A Vindication of the Doctrine of Scripture, and of the Primitive Faith: Concerning the Deity of Christ: in Reply to Dr. Priestley's History of Early Opinions, &c ...

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Neill, 1794
 

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Page 104 - Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law : And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Page 8 - Let us search into all the ages that have gone before us ; and let us learn that our Lord has in every one of them still given place for repentance to all such as would turn to him.
Page 161 - TELL me, ye that desire to be under the Law, do ye not hear the Law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free-woman.
Page 349 - There are who partake of the Logos which was from the beginning, the Logos that was with God, and the Logos that...
Page 12 - ... miraculous birth. Epiphanius, in his account of the Nazarenes (and the Jewish christians never went by any other name) makes no mention of any of them believing the divinity of Christ, in any sense of the word. It is particularly remarkable that Hegesippus, in giving an account of the heresies of his time, though he mentions the Carpocratians, Valentinians, and others who were generally termed Gnostics (and who held that Christ had a pre-existence, and was man only in appearance) not only makes...
Page 308 - They are then conducted by us to a place where there is water, and are regenerated in the same manner in which we ourselves were regenerated. For they are then washed in the name of God the Father and Lord of the Universe, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ. and of the Holy Spirit.
Page 467 - swearing by the most high God ; the great, immortal, celestial Son of the Father ; the Spirit, proceeding from the Father; one of three, and three of one.
Page 308 - In the name of God, the Father and Lord of all, and of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Ghost, they then receive the washing with water. For Christ said: "Unless you be born again, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven
Page 444 - Polycarp, a disciple of St. John, when at the stake, addressed a prayer to God which he concluded in this manner : " For all things I praise thee, I bless thee, I glorify thee, together with the eternal and heavenly Jesus Christ: with whom, unto thee, and the Holy Spirit, be glory, both now and for ever, world without end, Amen.
Page 161 - Mofes, thoujhalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox, that treadeth out the corn. Doth GOD take care for oxen ? Or, faith he it, altogether, for our fakes ? For our fakes, no doubt, this is written...

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