Fragments of these schisms, scraps of these heresies which for centuries had divided the Churches of the Orient and the Occident, returned to him.
He was even represented swung up in a basket in his own thinking-shop and giving utterance to innumerable heresies and follies.
We can settle ourselves as it were, in that easy, neutral smoking-room of literature, where we can put off broadcloth for fustian; and utter our heresies with still a chance left us of being forgiven.
It is extravagant to insist on being refuted from Scripture, when you revive heresies which were condemned by the universal Council of Constance.
The merely natural man confirms himself against divine providence in that there have been so many heresies in Christendom and still are, such as Quakerism, Moravianism, Anabaptism, and more.
In view of that peril the Lord also tolerates evils of life and many heresies in worship, the tolerance of which will be the subject of the following chapter.
Volumes are filled with confirmations of the two heresies prevalent in Christendom.
What has been said may show whence dissensions and heresies come.
That sense can therefore be seized upon to confirm heresies of many kinds.
Butler, impulsive and generous, learned and able, embodied all the heresiesof the South-Carolina Nullifiers.
In the Abolitionists he found the chief disturbers of the Republic, and he held New England answerable to posterity and to God for all the heresies which afflicted either Church or State.
There is no doubt that the Albigensian and other heresiesof the twelfth and thirteenth centuries contained Manichean elements.
In the West the change seems to have been brought about mainly by two causes, the development of heresies and the increasing prominence of the devil.
When these heresies were all enumerated and compared with the opinions of Cotton and Wheelwright, only five points of possible heterodoxy on their part appeared.
They were pure from all theheresies of an age, to which every opinion is become a favourite, that the universal church has, hitherto, detested.
The presbyterians afterwards thought they should more speedily put an end to the heresies of Earbury by power than by argument; and, by soliciting general Fairfax, procured his removal.
Here they had enough to dispute in regard to the so-called indifferent things, (Adiaphora,) and the heresies of Osiander.
I am rejoiced that Mr. Emerson has uttered no heresies about our High Priest of Nature.
The more heresies and divisions exerted their destroying and dissolving power, while the Church went on expanding in bulk, every divine service in private houses was forbidden.
For here it was not a crowd of heresies which surrounded her, but the secular power at Rome, at Carthage, at Toulouse and Bordeaux, at Seville and Barcelona, spoke Arian.
But to return to our subject:—Upon a review of these times, we may notice the distractions of the church by means of the various heresies which imbittered against each other the different professions of the Christian faith.
They seemed still to be exactly where their forefathers were when they schismatized from the covenant of works, and to consider as dangerous heresies all innovations good or bad.
This last was naturally directed against the agent selected to execute the multiplied reformations, which their heresies had rendered necessary.
The elegant one of Hume seems intended to disguise and discredit the good principles of the government, and is so plausible and pleasing in its style and manner, as to instil its errors and heresies insensibly into the minds of unwary readers.
Against both these heresies the Church has always maintained that the will remains free under the influence of efficacious grace.
Just as the heresies of the Jews and Pharisees were about opinions relating to Judaism or Pharisaism, so also heresies among Christians are about matter touching the Christian faith.
Now heresiesare necessary in the Church, since the Apostle says (1 Cor.
For just as there are heresies and sects among Christians, so were there among the Jews, and Pharisees, as Isidore observes (Etym.
Scriptures in any sense but that of the Holy Ghost by Whom they were written, may be called a heretic, though he may not have left the Church": and elsewhere he says that "heresies spring up from words spoken amiss.
Indeed, I regard it as something that is now needed to help Christendom in its troubles, and especially to destroy the heresies which are at present devastating Europe.
In 1567 he began his theology at Padua, but towards the end of his course, he went to Louvain to study the prevailing heresies of the day at close range.
Nearly at the same time there appeared another, who was classed as a Lutheran, although he seems to have worked out his heresies independently.
He had wandered, he said, on foot for two years through the whole Peninsula, from Catalonia and Navarre to Lisbon, disseminating his heresies wherever he could find a listener, especially among the clergy.
In fact, when Luther argued that the burning of heretics was contrary to the will of the Spirit, Leo X included this among his heresies condemned in the bull Exsurge Domine.
He was pertinacious until the flames had roasted him one side, when his resolution gave way; he professed conversion and was rescued, but some years later he was found to be still cherishing his heresies and, in 1335, he was burnt alive.
His special heresies are not recorded, but they led to his trial by the Seville tribunal, which confiscated his property and discharged him as insane.
And, of all others, the teachers of the Lutheran heresies are in no way to be pardoned.
I hazarded some feeble remonstrance against these revolutionary heresies (as I conceived them to be), but my opponent met me on all sides with his inflexible logic.
Whoever has read Tertullian's withering condemnation of Marcion may judge how far the fathers of the Church favored the heresies of the East.
All these mystical heresies may seem turbid and chaotic; but the legend or subject-matter of the present book is transparent as water, lucid as flame, compared to much of Blake's subsequent work.
For this is that which he writeth in his first Epistle to the Corinthians: 'There must (quoth he) beheresies also, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
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