| William Hurd - 1799 - 952 sayfa
...the WALDENSES, and the ALBIGENSES. T was said by our Saviour, that he would build . his church upon a rock, and that the gates of hell should not prevail against it; by which we must understand, that from the time of his sending the holy Ghost upon his disciples, there... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1810 - 504 sayfa
...frail, vicious mortal. 6. •• A Roman Catholic knows, that Christ promised to build his church upon a rock, and that the gates of Hell should not prevail against it : And, •• If he does not bear the church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican," and... | |
| William Eusebius Andrews - 1815 - 564 sayfa
...anxiety; for though we did not lose sight of the promises of Him, who said that his church was built on a rock, and that the gates of hell should not prevail against it, nevertheless, we did not know the term he had marked nut for our chastisement, nor that iu which he... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 sayfa
...evidence advances and gains strength by time. Christ assured Peter that he would build his church upon a rock, and " that the gates of hell should not prevail against it," Matt. xvi. 18. The longer Christianity has a being in the world, the fulfilment of that promise is... | |
| John Henry Hobart - 1817 - 348 sayfa
...nations, and that his religion should prevail against all the opposition of worldly power and malice, and that the gates of hell should not prevail against it.' The fulfilling of these predictions prove a prophetic spirit in our Saviour, and, consequently, his divine... | |
| 614 sayfa
...for the religion — or which of their religious tenets were their converts to embrace. It was a good joke of the English — sending a schoolboy and a...Society ; and what did they prove, if true? — that the Englishmen were sunk in a state of savage barbarism — or if false, that the missionaries were fine... | |
| 1842 - 1128 sayfa
...gone on with regard to the Christian church. When Jesus declared, that he would build his church upon a rock, and that the gates of hell should not prevail against it, he simply declared, that there should hereafter ever be a body of men believing in him as the Son of... | |
| 1827 - 464 sayfa
...church of Christ. She was instituted by him : to her he gave his promises that he would build her upon a rock, and that the gates of hell should not prevail against her ; that he would give to her his spirit to guide her into all troth, and remain with her for ever.... | |
| Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 556 sayfa
...in Jerusalem not one stone should be left *' upon another :" and who also said, " that " his church was founded on a rock, and that " the gates of hell should not prevail against '< it." If then it is so arduous a task to make a irhole nation pass at once from one religion to another,... | |
| 1842 - 982 sayfa
...preliminary, the question, "what that church is of which our Lord himself declared that he would found it upon a rock, and that the gates of hell should not prevail against it ; and since those who are to be saved must be added thereto, there cannot surely be wanting some distinguishing... | |
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