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Page 334 - Nunc neophytos collocant, nunc seculo obstrictos, nunc apostatas nostros, ut gloria eos obligent, quia veritate non possunt. Nusquam facilius proficitur, quam in castris rebellium, ubi ipsum esse illic, promereri est. Kaque alius hodie episcopus, eras alius; hodie diaconus, qui eras lector; hodie presbyter, qui eras laicus; nam et laicis sacerdotalia munera injungunt.
Page 270 - The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith : and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another.
Page 262 - ... subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword; out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 337 - Polycarpum ab lohanne conlocatum refert; sicut Romanorum Clementem a Petro ordinatum itidem. Perinde utique et ceterae exhibent quos ab apostolis in episcopatum constitutos apostolici seniinis traduces habeant. Confingant tale aliquid haeretici.
Page 320 - If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest," is deemed, on good reasons, to be an interpolation.
Page 345 - ... sunt pontificalis auctoritas et regalis potestas. Porro sicut luna lumen suum a sole sortitur, quae re vera minor est illo quantitate simul et qualitate, situ pariter et effectu, sic regalis potestas ab auctoritate pontificali suae sortitur dignitatis splendorem, cuius conspectui quanto magis inhaeret, tanto maiori lumine decoratur et quo plus ab eius elongatur aspectu, eo plus proficit in splendore ...» (Mirbt, Quellen zur Geschichte d.
Page 254 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 10 - ... there is not one so worthy of being reverently praised and inwardly digested. The divisions " now so much exasperated that exist amongst us, on questions belonging to the exterior forms and the profession of religion, are of a kind that affect the Christian with inexpressible grief, the patriot with shame and dismay, and the statesman with hopeless perplexity.
Page 352 - Ecclesiae legem concilia ulla praefixcrint, cum omnia concilia per Romanae Ecclesiae auctoritatem et facta sint et robur acceperint, et in eorum statutis Romani pontificis patenter excipiatur auctoritas.
Page 244 - Romish tyranny was universal and absolute. Men could not think or inquire even concerning the processes of the material world, and the laws of matter and motion, without treading upon ground which the Church had preoccupied ;—all philosophy was either orthodox or heterodox; and a man might be burned for an opinion in mechanics, as well as for an opinion in theology. There could be no possession or enjoyment of the goods of life, no marrying, no inheriting, no devising, no ruling, no judging, no...