Life in action, or The grace of God manifested in the zeal, labours, sufferings, and achievements of William Farel, tr. from the Fr., by Philos

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1848
 

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Página 100 - O that without a lingering groan I may the welcome word receive ; My body with my charge lay down, And cease at once to work and live...
Página 67 - Christ, which before was preached unto you; whom the Heavens must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
Página 102 - is \ *' an excellent book. We have nobody at Rome " capable of writing in this manner. I wifh I " could engage the author to refide here.
Página 17 - in the cross, in pilgrimages, images, vows, and relics. What the priest holds in his hands, puts into the box, and there shuts it up, eats, and gives others to eat, is my only true God, and to me there is no other, either in heaven or upon earth.
Página 105 - Can you empty the great deep, drop by drop? Then you may reform us by dissuasives from particular vices. But let the " righteousness which is of God by faith" be brought in, and so shall its proud waves be stayed.
Página 13 - that mother of all learning, that true lamp of the Church which never knew eclipse, that clear and polished mirror of the faith, dimmed by no cloud, and spotted by no touch."4 He obtained the permission of his parents, and set out for the capital of France.
Página 19 - ... conviction told him that the Church could not long remain in its actual position; and often, at the very moment of his return from saying mass, or of rising from before some image, the old man would turn towards his youthful disciple, and grasping him by the hand would say in a serious tone of voice: " My dear William, God will renew the world, and you will see it !"•}- Farel did not thoroughly understand these words.
Página 22 - Now, who will deny that justification is the good and perfect gift ? If we see a man moving, the respiration that we perceive is to us a sign of life. Thus works are necessary, but only as signs of a living faith, which is accompanied by justification.-}Do eye-salves or lotions give light to the eye?
Página 28 - Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the Word.
Página 38 - ... the pure instructions of illustrious teachers ; together they partook of the Lord's supper in conformity with Christ's institution ; together they received touching proofs of the love of their brethren. "Do you remember...

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