The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution, Traced for the First Three Hundred Years

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James Nisbet and Company, 1859 - 656 էջ

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Not a popular assembly
83
Importance of the decision
89
CHAPTER VII
100
His speech on Mars Hill
104
Works at the trade of a tentmaker
111
Position of the Jews in Alexandria
117
First Epistle to the Corinthians
123
Writes the First Epistle to Timothy and the Second Epistle
129
Paul rescued by the chief captain and made a prisoner
136
His voyage to Rome and shipwreck
142
Greatness and luxury of Rome
148
Writes the Epistle to the Hebrews
154
His martyrdom
160
The Jews at first the chief persecutors of the Church
164
Previous position of Paul and Barnabas
168
SECTION II
176
The testimony of their inscriptions
181
Division of the New Testament into chapters and verses
182
Typical meaning of the appointment of the Twelve and
185
CHAPTER II
188
Misinterpretation of Matt xvi
189
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The Deity of Christ
194
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Simon Magus and other heretics mentioned in the New Testa
205
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210
Our Lord recognized the permanent obligation of the Fourth Com
211
Scriptures read publicly
217
Preparations for a great Deliverer and expectation of His appear
222
Profane excluded from the Eucharist
223
Perversion of excommunication by the Church of Rome
229
THE EXTRAORDINARY TEACHERS OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND
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Ministers of the Word should exercise no lordship over each
243
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Why we have not a more particular account of the government
255
James not bishop of Jerusalem
256
The unity of the apostolic Churchin what it consisted
262
The stars not attached to the candlesticks but in the hand
268
Thessalonica and its rulers
273
Why our Lord wrote nothing Himself
279
Remarkable progress of the gospel
280
Persecution promoted the purity of the Church
286
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287
Christianity opposed as a new religion
288
The order in which the Gospels appeared
294
Persecution under Decius
300
Increasing power of Roman bishop
303
Cruelties now practised
306
CHAPTER III
312
The Epistle to Diognetus
367
Clement of Alexandria
373
Cyprianhis training character and writings
381
The excellency of Scripture
387
The story of Ignatius and its difficulties
394
Testimony of Origen
399
The Ignatian Epistles not recognised by Irenæus or Polycarp
400
These letters not known to Tertullian Hippolytus and other early
408
The three Curetonian Letters as objectionable as those formerly
414
Infant Baptism universal in Africa in the days of Cyprian
420
Their puerilities vapouring and mysticism betray their spurious
422
CHAPTER IV
429
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Montanus and his system
436
Doctrine of Venial and Mortal Sins
442
Scripture venerated and studied
446
Christ God and man
452
The Atonement and Justification by Faith
458
tament
459
Psalmody of the Church
464
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475
Errors respecting Baptism and new rites added to the original
480
The manner of preaching 469
490
In the second century fasting preceded Baptism
492
CHAPTER V
499
The presbyters had a chairman or president
505
No parallel to it in more recent times
511
Change of the law of seniority
518
THE RISE OF THE HIERARCHY CONNECTED WITH THE SPREAD OF HERESIES
522
Deportment of the congregation
528
Suggested by the distractions of the Church
529
The primitive moderator and the bishop contrasted
535
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546
The letters of Pius to Justus corroborate this view
547
Polycarp probably dissatisfied with the new arrangements
556
Circumstances in which the system originated
562
Early jealousy towards the bishop of Rome
568
CHAPTER IX
575
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When this practice ceased
581
Difference between ancient and modern bishops
587
Power of the ecclesiastical president increased when elected by
590
Presbyters continued to ordain presbyters and deacons
596
Jealousies and contentions of city bishops
602
A part of the original constitution of the Church
609
Amphictyonic Council did not suggest the establishment of Synods
615
THE CEREMONIES AND DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH AS ILLUSTRATED
623
The holy Catholic Churchwhat it meant
639
Arrogant assumptions of bishops
646
The establishment of the hierarchy a grand mistake
652

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