Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... scriptures . [ Under the first of these general heads , our author proves from the authority of the fathers , that , in the primitive times , bishops were elected by the general suffrage of the people , and that this election prevailed ...
... scriptures . [ Under the first of these general heads , our author proves from the authority of the fathers , that , in the primitive times , bishops were elected by the general suffrage of the people , and that this election prevailed ...
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... scripture , the heresies , the vanities thick sown through the volumes of Justin Martyr , Clemens , Origen , Tertullian , and others of eldest time ? Who would think him fit to write an apology for Christian faith to the Roman se- nate ...
... scripture , the heresies , the vanities thick sown through the volumes of Justin Martyr , Clemens , Origen , Tertullian , and others of eldest time ? Who would think him fit to write an apology for Christian faith to the Roman se- nate ...
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... scriptures , as all sufficient . ** ** [ This position is likewise confirmed by quotations from Cyprian , Lactantius , St. Austin , Ignatius , Atha- nasius , and Basil . ] But to draw to an end ; the second sort of those that may be ...
... scriptures , as all sufficient . ** ** [ This position is likewise confirmed by quotations from Cyprian , Lactantius , St. Austin , Ignatius , Atha- nasius , and Basil . ] But to draw to an end ; the second sort of those that may be ...
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... scripture only is able , it being the only book left us of divine authority , not in any thing more di- vine than in the allsufficiency it hath to furnish us , as with all other spiritual knowledge , so with this in par- ticular ...
... scripture only is able , it being the only book left us of divine authority , not in any thing more di- vine than in the allsufficiency it hath to furnish us , as with all other spiritual knowledge , so with this in par- ticular ...
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... scripture wanted a supplement , and were to be eked out , they cannot think any doubt resolved , and any doctrine confirmed , unless they run to that indigested heap and fry of authors , which they call antiquity . Whatsoever time , or ...
... scripture wanted a supplement , and were to be eked out , they cannot think any doubt resolved , and any doctrine confirmed , unless they run to that indigested heap and fry of authors , which they call antiquity . Whatsoever time , or ...
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