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... says one , an uniting , says the other , of two , of God and man in one person . Shall I ask what needs all this ? what needed God to have put himself to this ? I may say with St. Augustine , Alio modo poterat Deus nos liberare , sed si ...
... says one , an uniting , says the other , of two , of God and man in one person . Shall I ask what needs all this ? what needed God to have put himself to this ? I may say with St. Augustine , Alio modo poterat Deus nos liberare , sed si ...
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... ( says that father ) there may be danger in giving ourselves leave to think or study too much of it . Ne dixeris quando ( says he ) præteri hanc interrogationem , Ask not thyself over - curiously when this mystery was accomplished : be ...
... ( says that father ) there may be danger in giving ourselves leave to think or study too much of it . Ne dixeris quando ( says he ) præteri hanc interrogationem , Ask not thyself over - curiously when this mystery was accomplished : be ...
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... says the same author ; curious dressings are for public eyes , and the virgin that desires to publish herself , is weary of that state . It is usefully added by him , Dum per- cutitur oculis alienis , frons duratur , et pudor teritur ...
... says the same author ; curious dressings are for public eyes , and the virgin that desires to publish herself , is weary of that state . It is usefully added by him , Dum per- cutitur oculis alienis , frons duratur , et pudor teritur ...
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... says St. Augustine , when it says , born of the Virgin Mary ; and St. Ambrose clears it , when he says , with such indignation , De via iniquitatis produntur dicere , virgo concepit , sed non virgo generavit , It is said that there are ...
... says St. Augustine , when it says , born of the Virgin Mary ; and St. Ambrose clears it , when he says , with such indignation , De via iniquitatis produntur dicere , virgo concepit , sed non virgo generavit , It is said that there are ...
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... says , The Father which sent me , gave me a commandment what I should say , and what I should speak13 : so for all that which he did or suf- fered , he says , My meat is to do his will that sent me , and to finish his work1 : and so ...
... says , The Father which sent me , gave me a commandment what I should say , and what I should speak13 : so for all that which he did or suf- fered , he says , My meat is to do his will that sent me , and to finish his work1 : and so ...
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Page 371 - The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger : But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
Page 1 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 63 - Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Page 54 - And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Page 323 - David :" secondly, that he was " declared to be the Son of God by the resurrection from the dead.
Page 197 - My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death ; Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place!
Page 336 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 537 - They have moved me to Jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 223 - As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldst not, as of a prince whom thou couldst not look upon, will trouble thine eyes, if the wind blow it thither ; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the church-yard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce — This is the patrician ; this is the noble flour, and this the yeomanly, this the plebeian bran.
Page 27 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.