Church of the past had regarded Christ exclusively as a stern Judge, was crushingly confuted in Denifle’s work.
This untruth, clearly confuted as it was by facts, passed from Luther’s lips to those of his disciples.
Formerly he annoyed and confuted the Papacy, now he draws his head out of the noose.
But my fifth argument standeth against you untouched; you have not denied, much less confuted the least syllable thereof.
If any shall count my papers worth the scribbling against, let him deal with my arguments, and things immediately depending upon them, and not conclude that he hath confuted a book, when he hath only quarrelled at words.
His confession of the presbytery’s power and authority, we catch and lay hold on; but whereas he would have this power any way proper and personal to bishops, he is confuted by our former arguments.
This I confuted in my Nihil Respondes: and told him both of the order of the church and practice of conscientious ministers to the contrary.
I confuted the whole argument drawn from his own heart to the hearts of others, and gave several answers: but neither before, nor now, hath he offered to make good his argument.
I here mean the tenets of the Epicurean atheists as they are termed by the very learned Mr. Baxter in his treatise of the immortality of the soul; where he has confuted them at large in the first volume of that admirable work.
He was wicked, to shut his eyes against the Scriptures; and worthy men in England have since confuted him to all intents and purposes.
But as the partie confuted may not replie on that daie, so one man can not speake twise to one bill in one daie though he would change his opinion, but on the next he may speake againe, & yet but once as afore.
As for the small tariance of the sunne with vs, it is also confuted by the length of our daies.
Other arguments which are brought for the confirmation of purgatorie, are of late so confuted by many godly and learned men, that it is maruaile our aduersaries will so often repeate them.
But in no instance was his superiority oppressive; calm, attentive, and cheerful, he confuted more gracefully than others compliment; the tone of dogmatism and the smile of contempt were equally unknown to him.
Godwin's and Condorcet's extravagancies were not worth confuting; and yet I thought that the Essay on 'Population' had not confuted them.
How oft hath he confutedthine unbelief, and shamed thy distrustful fears and cares!
Moses wrought numerous open miracles, and such as controlled and confuted the contradicters' seeming miracles in Egypt; and Christ and his apostles wrought more than Moses.
It is ambiguity and confusion that breedeth and feedeth almost all our pernicious controversies; and even those that bring in error by vain distinction, must be confuted by better distinguishers, and not by ignorant confounders.
She also had considerable influence in church and state; and the famous synod, with Oswy presiding, when Wilfrid confuted Colman in the Easter controversy, was held in her abbey.
It is evident, had the queen laid eggs after matters were thus disposed, that Swammerdam's hypothesis would have acquired probability; and on the contrary it would have been confuted had she produced no eggs, or only sterile ones.
Though this conjecture is probable, it is confuted by observation.
With good right, therefore, this same Farinacci is expressly confuted and overthrown by Matthaeus.
Furthermore, Rollandus in the said council is expressly confuted by Facchinus.
In that, I have confutedsingly his proofs, or rather suspicions, resulting from the prosecution, to which his Honour attaches himself.
Salamanca, Columbus confuted by the Council of, ii.
Sidenote: Is confuted by the Council of Salamanca.
Let him therefore declare his judgment that those unrighteous should be baptized afresh whom Cyprian confuted within the Church itself; or let him who can say if those are not unrighteous who renounce the world in words and not in deeds.
The poet having thusconfuted the two errors concerning happiness, the philosophical and popular, and proved that true happiness was neither solitary and partial, nor yet placed in externals, goes on, from ver.
Now how can you believe a matter so plainly confuted by your very senses?
And this opinion is confuted by the Philosopher in that book of his on Sense and Sensation.
