Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volume 33

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Page 14 - God ; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord : in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit...
Page 33 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth...
Page 205 - First, that after the consecration of the bread and wine in the Lord's Supper, nothing remained of these symbols but the outward figure, under which the body and blood of Christ...
Page 272 - As you are sitting with your ealdormen and thegns about you, the fire blazing in the center, and the whole hall cheered by its warmth ; and while storms of rain and snow are raging without, a little sparrow flies in at one door, roams around our festive meeting, and passes out at some other entrance. While it is among us, it feels not the wintry tempest. It enjoys the short comfort and serenity of its transient stay ; but then, plunging into the winter from which it had flown, it disappears from...
Page 149 - JESUS; that these two persons had only one aspect ; that the union between the SON of GOD and the SON of man was formed in the moment of the Virgin's conception, and was never to be dissolved ; that it was not, however...
Page 272 - ... its warmth, and while storms of rain and snow are raging, without; a little sparrow flies in at one door, roams around our festive meeting, and passes out at some other entrance. While it is among us, it feels not the wintry tempest ; it enjoys the short comfort and serenity of its transient stay; but then plunging into the winter from which it had flown, it disappears from our eyes. Such is here the life of man.
Page 157 - ... zealous pontiff without effect ; it seems on the contrary to have been attended with the desired success, since, in this century, the church of the Donatists dwindled away to nothing, and after this period no traces of it are any where to be found.
Page 156 - Adrumetum, and others, were led into a notion, " That God not only predestinated the wicked to eternal punishment, but also to the guilt and transgression for which they are punished ; and that thus both the good and bad actions of all men were determined from eternity by a divine decree, and fixed by an invincible necessity.

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