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... lived as a hermit , but pupils gathered about him , and tents and huts went up on every Abelites , or Abelonians , a small North hand . There his enthusiastic pupils helped African sect , mentioned by Augustine ( de him to build an ...
... lived as a hermit , but pupils gathered about him , and tents and huts went up on every Abelites , or Abelonians , a small North hand . There his enthusiastic pupils helped African sect , mentioned by Augustine ( de him to build an ...
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... lived by the oak of Mamre , at Hebron ( xiii . 18 ) . On his victorious return from his pursuit of the captors of his nephew Lot , he met Melchisedek , who blessed him , and to whom he paid tithes ( xiv . 20 ) . Sarai gave him Hagar as ...
... lived by the oak of Mamre , at Hebron ( xiii . 18 ) . On his victorious return from his pursuit of the captors of his nephew Lot , he met Melchisedek , who blessed him , and to whom he paid tithes ( xiv . 20 ) . Sarai gave him Hagar as ...
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... lived Bo- hemian deistic sect ( fl . 1782 ) which , pretend- ing to have the Abrahamic religion , rejected the Trinity and most of the other Christian doctrines , but accepted the Ten Command- ments and the Lord's Prayer . They were ...
... lived Bo- hemian deistic sect ( fl . 1782 ) which , pretend- ing to have the Abrahamic religion , rejected the Trinity and most of the other Christian doctrines , but accepted the Ten Command- ments and the Lord's Prayer . They were ...
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... lived as hermit near Nismes , nourish- ed by a hind , until the Visigothic king , hunt- ing , discovered him , and becoming famous he established the monastery of St. Giles on the spot where he had lived alone . He is the patron of ...
... lived as hermit near Nismes , nourish- ed by a hind , until the Visigothic king , hunt- ing , discovered him , and becoming famous he established the monastery of St. Giles on the spot where he had lived alone . He is the patron of ...
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... lived at Wittenberg ; returned to England ( 1535 ) ; lectured in divinity at Cambridge ; later practised medicine in London ; returned to Germany , 1540 ; became professor of the- ology first at Frankfort on the Oder , then at Leipzig ...
... lived at Wittenberg ; returned to England ( 1535 ) ; lectured in divinity at Cambridge ; later practised medicine in London ; returned to Germany , 1540 ; became professor of the- ology first at Frankfort on the Oder , then at Leipzig ...
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Page 273 - The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory ; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.
Page 22 - Persons therein; (4) The utter Depravity of Human Nature, in consequence of the Fall; (5) The Incarnation of the Son of God, His Work of Atonement for...
Page 398 - Moreover, that the images of Christ, of the Virgin Mother of God, and of the other saints, are to be had and retained particularly in temples, and that due honour and veneration are to be given them...
Page 164 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 58 - Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the King of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 231 - Shottesbrook, in the same neighbourhood, where he spent the rest of his days. He possessed, it appears, an estate in Ireland, but he allowed a relation to enjoy the principal part of the rent, only...
Page 251 - At the four seasons of the year ; being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whitsunday, after the 14th of September, and after the 13th of December; it being enjoined by a canon of the church, that no deacons or ministers be ordained or made but only on the Sundays immediately following these ember fasts.
Page 412 - Council approving, we teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed that his Church should be endowed...
Page 22 - The Unity of the Godhead, and the Trinity of persons therein. " 4. The utter depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall. " 5. The incarnation of the Son of God, his work of atonement for sinners of mankind, and his mediatorial intercession and reign.
Page 105 - It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness The memory of the dead passes into it.