 | George Hill - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...subject. He is professing to account for the rapid growth of the Christian church. His fifth cause is the union and discipline of the Christian republic, which gradually formed an independent state ; and his account of the manner of its formation extends through the three first centuries of... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 194
...this sceptical writer, for the progress of Christianity, is ' the union and discipline of the Church, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Empire.' How far this might have contributed to such a result, after the Church became fully established,... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...question ever recurs, whence did the Christians derive their superior purity ? The fifth cause is " the union and discipline of the Christian republic,...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire." But whence did they derive their union, but from their mutual love, for there was no genera]... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive church. 4th, The pure and austere morals of the Christians. 5th, The union and discipline of the Christian republic,...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire." Nothing but the force of truth could have extorted from so determined an opposer of the Gospel,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...by every additional circumstance which could give weight and efficacy to that important truth. 111. The Miraculous Powers ascribed to the primitive church....and the FACT is (as we have already shown from the • Gibbon'8 Decline and Fall, vol. ii. p. 267. testimonies of heathen as well as of Christian writers),1... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 784
...the general tone of his disquisition upon it may be easily inferred. This he alleges to have been " The union and discipline of the Christian Republic,...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman Empire." Would any one suppose that this language referred to the primitive Christian church, and was... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive church. 4. The pure and austere morals of the christians. 5. The union and discipline of the christian republic,...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire. — Haldane's Evidences. GENERAL EXPECTATION OF THE MESSIAH. I had collected many more documents... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...the five causes which we have to examine is — " the union and discipline of the Christian church, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire." The short answer to this assertion is, that in the early history of Christianity no such unity... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...church. IV. The pure and austere morals of thf¿chrisíians. V. The union and discipline of the chrïtian republic, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Homan empire. Тнк FIRST !• ^e nave already described the reCAÜSE. Zeal of ligious harmony of... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...the five causes which we have to examine is — " the union and discipline of the Christian church, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire." The short answer to this assertion is, that in the early history of Christianity no such unity... | |
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The miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive church. IV. The pure and austere morals of the Christians. V. The union and discipline of the Christian republic, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire. 
