Cyprian: the Churchman

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Jennings and Graham, 1906 - 226 стор.
 

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Сторінка 146 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Сторінка 130 - Thine1 — those rich men, those men affluent with abounding wealth — whether in the church wherein Thou presidest and beholdest, they set forth a gift of that kind, — having pledged or scattered their riches, yea, having transferred them, by the change of their possessions for the better, into heavenly treasures ! In those spectacles of mine, perishing and earthly as they are, no one is fed, no one is clothed, no one is sustained by the comfort either of any meat or drink. All things, between...
Сторінка 189 - I am a Christian and a bishop. I know no other gods but the one and true God who made Heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them. This God we Christians serve ; to Him we pray day and night, for ourselves and for all men and for the safety of the emperors themselves.
Сторінка 178 - Now we know that God heareth not sinners : but if any man be a +worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Сторінка 160 - ... easily have mercy upon you whom you have declared not to be your God ? You must pray more eagerly and entreat ; you must spend the day in grief; wear out nights in watchings and weepings ; occupy all your time in wailful lamentations ; lying stretched on the ground, you must cling close to the ashes, be surrounded with sackcloth and filth ; after losing the raiment of Christ, you must be willing now to have no clothing ; after the devil's meat, you must prefer fasting ; be earnest in righteous...
Сторінка 184 - God, who does not hold the unity and truth that arise from the divine law, but maintains heresies against the church? Does he give glory to God, who, a friend of heretics and an enemy to Christians, thinks that the priests of God, who support the truth of Christ and the unity of the church, are to be excommunicated ? If glory is thus given to God, if the fear and the discipline of God is thus preserved by His worshippers and His priests, let us cast away our arms; let us give ourselves up to captivity...
Сторінка 198 - Lord's commands, and according to what you have so very often learnt from my discourse, keep peace and tranquillity ; nor let any of you stir up any tumult for the brethren, or voluntarily offer himself to the Gentiles. For when apprehended and delivered up, he ought to speak, inasmuch as the Lord abiding in us speaks in that hour, who willed that we should rather confess than profess. But for the rest, what it is fitting that we should observe before the proconsul passes sentence on me for the confession...
Сторінка 153 - Son to preserve us and give us life, in order that lie might restore us ; and that the Son was -willing' to be sent and to become the Son of man, that He might make us sons of God ; humbled Himself, that He might raise up the people who before were prostrate...
Сторінка 168 - He that holds not this unity of the Church, does he believe that he holds the faith? He who strives and rebels against the Church, he who deserts the Chair of Peter on which the Church was founded, does he trust that he is in the Church?

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