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60461 Facts of Faith, p. 115.3 (Christian Edwardson)
The elections of bishops were attended with secret corruption and bloody violence, which was only too natural for that kind of “Christians.” Edward Gibbon says of these elections:
60462 Facts of Faith, p. 118.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… place naturally suited for their protection, being situated where Switzerland, France, and Italy join. They could, therefore, more easily get protection …
60463 Facts of Faith, p. 118.3 (Christian Edwardson)
… by nature on account of their many difficult passes and bulwarks of rocks and mountains; as if the all-wise Creator, says Sir Samuel Morland, had, from the beginning …
60464 Facts of Faith, p. 133.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… the nature of their church doctrines, rushed in and butchered men, women, and children in cold blood. Unspeakable tortures were inflicted on the innocent …
60465 Facts of Faith
… were naturally ignorant of many novelties introduced by the councils and decrees of the Lateran; and their conformity with the faith and practice of the …
60466 Facts of Faith, p. 156.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… as natural friends and allies, and rejoiced at their coming. But the Portuguese were much disappointed at finding the St. Thomas Christians firmly fixed …
60467 Facts of Faith, p. 177.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… sinful nature; to deliver them from which, and to restore them through a Mediator to unfeigned obedience to the holy law, is one great end of the gospel, and of …
60468 Facts of Faith, p. 178.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… of nature, partly by the deceptions and promptings of the devil,’ had ventured to adopt and keep holy days, which neither God nor the holy Church had ordained …
60469 Facts of Faith, p. 182.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… the nature of God, says nothing about which day. The third [fourth] commandment simply reads thus: ‘Remember that thou keep holy the rest day,’ it does not say the …
60470 Facts of Faith, p. 183.3 (Christian Edwardson)
… righteous nature, and hence is immutable as God Himself.” — Pp. 5, 6.
60471 Facts of Faith, p. 187.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… can naturally understand. But why living Christians, zealous workers in the church, want it removed, that I cannot understand.” — Id., p. 12.
60472 Facts of Faith, p. 193.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… , man’s nature has been inclined toward evil; and while he still has the power of choice, he cannot in his own strength break with sin, change his nature, or live …
60473 Facts of Faith, p. 194.3 (Christian Edwardson)
The life of Jesus on earth was a living demonstration of this mystery. He combined in His own person both the human and the divine natures. “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.” 1 Timothy 3:16 .
60474 Facts of Faith, p. 204.3 (Christian Edwardson)
… fallen nature is opposed to the divine will; therefore he cannot by his own effort live a godly life, nor can he change his own heart. ( Isaiah 59:1; Romans 8:7; Jeremiah …
60475 Facts of Faith, p. 205.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… our nature upon Himself (not some higher kind of flesh). ” Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part …
60476 Facts of Faith, p. 235.2 (Christian Edwardson)
(4) It would exercise its power “ before ” the papal beast ( verse 12 ), showing that it is not a Catholic nation, nor counted as part of the papal confederacy, therefore it would naturally be a Protestant nation to begin with.
60477 Facts of Faith, p. 256.5 (Christian Edwardson)
… and nature ... that each is free to think on every subject just as he may choose.... In a society grounded upon such maxims, all government is nothing more nor less …
60478 Facts of Faith, p. 258.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… by nature and the law of God - to endeavour to bring back all civil society to the pattern and form of Christianity which We have described.... Both these objects …
60479 Facts of Faith
… very nature of things, connect the interests of religion with those of the state. On the contrary, she is (as she is bound to be) the upholder of those who are themselves …
60480 Facts of Faith, p. 259.5 (Christian Edwardson)
… of nature. Nor should such a gathering together and association of men be accounted as a commonwealth, but only as a deceitful imitation and make-believe …