Catechism of the history of the early Church in England and Wales

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 - 111 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 40 - that whoever adopts or affects the title of " UNIVERSAL BISHOP" has the pride and character of Antichrist, and is in some manner his fore-runner in this haughty quality of elevating himself above the rest of his order. And indeed both the one and the other seem to split upon the same rock ; for, as pride makes Antichrist strain his pretensions up to Godhead, so whoever is ambitious to be called the only or Universal Prelate...
Sayfa 21 - Deborah in the way she should go, by fitting her for that state of life in which it had pleased God to place her, so that she might have made a good wife for some honest man in the humbler walks of life, and have been happy with him.
Sayfa 50 - The life of man, O king, reminds me of a winter feast around your blazing fire, while the storm howls or the snow drives abroad. A distressed sparrow darts within the doorway: for a moment is cheered by warmth and shelter from the blast; then, shooting through the other entrance, it is lost again.
Sayfa 50 - A distressed sparrow darts within the doorway: for a moment it enjoys the cheering •warmth and shelter from the blast; then, shooting through the other entrance, it is lost again. Such is man : he comes we know not whence, hastily snatches a scanty share of worldly pleasure, and then goes we know not whither.
Sayfa 11 - ... paces from the place, adorned, or rather clothed with all kinds of flowers, having its sides neither perpendicular, nor even craggy, but sloping down into a most beautiful plain, worthy from its lovely appearance to be the scene of a martyr's sufferings.
Sayfa 62 - And forasmuch as both of them were, as has been said before, well read both in sacred and in secular literature, they gathered a crowd of disciples, and there daily flowed from them rivers of knowledge to water the hearts of their hearers; and, together with the books of holy writ, they also taught them the arts of ecclesiastical poetry, astronomy, and arithmetic.
Sayfa 42 - British churches, declared, that they owed the subjection of brotherly kindness and charity to the church of God, and to the pope of Rome, and to all Christians : but other obedience than...
Sayfa 74 - England seems to have been built under the directions of Aldhelm ; who has left in his writings a description of it in verse, as " a mighty instrument with innumerable tones, blown with bellows, and enclosed in a gilded case.
Sayfa 1 - ... instruments of defence. Its plains are spacious, its hills are pleasantly situated, adapted for superior tillage, and its mountains are admirably calculated for the alternate pasturage of cattle, where flowers of various colours, trodden by the feet of man, give it the appearance of a lovely picture.
Sayfa 64 - It is recorded of him, that he was deeply moved to adore the power of God in the mysterious wonders of the wind and storm. If he heard the sound of it, as he sat reading, he would stop to utter a prayer that God would be merciful to the children of men. As it increased, he would shut the book, and, falling on his knees, remain fixed in inward prayer. But if it grew very violent, or thunder and lightning shook the earth and air, then he would go to the church, and pass the time in earnest supplications...

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