 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...were no longer solicited to exercise the laborious office, of mediation in heaven, and ministry upon earth. In the practice, or at least in the theory,...in their judgment, the baptism and communion of the faithful. They CHAP, indulged a convenient latitude for the interpretation of scrip- LIV' ture; and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 406 pages
...the laborious office, of mediation in CHAP, heaven, and ministry upon earth. In the practice, w V' or at least in the theory, of the sacraments, the...in their judgment, the baptism and communion of the faithful. They indulged a convenient latitude for the interpretation of scripture ; and as often as... | |
 | Robert Vaughan, John Wycliffe - Lollards - 1828 - 472 pages
...symbols of grace. The mother of God was degraded from her celestial honors and immaculate virginity, and the saints and angels were no longer solicited to...with the manichean absurdities, should in candour be learnt from unquestionable authority before it is admitted. As decisive on this point, it should also... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 428 pages
...of grace. " The Mother of God" was degraded from her celestial honours and immaculate virginity, and the saints and angels were no longer solicited to...in their judgment, the baptism and communion of the faithful. In a body of instructors, whose rank scarcely admitted a distinction between the shepherd... | |
 | Samuel Roffey Maitland - Albigenses - 1832 - 580 pages
...least in the theory, of the saeraments, " the Paulieians were inelined to aholish all visi" ble objeets of worship, and the words of the " gospel were, in their judgment, the haptism, " and eommunion, of the faithful. They indulg" ed a eonvenient latitude for the interpretation... | |
 | John Henry Newman - History - 1845 - 480 pages
...grace. The Mother of GOD was degraded, &c. ; and the Saints and Angels were no longer solicited, &c. ... In the practice, or at least in the theory of the...in their judgment, the baptism and communion of the faithful. ... "A creed thus simple and spiritual was not adapted to the genius of the times ; and the... | |
 | Protestantism - 1847 - 648 pages
...were no longer solicited to exercise the laborious office of mediation in heaven, and ministry upon : f2 K ; 6| oNR3 * 9y y { 4 g q...(BnT Hϡ$ j q- BRvC {d]ƃ P tʐ ڮ ] I n C\ FѲ au faithful." • It is sufficiently plain that it was the study of Inspired Truth, and not any tendency... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1852 - 636 pages
...of the sacraments, the Paulicians were inclined to abolish all visible objects of worship, and tho words of the gospel were, in their judgment, the baptism and communion of the faithful. They indulged a convenient latitude for the interpretation of Scripture : and as often as... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 pages
...were no longer solicited to exercise the laborious office of mediation in heaven and ministry upon earth. In the practice, or at least in the theory,...in their judgment, the baptism and communion of the faithful. They indulged a convenient latitude for the interpretation of Scripture : and as often as... | |
 | John Mockett Cramp - 1868 - 596 pages
...considerations, and Baptists ought to be especially careful in this matter. Gibbon writes thus : " In the practice, or at least in the theory, of the...in their judgment, the baptism and communion of the faithful." — Decline and Fall, chap. liv. Jones, referring to Gibbon as his authority, says : " The... | |
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... earth. In the practice, or at least in the theory, of the sacraments, the Paulicians were inclined to abolish all visible objects of worship, and the words of the Gospel were, in their judgment, the baptism and communion of the faithful. 
