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... books . Five editions of a work Against Marcion were issued between 200 and 207 , the third edi- tion being published in " the thirteenth year of Severus . " Then came the Soldier's Crown , Chastity , and Flight The Schools of the Faith 57.
... books . Five editions of a work Against Marcion were issued between 200 and 207 , the third edi- tion being published in " the thirteenth year of Severus . " Then came the Soldier's Crown , Chastity , and Flight The Schools of the Faith 57.
Page 105
... issued a protest against the practice : Against Those Who Offer Us Certain Works of Apollinarius Having Falsely Inscribed Them with the Names of Holy Fathers . He gave credit to APOLLINARIUS for The Partial Faith , a work usually ...
... issued a protest against the practice : Against Those Who Offer Us Certain Works of Apollinarius Having Falsely Inscribed Them with the Names of Holy Fathers . He gave credit to APOLLINARIUS for The Partial Faith , a work usually ...
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... issued a Defence . His Thesaurus is a work on the Trinity , written with remarkable lucidity in the form of a dialogue . In The Right Way , he made an elaborate survey of former heresies for the information of the Emperor Theodosius ...
... issued a Defence . His Thesaurus is a work on the Trinity , written with remarkable lucidity in the form of a dialogue . In The Right Way , he made an elaborate survey of former heresies for the information of the Emperor Theodosius ...
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... issued the one literary work of his life , the Monastic Rule . This was a complete code of monastic duty in seventy - three chapters ; it organised the earlier disciplines , and furnished a standard to the whole Church of the West ...
... issued the one literary work of his life , the Monastic Rule . This was a complete code of monastic duty in seventy - three chapters ; it organised the earlier disciplines , and furnished a standard to the whole Church of the West ...
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... issued controver- sial pamphlets against Cresconius and Gaudentius who were 1 R. E. Welsh , Classics of the Soul's Quest , pp . 28 ff . 2 Dictionary of Christian Biography , Vol . II . , p . 459 . 12 outstanding schismatics . Other of ...
... issued controver- sial pamphlets against Cresconius and Gaudentius who were 1 R. E. Welsh , Classics of the Soul's Quest , pp . 28 ff . 2 Dictionary of Christian Biography , Vol . II . , p . 459 . 12 outstanding schismatics . Other of ...
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Page 353 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye.
Page 132 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 499 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 473 - Our vows, our prayers, we now present Before thy throne of grace : God of our fathers ! be the God Of their succeeding race.
Page 2 - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth consume, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
Page 338 - Now was I come up in Spirit through the flaming sword, into the paradise of God. All things were new; and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter.
Page 425 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 352 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 387 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece, but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk ; and...
Page 6 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth ; as there are gods many, and lords many ; yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him ; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.