An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time : with an Appendix, Giving a Condensed History of the Jews from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Day, Illustrated with Maps and Engravings |
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... bishops or overseers , being set apart by prayer and fasting , and imposition of hands , and the right hand of fellowship originally by the apostles , and successively by such as had , by them been introduced into the ministry . Christ ...
... bishops or overseers , being set apart by prayer and fasting , and imposition of hands , and the right hand of fellowship originally by the apostles , and successively by such as had , by them been introduced into the ministry . Christ ...
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... Bishop was established , which , before the close of the period above alluded to , became one of immense power in the Church . Every year , converts to Christianity were prodigiously multi- plied , until one of the Fathers could say ...
... Bishop was established , which , before the close of the period above alluded to , became one of immense power in the Church . Every year , converts to Christianity were prodigiously multi- plied , until one of the Fathers could say ...
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... the severity of the confinement , expired . Pothinus , bishop of Lyons , upwards of ninety years of age , and very infirm and asthmatic , yet strong in spirit , and panting after martyrdom , was dragged 164 PERIOD III . MARTYRS OF.
... the severity of the confinement , expired . Pothinus , bishop of Lyons , upwards of ninety years of age , and very infirm and asthmatic , yet strong in spirit , and panting after martyrdom , was dragged 164 PERIOD III . MARTYRS OF.
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... bishop of Rome , endeavoured to compel the Asi- atic churches to submit to the Western custom , and , failing in his attempt , broke all communion with them . Each party re- tained its own custom until the fourth century , when the coun ...
... bishop of Rome , endeavoured to compel the Asi- atic churches to submit to the Western custom , and , failing in his attempt , broke all communion with them . Each party re- tained its own custom until the fourth century , when the coun ...
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... bishop of Lyons . He was a Greek by birth and a disciple of Polycarp . " I can describe , " says he , in a letter to a friend , " the very spot in which Polycarp sat and expounded , and his coming in and going out , and the very manner ...
... bishop of Lyons . He was a Greek by birth and a disciple of Polycarp . " I can describe , " says he , in a letter to a friend , " the very spot in which Polycarp sat and expounded , and his coming in and going out , and the very manner ...
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Page 19 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 134 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 34 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 70 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Page 37 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 15 - But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 31 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor : and they served other gods.
Page 72 - Who is there among you of all his people ? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Page 107 - But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither : notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee : 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 70 - I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.