The Evidences of Christianity as Exhibited in the Writings of Its Apologists Down to Augustine: An Essay which Obtained the Hulsean Prize for the Year 1852R. Carter & Brothers, 1854 - 230 páginas |
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The Evidences of Christianity as Exhibited in the Writings of Its Apologists ... William Jay Bolton Visualização integral - 1853 |
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Página 230 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Página 96 - For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Página 223 - And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
Página 40 - TERTULLIANf in like manner wonders "why after the mystery of our birth, we might not once more be brought into existence by the will of the great Creator, who made us at first out of nothing. It would be no new thing, at least; and as we cannot explain how we were at first made, we cannot expect to understand how we shall again be made. Whence we see that the Resurrection can be readily conceived of. But if any man still doubts respecting the power of God, let him look around and behold! Nature stamped...
Página 195 - Jesus, he held his peace, and when he was accused, returned no answer, being fully persuaded that the tenor of his life and conversation among the Jews was the best apology that could possibly be made in his behalf. .... And even now he preserves the same silence, and makes no other answer than the unblemished lives of his sincere followers ; they are his most cheerful and successful advocates, and have so loud a voice, that they drown the clamors of the most zealous and bigoted adversaries.
Página 105 - TERTULLIAN first shows|| how God promised to Abraham that in his seed should all the families of the earth be blessed; and that he should be the father of two nations, the Jews and the Gentiles.
Página 176 - Talk they of morals ! O thou bleeding Love ! Thou maker of new morals to mankind ! The grand morality is love of Thee.
Página 118 - The works of our Saviour were always conspicuous, for they were real; both those that were healed, and those that were raised from the dead ; who were seen not only when they were healed or raised, but for a long time afterwards: not only whilst he dwelled on this earth, but also after his departure, and for a good while after it, insomuch that some of them have reached to our times *." Justin Martyr came little more than thirty years after Quadratus.
Página 38 - The sower goes forth, and casts it upon the earth; and the seed which when it was sown fell upon the earth dry and naked, in time dissolves.