Latter Day Saints
1. Birth of Messiah.--Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Savior of the world, was born, most probably, in the year of Rome 753; at a period of the year corresponding to our month of April (see notes 1, 2, end of section). The place of his birth was Bethlehem [Beth-le-hem],[1] a...
1. Birth of Messiah.--Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Savior of the world, was born, most probably, in the year of Rome 753; at a period of the year corresponding to our month...
2. PART II.In Part I, our narrative was confined mainly to those propitious circumstances which made for the successful introduction of the gospel and the founding of the church of Christ....
3. did. These Mosheim may have considered as corresponding to the civilexarchs; while his translator insists that they were merely the "first metropolitans of the civil dioceses." The difference seems to be one of terms rather than of facts; but th...
4. part ii, ch. iii.85. The statement is condensed from Mosheim; Dr. Benton, for years professor of divinity at Oxford, in his Brampton lectures states that the matter was "inert and powerless thou...
5. PART III.The Age of Darkness.--We have not found it necessary to our purpose to dwell upon the particular events of ecclesiastical history from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. Thos...
6. Part II of this work. It had no prophets or apostles, no men who had aright to the revelations of God. The popes and bishops of the church taught that revelation had ceased, and they depended on scripture and tradition alone, interpreted by themse...
7. PART IV.1. The Dispensation of the Fullness of Times.--By a dispensation, in connection with the work of God, we mean "the opening of the heavens to men, the bestowing of the Holy Pries...