 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1892 - 956 pages
...communion with the Church, exclude themselves from life by their bad doctrines and criminal conduct. For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God...where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and with her all grace " (iii., sec. 24). Protestant writers have made very singular work in their attempts... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Church history - 1892 - 506 pages
..." The Church is the dwelling-place of the Holy Ghost on earth ; 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." As yet this unity had not been evidenced in any universal council ; but it was believed that the Councils... | |
 | Christian union - 1893 - 412 pages
...way : " Catholicism emphasises the first, Protestantism the second clause of the passage of Irentcus: 'Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God ;...Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace.' " Protestantism claims to be only one but the most advanced portion of the Church of Christ ; Romanism... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1894 - 926 pages
...themselves from life by their bad doctrines and criminal conduct. For, 1 Against Heresies, iii., sec. 3. where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and,...where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and with her all grace."1 A Protestant divine, Zeigler, remarks: " To the mind of Irenaeus, it is the episcopate... | |
 | Emanuel Vogel Gerhart - Reformed Church - 1894 - 986 pages
...His Spirit the principle and substance of His body the Church. "Where the Church is," says Irenaeus, "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."1 Pentecost, since it quickens a human race fashioned... | |
 | 1895 - 444 pages
...truth, is come, he will teach you all truth." (xiv. 16, 17; and xvi. 13.) Hence St. Irenaeus says: " For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God,...Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace ; and the Spirit of Truth." (Against Heresies, vol. iii. c. xxiv.) The necessity of believing the unwritten... | |
 | Revere Franklin Weidner - Lutheran Church - 1895 - 312 pages
...Protestantism more firmly to the second part of the utterance of Irenaeus, '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.' " MOEHLER3 (d. 1838, Roman Catholic) says: "Catholic doctrine considers the visible Church as the prius,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1896 - 600 pages
...But the fundamental teaching of the Catholic Church was early set forth by Irenseus (second century): "Where the Church is there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God is there is the Church;" which was still further carried out by Cyprian : " Whoever he may be, and whatever he may be, he who... | |
 | William Lefroy - Church history - 1896 - 524 pages
...some sort underlying 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... | |
 | George Park Fisher - Theology, Doctrinal - 1896 - 616 pages
...guarded by the Church as a " treasure in a precious vessel." Within the Church is the Holy Spirit. " Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the Church." 5 It was an easy, yet a marked step, in advance of Irenaeus, when Cyprian, in... | |
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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. 
