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Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the…

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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called…
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did…
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed…
He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise…
And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics]…
[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and…
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,…
He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and…
It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles,…
He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled…
The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.
The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

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