We believe in accordance with evangelic and apostolic tradition in one God the Father Almighty, the creator, the maker and provider of all things.
How poor evangelic men may get the gracious influence of gold.
And when they are told that Calvinism honours the sovereignty of God, and exalts the grace of Christ, their religious and holy feelings are enlisted in a cause which little deserves these high and evangelic eulogies.
The advocates of scriptural truth have not failed to expose, with holy indignation and eloquent remonstrance, the inconsistency of these views of the divine government with the entire scope and spirit of the evangelic economy of grace.
When in Germany he was an earnest listener to Luther's preaching, became his friend and correspondent, a devout confessor and patron of the evangelic faith, and the wise establisher of the Reformation in his kingdom.
Luther was still a Papist, and thought to grow his plants of evangelic faith under the shadow of the Upas of ecclesiasticism.
The evangelic elements of his system he found ready to his hand, as thought out by Luther and the German theologians.
It was not mere negation to an oppressive hierarchy, except as it was first positive and evangelic touching the direct and indefeasible relations and obligations of the soul to its Maker.
Staupitz was astounded at the young brother's thorough mastery of the sacred Word, the minuteness of his knowledge of it, and the power with which he expounded and defended the great principles of the evangelic faith.
Owen and Bishop Tillotson, as well as from his own studies of the Scriptures, he was deeply grounded in the main principles of the evangelic faith.
The rage of war, inherent to the human species, could not be healed by the evangelic precepts of charity and peace; and the ambition of Catholic princes has renewed in every age the calamities of hostile contention.
Even the Canticles themselves never pass beyond the strict bounds of the Gospel--they never exceed that measure which the strictest rules of evangelic truth would prescribe.
Nothing can be more perfect, I believe, than all this in the harmonies and lights of a spiritual mind, according to the strictest sense of evangelic truth.
The heads of the Evangelic Union had been silent but not inactive spectators of the movements in Bohemia.
But insensibly won by the principles of this religion, he abandoned a leader whose selfishness denied him the reimbursement of the monies expended in his cause, and he transferred his zeal and a victorious sword to the Evangelic Union.
As we review the whole, and ask ourselves, What is the occasion of this strange new presentation of the evangelic message?
The growth of Christianity in the Greek-speaking world not only called upon Jerusalem to pour out its treasure of evangelic tradition in the language of the empire, but stimulated a sense of its own increasing need.
The phenomenon must be judged in the light of the disappearance or suppression of all evangelic story save what came under the name of Peter, and the tendency in Acts to bring under his name even the entire apostleship to the Gentiles.
The story has thus been brought to a formal conclusion, the invariable and necessary conclusion of all evangelic narratives.
In a word evangelic tradition as it had hitherto found currency still lacked the fundamental thing in the Christology of Paul--the Incarnation doctrine.
It gladly concedes the possibility of error, and only claims to give an interpretation of the evangelic writings, founded on nature and history.
Evangelic verity become resolved into a single witness to a fabricated text of the IIIrd century.
Westcott and Hort; who, with the purest intentions and most laudable industry, have constructed a Text demonstrably more remote from the Evangelic verity, than any which has ever yet seen the light.
The evangelic labours of many of his Irish disciples, are matter of history in the Gallic Church.
It may however be taken as being in a certain sense one of the prophetic or evangelic series which was afterwards to stretch to such strange lengths.
Part of this reappears with no less vigour of evangelic assertion in the Auguries of Innocence, but stripped of the repellent haze of mythological form.
Germany Protestantism bestowed on me the undeserved honour of crediting me with a conversion to the evangelic faith, another report was circulating that I had gone over to Catholicism.
Whether there is more fidelity among wives of the evangelic faith, I shall not attempt to discuss.
England produced the apostle of Germany; and the evangelic light was gradually diffused from the neighborhood of the Rhine, to the nations of the Elbe, the Vistula, and the Baltic.
Rule and Lyon, during one entire year, preached Evangelic truth in a Church at Cadiz.
He departed in high spirits, exclaiming, "Be of good cheer, Don Jorge; before we return we will have disposed of every copy of your evangelic library.
The application of the prophecy to the evangelic history is plain and appropriate.
Now, there is in the evangelic history a cumulation of testimony which belongs hardly to any other history, but which our habitual mode of reading the Scriptures sometimes causes us to overlook.
