For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace ; but the Spirit is truth. The history of creeds - Page 202de Philip Schaff - 1919Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1883 - 560 pages
...but defraud themselves of life by perverse opinions and evil works. For where the Church is, he adds, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God is, there is all grace, and the Spirit is truth. Therefore they who do not partake of the Spirit are neither fed... | |
| William Edward Addis - 1884 - 952 pages
...her, and with it the " Holy Spirit, the pledge of incorruption and confirmation of our faith. . . . Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God, and...Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace ; and the Spirit is truth."3 Hence to be outside of the Church is the same thing as to be outside of... | |
| William Edward Addis, Thomas Arnold - 1884 - 916 pages
...her, and with it the "Holy Spirit, the pledge of incorruption and confirmation of our faith. . . . Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God, and...Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace ; and the Spirit is truth."3 Hence to be outside of the Church is the same thing as to be outside of... | |
| Joseph Faà di Bruno - 1884 - 472 pages
...truth, is come, he will teach you all truth" (xiv. 16, 17; and xvi. 13). Hence St. Irenseus says : " For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God, and...Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace ; and the Spirit of Truth." (Against Heresies, vol. iii., c. xxiv.) The necessity of believing the... | |
| 1884 - 526 pages
...the Church, but by their evil sentiment and most flagrant conduct, defraud themselves of life. For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God, and...where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and every grace: but the Spirit is truth. Whercfoz-e, they who do not partake of that (Spirit), are neither... | |
| Philip Schaff - 1884 - 906 pages
...on earth. " Where the church is," says he, putting the church first, in the genuine catholic spirit, "there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God is there is all grace."4 Only on the bosom of the church, continues he, can we be nursed to life. To her must we... | |
| Philip Schaff - 1885 - 324 pages
..."Catholicism emphasizes the first, Protestantism the second, clause of the passage of Irenaeus : ' Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God ;...Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace.' " We may modify this and say with the same propriety : " Where Christ is, there is the Church : " this... | |
| Baltimore Publishing Company - 1885 - 562 pages
...and the same spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will." And St. Irenseus says : " Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God. And...where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and every grace." The Church, the Holy Ghost and every grace, that is all the virtues, the observance of... | |
| Henry Clay Sheldon - 1886 - 486 pages
...doctrines, and hence an alien position as regards the grace of Christ. " Where the Church is," says he, " there is the Spirit of God ; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace ; but the Spirit is truth. Those, therefore, who do not partake of Him, are neither... | |
| Abel Hastings Ross - 1887 - 422 pages
...the Church, but defraud themselves of life through their perverse opinions and infamous behavior. For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God;:...where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church." 7 Here the Church is the visible body with its officers, and it is made identical with the invisible... | |
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