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Page 74 - Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona ; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 74 - And to thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven...
Page 222 - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Page 312 - Wood's character of him is, that — " he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity.
Page 122 - I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Page 545 - Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Page 189 - The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.
Page 528 - I imprinted on my daughter the idea of faith at a very early age. She was playing one day with a few beads, which seemed to delight her wonderfully. Her whole soul was absorbed in her beads. I said, " My dear, you have some pretty beads there.
Page 327 - Let us not then be puffed up for one against another, above that which is written: let us love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind: and our neighbour as ourself.
Page 569 - Get thee gone, then, thou cursed book, which hast seduced so many precious souls ! Get thee gone, thou corrupt, rotten book ; earth to earth, and dust to dust ! Get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and see corruption ! So much for the burial of his errors.
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| Title | An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics, Volume 3 An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics, Walter Farquhar Hook |
| Author | Walter Farquhar Hook |
| Published | 1847 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jun 16, 2006 |
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