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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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CONTENTS.XIPAGEFourthly, the Primacy164Instance <strong>of</strong> a doctrine preserved without the WrittenWord1GThis mode <strong>of</strong> transmitting the Truth enjoined by ourLord in his concluding words as given by S. Matthew 1GGDevelopment <strong>of</strong> the Truth in its various relations theproper work <strong>of</strong> such a Body ..... 1G8<strong>The</strong> result a divine life, embracing the intellect and thewill <strong>of</strong> man, produced over against the corrupt life<strong>of</strong> heathenism170Statement <strong>of</strong> S. Augustine to this effect . . . 172CHAPTEKX.THE FIKST AGE OF THE MARTYR CHURCH,<strong>The</strong> Heathendom reigned over by Augustus and Tiberius unconsciousthat there was an order <strong>of</strong> moral truth <strong>of</strong> infinite1 C*, i L I tJ " " * . * 4 * * * * * 177That this truth is bound up with a Person the subject <strong>of</strong> thelast two chapters ........ 179Its recognition, as being so bound up with a Person, by theRoman empire the present subject ..... 181<strong>The</strong> principle <strong>of</strong> persecution lay precisely in this union <strong>of</strong> theTruth with the Person <strong>of</strong> the Godman . . . .182<strong>The</strong> Christian Church for the first ten generations a specialwitness to this union ........ 184Picture <strong>of</strong> the result <strong>of</strong> the Apostolic age, the first seventyyearstiansmpire treated the Christian Faith . . . .188Nero's act for the sub191<strong>The</strong> end <strong>of</strong> the reign <strong>of</strong> Antoninus Pius a fit time for estimatingthe progress <strong>of</strong> the Church . 195Its material extension ...197Its internal growth198Picture <strong>of</strong> it in the epistles <strong>of</strong> S. Ignatius, as the seat <strong>of</strong> au-Communion 199<strong>The</strong> ris by which it resisted them 204m aatius to this power . . 206A C tistians .... 209Pliny's report to him, and his answer * . " . * **j-\j 210at state <strong>of</strong> things th 213 -*- X *J

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