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Ecclesiastical History of England, The Church of the Restoration, Vol. 1 of 2
by John StoughtonThe knell of the Puritan Commonwealth was rung when Oliver Cromwell died. The causes of its dissolution may easily be discovered. Some of them had been in operation for a long time, and had prepared for the change which now took place. Puritanism never won a majority of the English people. By some of the greatest in the nation it was espoused, and ..
Stories of the Wars of the Jews
by A. L. O. E. (A Lady of England)The works which I have chiefly consulted in compiling the following sketch, have been (in addition to the Holy Scriptures) the books of the Apocrypha, Josephus’ Wars of the Jews, the elaborate writings of Prideaux, and a small volume on the history of the Hebrews, published some years ago in India.There is no history more fraught with interest, or ..
Biblical Revision, its duties and conditions
by Henry AlfordThe Scribes were the guardians of the law, and its readers and expounders to the people. It is related of Ezra, that he was “a ready scribe in the law of Moses which the Lord God of Israel had given: he had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” But in exercising thi..
Christian Literature
by John StoughtonThe chapter before us is plainly a supplement to the main history. St. John concluded that history under a deep conviction that it was far from a full account of his Master’s wonderful ministry. “Many other signs,” said he, “truly did Jesus, in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.” But in this supplem..
The Book of Light in the Hand of Love
by Charles J. VaughanThe Book was the Book of Light. When you hold it, as this day, closed in your hand; not opening it, for interpretation—that is not your office—but carrying it forth closed for another to open; when you think of it as a whole, gathering into one the scattered rays of its light, that you may say in a word why it is that you are devoting time an..
A Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4)
by Thomas RidgleyA Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4)Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism..
A General History of the Sabbatarian Churches
by Tamar DavisAt the present time, when the Sabbath controversy is engaging so much of the public attention, and when Sabbath Conventions and Sabbath Unions are being chronicled almost monthly, I consider it unnecessary to offer any apology for the introduction of the following work to the public notice. My reader need not fear a repetition or recapitulation of ..
The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople - A Study of Byzantine Building
by William Richard LethabySancta Sophia is the most interesting building on the world’s surface. Like Karnak in Egypt, or the Athenian Parthenon, it is one of the four great pinnacles of architecture, but unlike them this is no ruin, nor does it belong to a past world of constructive ideas although it precedes by seven hundred years the fourth culmination of the building ar..