The Church of the first three centuries: or, Notices of the lives and opinions of some of the early fathers, with special reference to the doctrine of the TrinityBritish and Foreign Unitarian Association, 1860 - 481 pages |
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Page 141 - Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Page 263 - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
Page 102 - The eternal regions ; lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold ; Immortal amaranth ! a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Page 26 - They shall not build, and another inhabit ; they shall not plant, and another eat : for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 152 - I will declare thy name to my brethren : in the midst of the church will I praise thee.
Page 207 - I believe in one God the Father Almighty . . . and in one Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 100 - The Son of man is come eating and drinking ; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners ! 35 But Wisdom is justified of all her children.
Page 173 - Son shall give up the kingdom to the Father, and God shall be all in all.
Page 63 - Then we bring them to some place where there is ' water ; and they are regenerated by the same way ' of regeneration by which we were regenerated : ' for they are washed with water in the name of ' God, the Father and Lord of all things, and of our ' Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit.
Page 45 - For she is. the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His goodness.