English Readers, and a Preliminary Discourse Upon Each Author, Together with a Prefatory Dissertation about the Right Use of the Fathers, Volume 2W.B., 1709 |
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... better Hands ; for he feems made to Charm his Reader , and to carry him where he pleases . The Correctness and Beauty of his Language , I take to be much owing to his Profeffion ; by Converfing at Rome , and Pleading at the Bar , he in ...
... better Hands ; for he feems made to Charm his Reader , and to carry him where he pleases . The Correctness and Beauty of his Language , I take to be much owing to his Profeffion ; by Converfing at Rome , and Pleading at the Bar , he in ...
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... better of Calumny by the Primitive Art of living our felves into Reputation ; and that if Non- Refiftance be an Error , we are encompass'd with a cloud of Witneffes for the fame Doctrine , and may be fure we err in good Company , and ...
... better of Calumny by the Primitive Art of living our felves into Reputation ; and that if Non- Refiftance be an Error , we are encompass'd with a cloud of Witneffes for the fame Doctrine , and may be fure we err in good Company , and ...
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... better to ingratiate with fome great Men ; and others come with more fincerity , but not with lefs dangerous Prin- C 2 ciples ; ciples ; for they feem to look upon it , to the Octavius of Minucius Felix . 19 A Supplement of the ancient ...
... better to ingratiate with fome great Men ; and others come with more fincerity , but not with lefs dangerous Prin- C 2 ciples ; ciples ; for they feem to look upon it , to the Octavius of Minucius Felix . 19 A Supplement of the ancient ...
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... better figure than Chrifti- ans , they are offended , and immediately take leave of their new Religion . But he only is the perfect Chri- ftian , who loves God much more than he fears Hell ; who , fuppofing God fhou'd put it to him in ...
... better figure than Chrifti- ans , they are offended , and immediately take leave of their new Religion . But he only is the perfect Chri- ftian , who loves God much more than he fears Hell ; who , fuppofing God fhou'd put it to him in ...
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... better Succefs . That this Ark of Wood was a Type of that Salvation , which the true Believers in After - ages fhou'd obtain by the Crucify'd Jefus on a wooden Crofs ; that in the idolatrous World there were always fome righteous ...
... better Succefs . That this Ark of Wood was a Type of that Salvation , which the true Believers in After - ages fhou'd obtain by the Crucify'd Jefus on a wooden Crofs ; that in the idolatrous World there were always fome righteous ...
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Page 40 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 214 - For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ; ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 214 - Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Page 197 - In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not. left the light of the glorious Gofpel of Chrift, who is the image of God, fliould fhine onto them.
Page 368 - For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works.
Page 298 - For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.
Page 213 - And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come into the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the son of God...
Page 384 - If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Page 267 - For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly ; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Page 22 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.