The British CriticF. and C. Rivington, 1826 |
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... appears , therefore , that the Fa- thers are valuable , not only as telling us what the early Christians believed , but because it is to them we must go for the rites and ceremonies of the church , for its prosperous and adverse ...
... appears , therefore , that the Fa- thers are valuable , not only as telling us what the early Christians believed , but because it is to them we must go for the rites and ceremonies of the church , for its prosperous and adverse ...
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... appear to have so little remaining to us of the three first centuries , yet much valuable information might still be collected , if the writings of the ante - nicene Fathers were searched with this view . The work now before us , which ...
... appear to have so little remaining to us of the three first centuries , yet much valuable information might still be collected , if the writings of the ante - nicene Fathers were searched with this view . The work now before us , which ...
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... appears well worthy of observation , and exactly expresses our own opinion upon the subject : " The assertion may appear paradoxical , but is never- theless true , that the value of Tertullian's writings to the theolo- gical student ...
... appears well worthy of observation , and exactly expresses our own opinion upon the subject : " The assertion may appear paradoxical , but is never- theless true , that the value of Tertullian's writings to the theolo- gical student ...
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... appears to us to have fallen , we should say , that instead of forming the design of an original work , he has adhered too closely to the plans of others . Thus , though Mosheim's division of ecclesiastical history into external and ...
... appears to us to have fallen , we should say , that instead of forming the design of an original work , he has adhered too closely to the plans of others . Thus , though Mosheim's division of ecclesiastical history into external and ...
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... appears to have quoted Gibbon from memory ; but his words are these : From the first of the Fathers to the last of the Popes a succession of miracles is con- tinued without interruption , and the progress of superstition was so gradual ...
... appears to have quoted Gibbon from memory ; but his words are these : From the first of the Fathers to the last of the Popes a succession of miracles is con- tinued without interruption , and the progress of superstition was so gradual ...
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