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4701 The Everlasting Covenant, p. 401.3 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… His church, His body, the people whom He has chosen and called out of the world, are to form no part of the world, although in it. It is to make no sort of alliance with …
4702 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 49.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the churches of his own planting there were elements of corruption that would eventually contaminate the whole body. If we examine the record, we can detect …
4703 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 52.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… true church is the body of Christ; it is composed of those who are indeed united to Christ, who draw strength from him, and who walk as he walked. To the Ephesians …
4704 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 52.3 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
To the Colossians he wrote thus concerning Christ:— “And he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.” Colossians 1:18 .
4705 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 53.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the church at Corinth he wrote:— “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. For by …
4706 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 54.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… professed church is not necessarily identical with the church which is the body of Christ. There are many who profess Christ, and who teach in his name, whom …
4707 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 68.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… Christian church, corrupted the whole body. Their very learning made them the more detrimental to true Christianity; for it -caused them to be looked up to …
4708 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 70.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… heavenly bodies as literally engaged in acts of devotion. If these authorities are to be credited, the Gihon, one of the rivers of Paradise, was no other than …
4709 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 107.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the church as the body of Jesus Christ. In the ‘Catholic Church’—an expression introduced by him—that is, the Episcopal orthodox organization of his day, the …
4710 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 109.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the churches, and impress on them all, that I shall willingly die for God, unless ye hinder me. I beseech of you not to show an unseasonable good-will toward me …
4711 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 162.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… Christian church was even then being corrupted by heathen magic, which is what was now seen in the manifestations of modern Spiritualism. Yet although Justin …
4712 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 174.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… of churches conspiring so as to form one body and one assemblage.
4713 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 192.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the body as a means of self-redemption, after being theoretically exterminated, stole into the church by a back door of practice, directly in face of the Christian …
4714 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 201.4 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the church. In his address, “ Ad Nationes ” (book 1, chap. 12), we find the following:—“As for him who affirms that we are ‘the priesthood of a cross,’ we shall claim him as our …
4715 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 214.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the church. It is the second chapter of “The Passion of Perpetua,” and explains itself:— “After a few days, whilst we were all praying, on a sudden, in the middle of our …
4716 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 255.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the church. “By one spirit are we all baptized into one body.” This is admitted by those who administer to infants what they term “baptism,” for Pedobaptists never …
4717 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 260.3 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the church, should think of going rich into Heaven. Cyril of Jerusalem takes notice of this circumstance, together with the reasons of it, when he thus addresses …
4718 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 264.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… Catholic Church, was not confined to church ceremonies, but was connected with almost every act of life. Says Gibbon:— “In all occasions of danger and distress …
4719 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 265.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… Christian church, it had its origin in heathenism. Says Dr. Killen:— “It is a curious fact that the figure of the instrument of torture on which our Lord was put …
4720 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 283.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the church, and prepares the way for the last feature that we design to consider:— “Those idle fictions, which a regard for the Platonic philosophy and for the …