Evangelical Biography: Being a Complete and Fruitful Account of the Lives ... & Happy Deaths of Eminent Christians : who Have Shone with Distinguished Lustre ...J. Stratford, 1807 - Christian biography |
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... elector of Saxony , who had heard him preach . After this , he began to expound the epistle to the Romans , and the Psalms ; where he shewed the difference between the Law and the Gospel . He refuted the error that was then predominant ...
... elector of Saxony , who had heard him preach . After this , he began to expound the epistle to the Romans , and the Psalms ; where he shewed the difference between the Law and the Gospel . He refuted the error that was then predominant ...
Page 251
... Saxony and thereabouts , was granted to Magdalen , sister to the Pope , she , to make the most of it , appointed ... elector , who was one of the most opulent and potent princes in Ger- many . Staupitius informed the elector of the ...
... Saxony and thereabouts , was granted to Magdalen , sister to the Pope , she , to make the most of it , appointed ... elector , who was one of the most opulent and potent princes in Ger- many . Staupitius informed the elector of the ...
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... elector of Saxony : but Tetzelius had more authority by his offices of commissioner and inquisitor ; though a man of such profligate morals , that he had been condemned to die for adultery at Inspruck , but was pardoned at the in ...
... elector of Saxony : but Tetzelius had more authority by his offices of commissioner and inquisitor ; though a man of such profligate morals , that he had been condemned to die for adultery at Inspruck , but was pardoned at the in ...
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... elector of Saxony , desiring him to give Luther no protection , but to put him into the hands of cardinal Cajetan , his legate in Germany ; assuring him , that if Lu- ther was innocent , he would send him back absolved ; and if guilty ...
... elector of Saxony , desiring him to give Luther no protection , but to put him into the hands of cardinal Cajetan , his legate in Germany ; assuring him , that if Lu- ther was innocent , he would send him back absolved ; and if guilty ...
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... elector of Saxony . Luther was powerfully supported by the university of Wittenberg , where he con- tinued to teach the same doctrines , and sent a challenge to all the inquisitors to dispute with him there , under the sanction of a ...
... elector of Saxony . Luther was powerfully supported by the university of Wittenberg , where he con- tinued to teach the same doctrines , and sent a challenge to all the inquisitors to dispute with him there , under the sanction of a ...
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Page 48 - If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to Whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 108 - As the godly consideration of predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up' their mind to high and heavenly things...
Page 163 - They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard ; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
Page 194 - For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Page 5 - If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit ; I have found a ransom.
Page 56 - For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Page 97 - For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption : But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
Page 6 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 132 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Page 278 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.