The Age of the Fathers: Being Chapters in the History of the Church During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1903 - Church history |
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Page 79 - We believe in One God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, begotten of the Father, Only-begotten, that is, of the Substance of the Father : God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God : begotten not made : of one substance with the Father...
Page 80 - There was when he was not," and "Before he was begotten he was not,
Page 416 - We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of all things, both visible and invisible; and in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, only begotten, that is to say, of the substance of the Father, God of God, Light of Light...
Page 80 - Father ; by whom all things both in heaven and earth were made: who for us men and our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate and made man, and suffered, and the third day rose again, and ascended into heaven, and shall come again to judge the quick and the dead. And in the Holy Ghost. And...
Page 71 - We think it a good method to secure our rule of faith against impostures of all kinds ; whether of enthusiasm or false criticism, or conceited reason, or oral tradition, or the assuming dictates of an infallible chair. If we thus preserve the true sense of Scripture, and upon that sense build our faith, we then build upon Scripture only; for the sense of Scripture is Scripture.
Page 72 - We believe in One God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in One Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, God from God, Light from Light, Life from Life, Son Only-begotten, firstborn of every creature, before all the ages, begotten from the Father, by whom also all things were made...
Page 391 - If you desire a man to change a piece of silver, he informs you, wherein the Son differs from the Father; if you ask the price of a loaf, you are told by way of reply, that the Son is inferior to the Father; and if you inquire, whether the bath is ready, the answer is, that the Son was made out of nothing.
Page 80 - ... incarnate, and was made man ; suffered, and rose again the third day ; ascended into the heavens, and will come to judge the living and the dead. We believe also in the Holy Spirit.
Page 96 - Cathedral. TT is a beautiful tradition of the Armenian Church, that on -*- the return of Aristaces, Gregory the Illuminator received the Nicene Creed with this doxology; "Yea, we glorify Him who was before all ages, adoring the Holy Trinity, and the one only Divinity of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, through ages of ages. Amen".
Page 327 - Spirit foreign to the Father and the Son, but rather glorified Him with the Father and the Son in the one faith of the Holy Trinity, because in the Holy Trinity there is one Godhead.