 | Tertullian - Christian literature, Early - 1869 - 546 pages
...spiritual is], through the subtleness of its substance, both for penetrating and insinuating. Thus the nature of the waters, sanctified by the Holy One,...itself conceived withal the power of sanctifying. Let no one say, " Why then, are we, pray, baptized with the very waters which then existed in the first... | |
 | Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson - Christian literature, Early - 1869 - 548 pages
...spiritual is], through the subtleness of its substance, both for penetrating and insinuating. Thus the nature of the waters, sanctified by the Holy One,...itself conceived withal the power of sanctifying. Let no one say, " Why then, are we, pray, baptized with the very waters which then existed in the first... | |
 | Ellet Joseph Waggoner - Church history - 1888 - 404 pages
...the spiritual is) through the subtleness of its substance, both for penetrating and insinuating. Thus the nature of the waters, sanctified by the Holy One,...itself conceived withal the power of sanctifying. Let no one say, ' Why then, are we, pray, baptized with the very waters which then existed in the first... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Henry Codman Potter, Samuel Macauley Jackson - United States - 1894 - 542 pages
...produce that which had life, that it might be no wonder in baptism if water know how to give life." " All waters, therefore, in virtue of the pristine privilege...God, attain the sacramental power of sanctification." In the Gnostic " Pistis Sophia," Christ is represented as saying: " If any one hath received the mysteries... | |
 | Albert Henry Newman - Baptists - 1894 - 550 pages
...produce that which had life, that it might be no wonder in baptism if water know how to give life." " All waters, therefore, in virtue of the pristine privilege...God, attain the sacramental power of sanctification." In the Gnostic " Pistis Sophia," Christ is represented as saying: " If any one hath received the mysteries... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold Allen - Church - 1897 - 632 pages
...them in vogue already in the Catholic church, wherein he had sought admittance as 1 De Sap., c. iv. : "All waters, therefore, in virtue of the pristine...invocation of God, attain the sacramental power of sanctilication ; for the Spirit immediately supervenes from the heavens, and rests over the waters,... | |
 | Albert Henry Newman - Church history - 1899 - 662 pages
...Spirit of God, who hovered over (the waters) from the beginning, would 1 " De A*lma." 46. • IUd., t continue to linger over the waters of the baptized."...itself conceived withal the power of sanctifying. ' Again : " All waters, therefore, in virtue of the pristine privilege of their origin, do, after invocation... | |
 | Albert Henry Newman - Church history - 1899 - 664 pages
...He argues that "the Spirit of God, who hovered over (the waters) from the beginning, would contjnue to linger over the waters of the baptized." " Thus,"...itself conceived withal the power of sanctifying. Again: "All waters, therefore, in virtue of the pristine privilege of their origin, do, after invocation... | |
 | Madison Monroe Smith - Baptism - 1899 - 168 pages
...(the waters) from the beginning would continue to linger over the waters of the baptized." . . . "Thus the nature of the waters, sanctified by the Holy One...itself conceived withal the power of sanctifying" (Ante-Xicene Fathers, vol. iii., p. 670). I quote from Tertullian, not for his theology, but for his... | |
 | Keshub Chunder Sen - Brahma-samaj - 1903 - 330 pages
...holy ; or else, from that which hovered over, that which was hovered over borrowed a holiness. Thus the nature of the waters, sanctified by the Holy One,...of sanctifying All waters, therefore, in virtue of their pristine privilege of origin, do, after invocation of God, attain the sacramental power of sanctification... | |
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All waters, therefore, in virtue of the pristine privilege of their origin, do, after invocation of God, attain the sacramental power of sanctification... 
