The Present Condition and Prospects of the Greek, Or Oriental, Church: With Some Letters Written from the Convent of the StrophadesMurray, 1829 - 207 páginas |
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... Pope and the forms of his government ; and it is believed that their fidelity is occasionally encouraged by the remittance of considerable sums of money . Some remains of the Nestorians are found in Chaldea , Mesopotamia , Persia , & c ...
... Pope and the forms of his government ; and it is believed that their fidelity is occasionally encouraged by the remittance of considerable sums of money . Some remains of the Nestorians are found in Chaldea , Mesopotamia , Persia , & c ...
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... Pope's supremacy . A controversy between consecrated prejudice and scholastic sophistry could hope for no termination ; and thus at length it became the means to produce that celebrated Schism , which would have possessed much less real ...
... Pope's supremacy . A controversy between consecrated prejudice and scholastic sophistry could hope for no termination ; and thus at length it became the means to produce that celebrated Schism , which would have possessed much less real ...
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... Pope , also suffered a violent death not long afterwards ; and though the hope of effecting the union of the Churches , which Rome had permitted herself to revive , appears to have been finally extinguished by this event , still she did ...
... Pope , also suffered a violent death not long afterwards ; and though the hope of effecting the union of the Churches , which Rome had permitted herself to revive , appears to have been finally extinguished by this event , still she did ...
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... Pope , and are said to receive from Rome , not only their spiritual instructor , but the temporal reward of their submission . The Maronite resides at Da- mascus ; but the most numerous sect is the Jaco- bite , and perhaps its zeal may ...
... Pope , and are said to receive from Rome , not only their spiritual instructor , but the temporal reward of their submission . The Maronite resides at Da- mascus ; but the most numerous sect is the Jaco- bite , and perhaps its zeal may ...
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... pope . Divided by the narrow Adriatic , on the one side we see wealth , arrogance , and the assumption of temporal power ; on the other , poverty , insecurity , and helpless dependence . And we next perceive with respect to the system ...
... pope . Divided by the narrow Adriatic , on the one side we see wealth , arrogance , and the assumption of temporal power ; on the other , poverty , insecurity , and helpless dependence . And we next perceive with respect to the system ...
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The present condition and prospects of the Greek or Oriental church George Waddington Vista completa - 1829 |
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Página 207 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth : for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Página 20 - Genius may anticipate the season of maturity ; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded : nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the works of his predecessors.
Página 45 - ... receiving the Sacrament, contains these words : " I believe that this is thy most pure body indeed, and that this is thy holy blood indeed.
Página 44 - Russian doctors, is effected by the influence and operation of the Holy Ghost, when the bishop or priest invokes God the Father in these words— 'And make this bread the precious body of thy Christ.•
Página 64 - The greatest part of it varies every day in the year, and- every part of the day, except in the...
Página 59 - for we know that an idol is nothing in the world,' 1 Cor. viii, 4), to the work of their hands they bow down, to that which their fingers have made, one of the great absurdities charged by the prophets on idolaters, " as if that could be a god to them which was not only 'a creature but their own creature
Página 53 - Christ is invisibly present to receive thy confession ; be not ashamed therefore or afraid, and conceal nothing from me ; but without equivocation tell me whatsoever thou hast done, that thou mayest receive forgiveness from our Lord Jesus Christ. Behold his image before us; I am only a witness to testify before him whatsoever thou shall say unto me; but if thou concealest anything from me, thou shalt have double sin.
Página 203 - There is atradition of magnificentgardensformerlyflourishing on the northern coast, which have been washed away by the tempests, and an old sepulchre was lately found there, in an abrupt bank of difficult access, which may possibly contain others. " Thus you see, among the sacred things of this untravelled spot, how large a proportion still are caves and fountains. You see how li ttle the spirit of its sanctity has been affected by the change of its religion — how little it ceased to be Grecian,...
Página 203 - ... of education and fewer opportunities of learning the truths contained in the Bible, the traveller finds reason to say, " Thus you see among the sacred things of this untravelled spot (the principal island of the Strophades), how large a proportion still are caves and fountains ; you see how little the spirit of its sanctity has been affected by the change of its religion ; how little it ceased to be Grecian when it became Christian.
Página 41 - a ceremony or act appointed by God, in which God giveth or signifieth to us His grace.