History of the Church in the 18th & 19th centuries, tr. by J.F. Hurst, Volumen2

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Página 323 - Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Página 341 - And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Página 105 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Página 22 - where two or three were gathered together in his name, he would be in the midst of them...
Página 462 - ... henceforth to be concluded, it is likewise the civil law which is to decide. The supreme direction in matters of education is to be exercised by the State ; only the religious education remains in the hands of the clergy of the different Confessions. Public schools are open to all without difference of religion. In mixed marriages, parents may agree about the religion of their children as they please. If there is no such agreement the sons follow the religion of the father, the daughters that...
Página 434 - ... Mysteries of. Of all the ethnic religions, that of Hindustan is admitted to be the oldest, for its Vedas or sacred books claim an antiquity of nearly forty centuries. However Brahmanism may have been corrupted in more modern times, in its earliest state it consisted of a series of doctrines which embraced a belief in a Supreme Being and in the immortality of the soul. All primitive religions were more or less mystical, and that of India formed no exception to the rule. Oliver, in his...

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