 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 sayfa
...his faithful follower in- l>ie' vestigated the creed of primitive Christianity ; and, whatever might be the success, a protestant reader will applaud the spirit, of the enquiry. But if the scriptures of the Paulicians were pure, they were not perfect. Their founders rejected... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 sayfa
...worship. " He investigated the creed of primitive Christianity," says Gibbon, " and whatever might be the success, a protestant reader will applaud the spirit of the inquiry." * The knowledge to which Constantine himself was, under the divine blessing, enabled to attain,... | |
 | Robert Vaughan, John Wycliffe - 1828 - 472 sayfa
...instruction. It was in the gospels, and the epistles, that Constantine and his followers seduously studied the creed of the first believers; and it has...a protestant reader will applaud the spirit of the enquiry."2 If we yield implicit credit to the enemies of the Paulicians, we shall regard them as deeply... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 428 sayfa
...addressed ; and a lingering fondness for the purer ages of the Gospel, led them to discover the same 58 pardonable weakness in conferring the names of primitive...a protestant reader will applaud the spirit of the inquiry." It is, however, sufficiently plain, that it was the study of inspired truth, which taught... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1845 - 480 sayfa
...St. Paul, his faithful follower investigated the creed of primitive Christianity; and, whatever might be the success, a Protestant reader will applaud the spirit of the inquiry. "But if the Scriptures of the Paulicians were pure, they were not perfect. Their founders... | |
 | David Benedict - 1848 - 1024 sayfa
...epistles of Paul, Constantine investigated the creed of the primitive Christians ; and, whatever might be the success, a protestant reader will applaud the spirit of the inquiry. In practice, or at least in theory, of the sacraments, the Paulicians were inclined to abolish... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 sayfa
...his Btble- faithful follower investigated the creed of primitive Christianity ; and, whatever might be the success, a Protestant reader will applaud the spirit of the inquiry. But if the Scriptures of the Paulicians were pure, they were not perfect Their founders rejected... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 sayfa
...Paul, his faithful follower investigated the Creed of primitive Christianity ; and, whatever might be the success, a Protestant reader will applaud the spirit, of the inquiry. But if the Scriptures of the Paulicians were pure, they were not perfect. Their founders rejected... | |
 | Thomas Armitage - 1887 - 1042 sayfa
...St. Paul, his faithful follower investigated the creed of primitive Christianity ; and, whatever may be the success, a Protestant reader will applaud the spirit of the inquiry.' He then affirms that the Paulicians respected the Old Testament, the Epistles of Peter and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 sayfa
...Paul, his faithful follower investigated the creed of primitive Christianity ; and, whatever might be the success, a Protestant reader will applaud the spirit, of the inquiry. But if the scriptures of the Paulicians were pure, they were not perfect. Their founders rejected... | |
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Cappadocia; and this innocent allegory revived the example and memory of the first ages. In the Gospel and the Epistles of St. Paul his faithful follower investigated the creed of primitive Christianity; and, whatever might be the success, a Protestant... 
