The Early Days of Christianity

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Funk & Wagnalls, 1888 - Church history - 664 pages
 

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Page 402 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 218 - Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth. understanding, she saith to him, Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Page 599 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 158 - For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.
Page 573 - If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death.
Page 230 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Page 306 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Page 367 - And I knew Him not : but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost, and I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
Page 286 - Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Page 533 - Hail holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee un blamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.

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