 | 692 pages
...God has wedded the church. Lovely it might he, to have a son that were lord of this world, hut fairer much it were to have a son in God, who, as a memher of holy church, shall ascend to lu-uven ! And for this cause, Jesus Christ left other works,... | |
 | Thomas Murray - 1829 - 198 pages
...the end for which God has wedded the church, and for this cause Jesus Christ occupied himself most in preaching, and thus did his apostles, — •and for this, God loved them. Christ, when he ascended into heaven, commanded it especially to all his apostles, to preach the Gospel... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1831 - 458 pages
..." wedded the church. Lovely it might be, to have " a son that were lord of this world, but fairer " much it were to have a son in God, who, as a " member of holy church, shall ascend to heaven! 'r And for this cause, Jesus Christ left other works, " arid occupied himself mostly in preaching;... | |
 | Margaret Coxe - 1840 - 282 pages
...God has wedded the Church. Lovely it might be, to have a son that were lord of this world, but fairer much it were, to have a son in God, who as a member of the holy Church, should ascend to heaven ! And for this cause, Jesus Christ left other works, and occupied... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1841 - 216 pages
...God has wedded the church. Lovely it might be to have a son that were lord of this world ; but fairer much it were to have a son in God, who, as a member of the holy church, should ascend to heaven. And for this cause Jesus Christ left other works, and occupied... | |
 | August Neander - 1854 - 456 pages
...God has wedded the church. Lovely it might be, to have a son that were lord of this world, but fairer much it were to have a son in God, who, as a member...thus did his apostles, and for this God loved them." He cites in proof the words of Christ, Luke xi., 28. In a treatise on the Feigned Contemplative Life,»... | |
 | Mrs. Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant - 1856 - 500 pages
...far to have a son in God, who, as member of holy church, shall ascend to heaven. And for this reason, Christ left other works, and occupied himself mostly...thus did his apostles, and for this God loved them." — " Jesus Christ, when he ascended to heaven, commanded it especially to all his disciples, to go... | |
 | August Neander - 1858 - 730 pages
...be, to have a son that were lord of this world, but fairer much it were to have a son in God, who, M a member of holy church, shall ascend to heaven !...thus did his apostles, and for this God loved them." He cites in proof the words of Christ, Luke xi. 28. In a treatise on the Feigned Contemplative Life,§... | |
 | August Neander - 1872 - 464 pages
...God has wedded the church. Lovely it might be, to have a son that were lord of this world, but fairer much it were to have a son in God, who, as a member...thus did his apostles, and for this God loved them." He cites in proof the words of Christ, Luke xi., 28. In a treatise on the Feigned Contemplative Life,6... | |
 | William Marshall - 1875 - 338 pages
...produce children to God. Surely it might be well to have a son that were lord of this world ; but fairer much it were to have a son in God, who, as a member...thus did His apostles, and for this God loved them. And accordingly, Jesus Christ, when He ascended into heaven, commended it specially to all His apostles... | |
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God, who, as a member of Holy Church, shall ascend to Heaven ! And for this cause Jesus Christ left other works, and occupied himself mostly in preaching ; and thus did his apostles, and for this God loved them. 
