The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 36Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1844 |
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... Clement of Alexandria , A. D. 200 , it began in that rich and luxurious city to be made matter of ostentation . Many , he says , disturbed the church by the brotherly kiss , without having the spirit of love in their hearts , and open ...
... Clement of Alexandria , A. D. 200 , it began in that rich and luxurious city to be made matter of ostentation . Many , he says , disturbed the church by the brotherly kiss , without having the spirit of love in their hearts , and open ...
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... Clement's comparison : " They who adorn only the outward , but neglect the ... Alexandria in giving ten thousand talents for a single garment , while the ... Clement of Alexandria is the great source of in- formation in regard to the ...
... Clement's comparison : " They who adorn only the outward , but neglect the ... Alexandria in giving ten thousand talents for a single garment , while the ... Clement of Alexandria is the great source of in- formation in regard to the ...
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... Clement of Alexandria , " is as capable of arriving at perfection as man ; " and her character , wrought upon by Christian influ- ences , speedily developed new germs of strength and beauty . The writings of the Fathers , dry and ...
... Clement of Alexandria , " is as capable of arriving at perfection as man ; " and her character , wrought upon by Christian influ- ences , speedily developed new germs of strength and beauty . The writings of the Fathers , dry and ...
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... Clement of Alexandria fre- quently refers , and distinguishes them from the heretical Gnostics 150 [ MARCH , Norton on the Gospels .
... Clement of Alexandria fre- quently refers , and distinguishes them from the heretical Gnostics 150 [ MARCH , Norton on the Gospels .
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... Clement of Alexandria , and Origen . Yet we suppose that , compared with the great body of Christians , that may be said to have possessed a higher intellectual cul- ture , such as it was . The term Gnostic , as used by Clement of ...
... Clement of Alexandria , and Origen . Yet we suppose that , compared with the great body of Christians , that may be said to have possessed a higher intellectual cul- ture , such as it was . The term Gnostic , as used by Clement of ...
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Page 104 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: r he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire...
Page 47 - If aught unworthy be my choice, From THEE if I would swerve ; Oh, let Thy grace remind me of the light Full early lost, and fruitlessly deplored ; Which, at this moment, on my waking sight Appears to shine, by miracle restored ; My soul, though yet confined to earth, Rejoices in a second birth...
Page 215 - In the establishment of these relations the rights of the original inhabitants were, in no instance, entirely disregarded, but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion...
Page 176 - His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low.
Page 234 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 48 - ... to bring before every human soul the collective experience of its whole past existence. And this, this, perchance, is the dread book of judgment, in whose mysterious hieroglyphics every idle word is recorded! Yea, in the very nature of a living spirit, it may be more possible that heaven and earth should pass away, than that a single act, a single thought, should be loosened or lost from that living chain of causes, to all whose links, conscious or unconscious, the free-will, our only absolute...
Page 24 - ... not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page 36 - I charge you before God and His blessed angels that you follow me no further than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 60 - PAGAN has been dead many a day; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.