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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 87

The Sabellians.

… Such a view tended directly to dissolve Christian belief in the Trinity and in the Incarnation (Vide Wilberforce, Incarnation, pp. 112, 197). Hence the gentle Dionysius of Alexandria characterised it in severe terms as involving …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 19

Chapter XXII.

… 47. [See Wilberforce's Five Empires, p. 67.] [111] [Castor and Pollux. Imitated in saint worship.]

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 84

Chapter V.--Of the Causes Which Alienate Us from God.

… 14. [650] As Bishop Wilberforce, eloquently describing this condition of mind, says, in his sermon on The Almost Christian, "New, strange wishes were rising in his heart. The Mighty One was brooding over its currents …

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Augustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 4

"O Light Eterne, sole in thyself that dwellest,

… Religions Philosophie, § 89, 90; Wilberforce: Incarnation, Chapter III; Kidd: On the Trinity, with Candlish's Introduction; Shedd: History of Doctrine, I. 365-368. Translator's Preface. ------------------------ The history of St. Augustin's treatise on the …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 52

[817] Propria.

… See William Wilberforce, Practical Christianity, p. 25, ed. London, 1815.] [822] Prævius. [823] Thus St. Paul complains, Rom. vii. 15: "What I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I;" and …

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