An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern: From the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century : in which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power, are Considered in Their Connection with the State of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe During that Period, Volume 2Samuel Etheridge, 1810 - Church history |
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... condemned , many , to avoid the imputation of his errors , and to prevent their being counted among the number of his followers , adopted openly the philosophy of Aristotle , which was entirely differ- ent from that of Origen . The ...
... condemned , many , to avoid the imputation of his errors , and to prevent their being counted among the number of his followers , adopted openly the philosophy of Aristotle , which was entirely differ- ent from that of Origen . The ...
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... condemned the custom of performing vigils in them . He asserted , and in- deed with reason , that the custom of burning ta- pers at the tombs of the martyrs in broad day , was imprudently borrowed from the ancient supersti- tion of the ...
... condemned the custom of performing vigils in them . He asserted , and in- deed with reason , that the custom of burning ta- pers at the tombs of the martyrs in broad day , was imprudently borrowed from the ancient supersti- tion of the ...
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... condemned him to ban- ishment . The people of Constantinople , who were tenderly attached to their pious and worthy bishop , rose in a tumultuous manner , and prevented the execution of this unrighteous sentence . " When this tumult was ...
... condemned him to ban- ishment . The people of Constantinople , who were tenderly attached to their pious and worthy bishop , rose in a tumultuous manner , and prevented the execution of this unrighteous sentence . " When this tumult was ...
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... condemned them , were the same in effect ; that their difference was in words only , and that the whole blame of this unhappy controversy was • See Garnier's edition of the works of Marius Mercator , tom . ii . p . 286. See also the ...
... condemned them , were the same in effect ; that their difference was in words only , and that the whole blame of this unhappy controversy was • See Garnier's edition of the works of Marius Mercator , tom . ii . p . 286. See also the ...
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... His offers of ac- commodation were refused ; his explanations were not read ; his sub- mission was rejected , and he was condemned unheard . ་ PART II . of nestorian- council of E- x . 68 INTERNAL HISTORY OF THE CHURCH .
... His offers of ac- commodation were refused ; his explanations were not read ; his sub- mission was rejected , and he was condemned unheard . ་ PART II . of nestorian- council of E- x . 68 INTERNAL HISTORY OF THE CHURCH .
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Page 409 - And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled : and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Page 409 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them. And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God...
Page 246 - Homiliarium of Charlemagne ; and which being followed as a model by many productions of the same kind, composed by private persons, from a principle of pious zeal, contributed much (says Mosheim) to nourish the indolence 'and to perpetuate the ignorance of a worthless clergy.
Page 333 - But this consequence was quickly retorted upon those that imagined it; for they who denied the metamorphosis of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ...
Page 84 - These monks looked upon the doctrines which were commonly received, ' concerning the original corruption of human nature, and the necessity of divine grace to enlighten the understanding, and purify the heart, as prejudicial to the progress of holiness and virtue, and tending to lull mankind in a presumptuous and fatal security.
Page 157 - It is to be observed further, that the gross ignorance, under which the Arabians, Syrians, Persians, and the greatest part of the eastern nations, laboured at this time, rendered many an easy prey to the artifice and eloquence of this bold adventurer.
Page 542 - ... there resided an inherent sanctity, and that the adoration of Christians ought not to be confined to the persons represented by these images, but extend to the images themselves.
Page 418 - ... in honour of St. Mary, which was, in the following century, confirmed by Urban II. in the council of Clermont. There are also to be found in this age manifest indications of the institution of the roimtinKion atsary and crown of the Virgin, by which her worm*J...
Page 390 - ... of the Church — the darkest epoch in the annals of mankind. " The history of the Roman pontiffs that lived in this century," says Mosheim, " is a history of so many monsters, and not of men ; and exhibits a horrible series of the most flagitious, tremendous, and complicated crimes, as all writers, even those of the Roman community, unanimously confess.
Page 75 - Eutyches, who had been already sent into banishment, and deprived of his sacerdotal dignity by the emperor, was now condemned, though absent ; and the following doctrine, which is at this time almost generally received, was inculcated upon Christians as the object of faith, viz. " That in Christ two distinct natures were united in one person, and that without any change, mixture, or confusion.