 | William Lefroy - Church history - 1896 - 524 pages
...both. There is a famous saying of Irenaeus, " Where the Church is, there also is the Spirit of God ; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and all grace."1 There is less doubt as to the truth of the second half of this statement, which resembles... | |
 | William Montgomery Brown - 1899 - 548 pages
...participate in Him, but deprive themselves of life. For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace." " God will judge all those who make schisms. No reformation can be wrought by them, which can compensate... | |
 | Charles Gore - Apostolic succession - 1900 - 454 pages
...participate in Him, but deprive themselves of life. . . . For where the Church is there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God is there is the Church and all grace.' 'God will judge all those who make schisms. . . . No reformation can be wrought by them which can compensate... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Free thought - 1901 - 544 pages
...life by a perverse mind and worse deeds. For where the Church is, there is also the Spirit of God ; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and all grace. But the Spirit is truth. Wherefore, they who do not partake of Him (the Spirit), and are not nurtured... | |
 | Thomas Martin Lindsay - Church history - 1902 - 434 pages
...their perverse opinions and infamous behaviour. For where the Church is there is the Spirit of God ; and where the Spirit of God is there is the Church and every kind of grace ; but the Spirit is truth " (III. xxiv. 1). The Spirit of Truth was in the whole... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1903 - 598 pages
...Protestantism the second clause of the passage of Iremeus : ' Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God ; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace.' " Protestantism claims to be only oue, but the most advanced portion of the Church of Christ; Romanism... | |
 | Thomas Martin Lindsay - Church history - 1903 - 432 pages
...their perverse opinions and infamous behaviour. For where the Church is there is the Spirit of God ; and where the Spirit of God is there is the Church and every kind of grace ; but the Spirit is truth " (III. xxiv. 1). The Spirit of Truth was in the whole... | |
 | Herbert Edward Ryle - 1904 - 340 pages
...in the second century, who used the famous words, " Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God. And where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace." It is not for members of a Protestant Church to draw narrower limits. It is enough for us to have the... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1908 - 630 pages
...alone are enjoyed. Irenaeus says, "et ubi spiritus Dei, illuc ecclesia et omnia gratia ;" that is, where the spirit of God is, there is the church, and all grace.* The presence of God's spirit, therefore, is the sure index to this "legitimate ecclesiastical perpetuity."... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1908 - 628 pages
...alone are enjoyed. Irenaeus says, "et ubi spiritus Dei, illuc ecclesia et omnia gratia ;" that is, where the spirit of God is. there is the church, and all grace.4 The presence of God's spirit, therefore, is the sure index to this "legitimate ecclesiastical... | |
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For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace; but the Spirit is truth. 
