An Encyclopædia Ecclesiastica; Or, A Complete History of the Church:: Containing a Full and Compendious Explanation of All Ecclesiastical Rites and Ceremonies; a Distinct and Accurate Account of All Denominations of Christians, from the Earliest Ages of Christianity to the Present Time; Together with a Definition of Terms Usually Occurring in Ecclesiastical Writers, Volume 1 |
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... church until they had atoned for their misdoing by a public penance . To be admitted however to do penance was itself a favour not easily granted by the church . If any one , touched with remorse for the crime he had committed , was ...
... church until they had atoned for their misdoing by a public penance . To be admitted however to do penance was itself a favour not easily granted by the church . If any one , touched with remorse for the crime he had committed , was ...
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... church . This severity however , as savouring of Novatianism , was after- wards corrected , and the greatest sinners were allowed communion at the point of death upon their own request . • As soon as the penitent had humbly , patiently ...
... church . This severity however , as savouring of Novatianism , was after- wards corrected , and the greatest sinners were allowed communion at the point of death upon their own request . • As soon as the penitent had humbly , patiently ...
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... CHURCH , the name given in ecclesiastical history to the church established in Abyssinia . - See the last Article . ACADEMY , a term originally used to denote a garden or villa , situated within a mile of Athens , where Plato and his ...
... CHURCH , the name given in ecclesiastical history to the church established in Abyssinia . - See the last Article . ACADEMY , a term originally used to denote a garden or villa , situated within a mile of Athens , where Plato and his ...
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... churches . ACATHISTUS , the name given to a solemn hymn or vigil , anciently sung in the Greek church on the Saturday of the fifth week in Lent , in honour of the Virgin for having at three several times delivered the city of ...
... churches . ACATHISTUS , the name given to a solemn hymn or vigil , anciently sung in the Greek church on the Saturday of the fifth week in Lent , in honour of the Virgin for having at three several times delivered the city of ...
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... church . The translation from one see to another was also reputed a kind of adultery , which was founded upon the idea of its being a second marriage , which itself was esteemed a degree of adultery . This notion was supposed to have ...
... church . The translation from one see to another was also reputed a kind of adultery , which was founded upon the idea of its being a second marriage , which itself was esteemed a degree of adultery . This notion was supposed to have ...
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Page 165 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 573 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 9 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page xv - They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Page 485 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery : and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 25 - Ye hypocrites ! well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying; This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Page 418 - Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John ; Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost. (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Page 412 - God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made; Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary And was made man; And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
Page 9 - And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Page 369 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.