This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... made it the more pernicious. Furthermore, it affected a clearness as much as the Gnostics did a misty depth of utterance; accordingly, it had so many followers that it could divide them in groups, which organized under a Hierarchy, after the model of Christianity.1 Here let us finish our list of these ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... made it the more pernicious. Furthermore, it affected a clearness as much as the Gnostics did a misty depth of utterance; accordingly, it had so many followers that it could divide them in groups, which organized under a Hierarchy, after the model of Christianity.1 Here let us finish our list of these errors. Each in its own way all the visionary concoctors of new Faiths served, in turn, the Cause of the Christ by coming to dash themselves to pieces against that "Corner-stone" whereon He had built. "For there must be also heresies," 2 the Apostle has said in His name; they had flung themselves upon Eome in such numbers, so subtile, so perverse, but only the better to testify to the steadfastness of the edifice capable of staying their mad assaults. They came hither, I have said, less to shake its foundations than to add to their lustre. In all this confusion of sects which boasted of being Christian, God never failed His work in the hour of need. "He well knew how to preserve in it a character of authority whereof the heresies could not rob it."3 "This Church of Eome, the most ancient," 4 toward which all eyes turned as to a brilliant lighthouse, was of a mould fitted to withstand all shocks, and already in a position to enforce everywhere its belief together with its discipline. Those that withdrew from it, after first having recognized it, never could efface the mark of their novelty, neither of their rebellion. The lofty speculations, not to say the dreams, which always had been the reef on which the Oriental imaginations foundered, had proved of no danger to it. Imbued with that old Eoman spirit, a mixture of strength and suppleness which had conquered the world, well aware that, for the weak, all power consists in remaining united, ...
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