Introduction of Christianity into Britain in Apostolic Times, with a brief history of the early English Church

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Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849 - 64 sivua
 

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Sivu 20 - ... they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword : they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins ; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Sivu 6 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Sivu 26 - Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
Sivu 13 - And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
Sivu 31 - Be it known and without doubt unto you, that we all are, and every one of us, obedient and subjects to the church of God, and to the pope of Rome, and to every godly Christian, to love every one in his degree in perfect charity, and to help every one of them by word and deed to be the children of God ; and other obedience than this I do not know due to him whom you name to be pope, nor to be the father of fathers, to be claimed and to be demanded.
Sivu 15 - As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch have erred, so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith.
Sivu 28 - found here a plain religion (simplicity is the badge of antiquity), practised by the Britons; living, some of them, in the contempt, and many more in the ignorance, of worldly vanities. He brought in a religion, spun with a coarser thread, though guarded with a finer trimming; made luscious to the senses with pleasing ceremonies, so that many who could not judge of the goodness were courted with the gaudiness thereof.
Sivu 28 - Britons, living peaceably at home, there enjoyed God, the gospel, and their mountains ; little skilful in, and less caring for the ceremonies a la mode, brought over by Augustine: and indeed their poverty could not go to the cost of Augustine's silver cross, which made them worship the God of their fathers...
Sivu 46 - In many of their societies," he says, " the pastor (so dependent for his bread on the people) has no official distinction or authority. He may flatter like a syco-phant, beg like a servant, and woo like a lover : but he is not permitted to enjoin like a ruler. His opinion is received with no deference ; his person is treated with no respect; and in the presence of some of his lay tyrants, he is only permitted to peep and mutter from the dust.
Sivu 36 - Roman direction during the transition from Paganism to Christianity, and those two were largely indebted to domestic zeal for their conversion. Every other county, from London to Edinburgh, has the full gratification of pointing to the ancient Church of Britain as its nursing mother in Christ's holy faith...

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