Religions of the World: An Impartial History of Religious Creeds, Forms of Worship, Sects, Controversies, and Manifestations, from the Earliest Period to the Present TimeV. Nicholson & Company, 1855 - 125 páginas |
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... manners are simple and their morals uncor- rupted . Their benevolence is said to be ac- tive and unaffected ; the prisoner , the stran- ger , and the poor are sure of receiving their assistance . Though willing to make converts and ...
... manners are simple and their morals uncor- rupted . Their benevolence is said to be ac- tive and unaffected ; the prisoner , the stran- ger , and the poor are sure of receiving their assistance . Though willing to make converts and ...
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... manner , are not of an idolatrous character ? Whatever we find existing as a part of the human character , finds its development , under certain modifications , wherever humanity ex- ists . It is no more to form an image of the Being we ...
... manner , are not of an idolatrous character ? Whatever we find existing as a part of the human character , finds its development , under certain modifications , wherever humanity ex- ists . It is no more to form an image of the Being we ...
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... manner , by crucifixion , under the or- ders of the Roman Governor . For the events of the Life of Christ and his teachings , we are chiefly dependent upon four gospels , written sometime after his death , and in Greek , though he and ...
... manner , by crucifixion , under the or- ders of the Roman Governor . For the events of the Life of Christ and his teachings , we are chiefly dependent upon four gospels , written sometime after his death , and in Greek , though he and ...
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... manner . The rise of this religion was remarkable , and it success was , and is wonderful . Though of six hundred years later date , it is the faith of more than twice the population of Christen- dom , and the proportion of zealous ...
... manner . The rise of this religion was remarkable , and it success was , and is wonderful . Though of six hundred years later date , it is the faith of more than twice the population of Christen- dom , and the proportion of zealous ...
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... manners and laws much resembled those of Sparta . From infancy men were innured to every hardship by severe exercises . Courage was their principal virtue , cowardice , the only vice which they so considered . All honors and rewards ...
... manners and laws much resembled those of Sparta . From infancy men were innured to every hardship by severe exercises . Courage was their principal virtue , cowardice , the only vice which they so considered . All honors and rewards ...
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Página 11 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part. As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns. As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills. he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 53 - For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh ; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Página 53 - Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die ; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Página 53 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Página 53 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Página 65 - And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? 37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Página 85 - For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections : for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature; and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error, which was meet.
Página 65 - And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still : and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch ; and he baptized him.
Página 45 - For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the- majesty coeternal.
Página 98 - Messiah was speedily to commence ; that the time was at hand for the gospel, in all its fulness, to be preached in power unto all nations, that a people might be prepared for the millennial reign. " I was informed that I was chosen to be an instrument in the hands of God to bring about some of His purposes in this glorious dispensation.