 | Samuel Miller - 1831 - 338 páginas
...substantially, that ecclesiastical system which existed through the greater part of the Christian Church at the close of the third; and the beginning of the fourth century. A kind of testimony which, of course, falls in with our purpose in examining the testimony of the early... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1835 - 334 páginas
...substantially, that ecclesiastical system which existed through the greater part of the Christian church at the close of the third, and the beginning of the fourth century. A kind of testimony which, of course, falls in with our purpose * Christian Researches in Asia, p.... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1846 - 500 páginas
...hundred years, this high theme has been under debate among Christians. From the first period, between the close of the third and the beginning of the fourth century of the Christian Church, when the elements from which the doctrine of the Trinity was afterwards constructed... | |
 | Church assoc - 1867 - 212 páginas
...first sixty or one hundred years of Christianity. But the Ritualistic Primitive Church is the Church at the close of the third and the beginning of the fourth century. It was primitive in one sense, for it was the beginning of all darkness and superstition. The Bishop... | |
 | 1868 - 846 páginas
...sixty or one hundred years of Christianity ; but the Ritualistic Primitive Church is the Church at the close of the third, and the beginning of the fourth, century. . . . The Bishop tells us that these are the ' points of voluntary conformity to the Mosaic ritual... | |
 | Dudley Marvin Canright - 1882 - 196 páginas
...that it was not regarded as heterodox in those days. From the Third Century to the Reformation. From the close of the third and the beginning of the fourth century, the doctrine of the immortality of the soul seems to have become quite generally established in the... | |
 | Richard Brodhead Westbrook - 1882 - 252 páginas
...D., in his History of the Bible, says that he was bishop of the church of Cajsarca in Palestine at the close of the third and the beginning of the fourth century, and was the personal friend and ecclesiastical adviser of the (so-called) first Christian emperor,... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1884 - 906 páginas
...the number of the Christians must be purely a matter of conjecture. In all probability it amounted at the close of the third and the beginning of the fourth century to nearly one-tenth or one-twelfth of the subjects of Rome, that is to about ten millions of souls.... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1884 - 446 páginas
...the number of the Christians must be purely a matter of conjecture. In all probability it amounted at the close of the third and the beginning of the fourth century to nearly one-tenth or one-twelfth of the subjects of Rome, that is to about ten millions of souls.... | |
 | Robert Henry Charles - 1893 - 424 páginas
...contribution. With the earlier Fathers and Apologists it had all the weight of a canonical book, but towards the close of the third and the beginning of the fourth centuries it began to be discredited, and finally fell under the ban of the 1 For a full account of... | |
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Maximian, in one of his edicts, says that "almost all" had abandoned the worship of their ancestors for the new sect. In the absence of statistics, the number of the Christians must be purely a matter of conjecture. In all probability it amounted at the... 
