An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: In Six Volumes, in which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power are Considered in Their Connexion with the State of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe During that Period, Volumen2W. Gracie, 1819 |
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... tion . Hence this famous missionary , though not the first who brought among that people the light of the gospel , has yet been justly entitled , The apostle of the Irish , and the father of the Hiber- nian [ 9 ] From the fragments of ...
... tion . Hence this famous missionary , though not the first who brought among that people the light of the gospel , has yet been justly entitled , The apostle of the Irish , and the father of the Hiber- nian [ 9 ] From the fragments of ...
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... tion of PART II . II . It was much about this time that Juvenal , bishop of Jerusalem , or rather of Elia , attempted to withdraw himself and his church from the ju- Juvenal . risdiction of the bishop of Caesarea , and aspired after a ...
... tion of PART II . II . It was much about this time that Juvenal , bishop of Jerusalem , or rather of Elia , attempted to withdraw himself and his church from the ju- Juvenal . risdiction of the bishop of Caesarea , and aspired after a ...
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... tion of order and tranquillity in the remoter pro- vinces . Such were the great and distinguishing privileges of the patriarchs ; and they were ac- companied with others of less moment , which it is needless to mention . The incon ...
... tion of order and tranquillity in the remoter pro- vinces . Such were the great and distinguishing privileges of the patriarchs ; and they were ac- companied with others of less moment , which it is needless to mention . The incon ...
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... tion , hurried frequently the contending parties into the most dangerous extremes . Supersti- apace . II . If , before this time , the lustre of religion tion grows was clouded with superstition , and its divine pre- cepts adulterated ...
... tion , hurried frequently the contending parties into the most dangerous extremes . Supersti- apace . II . If , before this time , the lustre of religion tion grows was clouded with superstition , and its divine pre- cepts adulterated ...
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... tion , heard the contending parties during the space of three days , and , at length , pronounced sentence in favour of the Catholics [ e ] . The Ca- tholic bishops , who were present at this confer- ence , were 286 in number ; and ...
... tion , heard the contending parties during the space of three days , and , at length , pronounced sentence in favour of the Catholics [ e ] . The Ca- tholic bishops , who were present at this confer- ence , were 286 in number ; and ...
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Página 420 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands ; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Página 419 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled : and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Página 343 - But this consequence was quickly retorted upon those that imagined it; for they who denied the metamorphosis of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ...
Página 319 - This idolatrous devotion was now considered as the most sacred and momentous branch of religion, nor did any dare to entertain the smallest hopes of finding the Deity propitious, before they had assured themselves of the protection and intercession of some one or other of the saintly order. Hence it was that every church, and indeed every private Christian, had their particular patron among the saints, from an apprehension that their spiritual interests would be but indifferently managed by those,...
Página 39 - The images of those, who, during their lives, had acquired the reputation of uncommon sanctity, were now honoured with a particular worship in several places; and many imagined, that this worship drew down into the images the propitious presence of the saints or celestial beings they represented...
Página 373 - Prince of that region, whom the Nestorians converted to the Christian faith, assumed, according to the vulgar tradition, the name of John after his baptism, to which he added the surname of "Presbyter," from a principle of modesty; whence, it is said, his successors were each of them called " Prester John" until the time of Gingis Khan.
Página 558 - ... there resided an inherent sanctity, and that the adoration of Christians ought not to be confined to the persons represented by these images, but extend to the images themselves.
Página 562 - In this confession there was, among other tenets equally absurd, the following declaration, that "the bread and wine, after consecration, were not only a sacrament, but also the real body and blood of Jesus Christ ; and that this body and blood were handled by the priests and consumed by the faithful, and not in a sacramental sense, but in reality and truth, as other sensible objects are.
Página 262 - Constantinople in 7, ;o, which degraded Germanus, bishop of that city, who was a patron of images ; and he ordered all the images to be publicly burnt, and inflicted a variety of severe punishments...
Página 400 - This exemplary prelate, who sold every ecclesiastical benefice as soon as it became vacant, had in his stable above two thousand hunting horses, which he fed with pignuts, pistachios, dates, dried grapes, figs steeped in the most exquisite wines, to all which he added the richest perfumes.