 | Godfrey Faussett - 1820 - 398 pages
...not the *f kingdom of Godb." Not less decisive are expressions of the venerable Cyprian ; " He cannot have God for his father, who " has not the Church for his mother0." " He who holds not this unity, holds not " the law of God, holds not the faith of " the Father... | |
 | George Hay (bp. of Daulis.) - 1822 - 402 pages
...in the Church," Epist. 62, alias 4. And in his book on the unity of the Church, he says, " He cannot have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother. If any one could escape who was out of the ark of Noah, then he who is out of the Church may also escape."... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1826 - 430 pages
...the old, unaltered, and unalterable ecclesiastical maxim, tell us, that " It is impossible for him to have God for his father, who has not the Church for his mother :" — " Habere non potest Deum patrem, qui Ecclesiam non habet matrem." 738 ... | |
 | John Milner - 1827 - 620 pages
...concord. This unity cannot suffer a division, nor this one body bear to be disjointed. — He cannot have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his Mother. If any one could escape the deluge out of Noah's ark, he who is out of the Church inay also escape. —... | |
 | William Henry Coombes - 1827 - 504 pages
...Christ, who leaves the church of Christ: he is an alien ; he is a profane man; he is an enemy. He cannot have God for his father, who has not the church for his mother l ." Language more appropriate, forcible, and decisive, is not to be found, than what St. Cyprian here... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, John Baptist Purcell - 1837 - 372 pages
...numerous progeny. We are her offspring, we are nourished with her milk, we are animated with her spirit, He can no longer have God for his father, who has not the church for his mother. If any one out of the ark of Noe could escape, so likewise he that is out of the church may escape. The... | |
 | 1837 - 528 pages
...life." For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God. And in St. Cyprian's opinion, he cannot have GOD for his Father who has not the Church for his Mother. Hence the privileges of the Christian Church, such as Remission of Sins, the Grace of the Holy Spirit,... | |
 | John Hoppus - 1839 - 634 pages
...similar to that of Cyprian ; who describes the factious, proud, invidious separatist, as an ' alien ; for he can no longer have God for his father, who has not the church for his mother : and even if such persons were slain in the act of confessing the name of God, this blot would not... | |
 | David Aitchison - 1839 - 156 pages
...paid to the sacred volume ? Truly hath it been affirmed by Cyprian, bishop and martyr, that he cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother. The everlasting word hath declared that the church is the spouse of Christ, who is the brightness of... | |
 | George Buckmaster Gibbons - 1839 - 564 pages
...Christ, who relinquishes the Church of Christ. He is an alien, he is profane, he is an enemy. He cannot have God for his father, who has not the Church for his mother." — Cyprian de Unit. Ecc. p. 109. Edit. Amstd. NOTE S. p. 22. — " They that are enemies to brotherly... | |
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He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother. 
