...passages from Irenaeus, Origen, and Eusebius. Mr. Gibbon says, the Christian Church, from the times of the Apostles and their first disciples, has claimed...an uninterrupted succession of miraculous powers. Amongst these he mentions the power of raising the dead. In the days of Irenaeus, he affirms, about...

...of confidence which in the second century we had so liberally granted to Justin or to Irenaeus." * " The knowledge of foreign languages was frequently communicated to the contemporaries of Irenaeus, [that is, at the end of the second and beginning of the third century,] though Irenaeus himself was...

...of nature for the service of religion, the Christian church, from the time of the apostles and their disciples, has claimed an uninterrupted succession...of vision, and of prophecy, the power of expelling demons, of healing the sick, and of raising the dead."6 The same author still further says : " During...

...service of religion, the Christian church, from the time of the apostles and their first disciples,f nas claimed an uninterrupted succession of miraculous...communicated to the contemporaries of Irenaeus, though Irenasus himself was left to struggle with the difficultiesJ of a barba* Tertnllian, De Spectaculis,...

...to their prayers, had lived afterwards among them many years." "The Christian church, from the time of the apostles and their first disciples, has claimed...miraculous powers, the gift of tongues, of vision and prophecy, the power of expelling demons, of healing the sick, and of raising the dead." • Again he...

...laws of nature for the service of religion, the Christian church, from the time of the Apostles und their first disciples, has claimed an uninterrupted succession of miraculous powers The expulsion of the demons from the bodies of tiiose unhappy persons whom they had been permitted to torment,...

...Apostles, and Gibbon says in his history of the Roman Empire : " The Christian church, from the time of the apostles and their first disciples, has claimed...daemons, of healing the sick, and of raising the dead." But Dr. Brooks does not appear to coincide with Rev. AJ Gordon, DD, a Baptist clergyman of the same...

...service of religion, the Christian church, from the time of the apostles and their first disciples,73 has claimed an uninterrupted succession of miraculous...healing the sick, and of raising the dead. The knowledge )f foreign languages was frequently communicated to the contemporaries of Irenaeus, though Irenseus...

...when he suspended the laws of Nature for the service of religion, the Christian church, from the time of the apostles and their first disciples," has claimed...of vision and of prophecy, the power of expelling demons, of healing the sick, and of raising the dead. The knowledge of foreign languages was frequently...

...of the second century, the dead were raised. Says Gibbon, — "The Christian Church, from the time of the apostles and their first disciples, has claimed...uninterrupted succession of miraculous powers, the power ... of healing the sick, and of raising the dead. ... In the days of Irenseus, about the end...