An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

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J.B. Lippincott, 1867 - Literary Criticism - 601 pages
 

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Page 373 - ... though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.
Page 70 - Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Page 503 - Bishops, priests, and deacons, are not commanded by God's law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage ; therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.
Page 25 - Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Page 496 - repealing all Statutes, Articles, and Provisions made against the See Apostolic of Rome since the twentieth year of King Henry VIII., and also for the establishment of all Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Possessions and Hereditaments conveyed to the Laity;
Page 483 - That communion in both kinds was not necessary to salvation to all persons by the law of God; but that both the flesh and blood of Christ were together in each of the kinds. (3.) That priests after the order of priesthood might not marry by the law of God.
Page 375 - Ma yo aus o dire, car se troba en ver, Que tuit li papa que foron de Silvestre entro en aquest, Et tuit li cardinal et tuit li vesque e tuit li aba, Tuit aquisti ensemp non han tan de potesta, Que ilh poissan perdonar un sol pecca mortal. Solament Dio perdona, que autre non ho po far.

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