Ancient Christianity Exemplified in the Private, Domestic, Social, and Civil Life of the Primitive Christians: And in the Original Institutions, Offices, Ordinances, and Rites of the Church

Lyman Coleman

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CHAPTER I	33

Christian authors	41

CHAPTER II	51

Of the benevolence of the primitive Christians	72

Of their efforts for the propagation of Christianity	77

Of the amusements of the primitive Christians	78

CHAPTER V	81

Of the power of sacred music	331

Of ancient hymns	333

CHAPTER XVII	338

Of the order in which the Scriptures were read	340

Of the mode of designating the divisions and lessons	342

Of the Psalter	346

CHAPTER XVIII	348

Of those by whom the homilies were delivered	350

Of their loyalty to government	82

Of their military service	83

Of their honesty and integrity as good citizens	84

Of unlawful occupations	85

Of the refusal of military duties	87

Of undesigned encomiums from enemies	89

CHAPTER VI	91

Of the origin of the Christian church	94

Of one church only in each city	95

Of Deacons	96

Changes in the constitution of the Christian church after the age of the Apostles	97

Doctrinal peculiarities of the Christian church	99

CHAPTER VII	101

Of the names of reproach and derision conferred on Christians by their enemies	105

Of the distinction between the clergy and the laity	107

Of the baptized	109

Of Ascetics Coenobites Monks Fraternities	113

Of Penitents	117

Of Energumens or Demoniacs	124

CHAPTER VIII	126

Of Bishops ཋ ཤན	130

Of the inferior Bishops	139

Of Archdeacons	174

CHAPTER X	195

Of certain unusual forms of election	201

Of the administration of the rite	211

Of the immunities prerogatives and privileges of the priesthood	217

Of the revenue of the clergy	225

Of the independence and the degeneracy of the Bishop	229

CHAPTER XIII	232

Of the form site and position	236

Of the arrangement and constituent parts	241

Of the bema or sanctuary	242

Of the altar	243

Of the nave	246

Of the narthex or antetemple	250

Of the outer buildings or exedræ	251

Of church towers bells and organs	254

Of the doors of the church	258

Of the pavement and walls of the church	259

Of the windows of the church	260

Of images	262

Of the veneration for sacred places and the privileges attached to them	265

Of the church as the place of refuge	267

CHAPTER XIV	270

Of the secret discipline of the ancient church	276

Of liturgies	284

Of ancient creeds	291

Of catechetical instructions	304

CHAPTER XV	305

Of the unity and trinity of the Godhead implied in the devotions of the primitive church	311

Of divine worship paid to Christ	314

Of the filial and confiding spirit of the prayers of the church	315

Of the simplicity and brevity of the devotions of the primitive church	316

Of audible and silent prayer	317

Of the Lords prayer	318

Of the responsesamen hallelujah hosanna etc	320

Of the attitude and gesture in singing and in prayer	324

CHAPTER XVI	327

Of the material and subject of Christian psalmody	329

Of the frequency of sermons	352

Of the length of time allotted for the delivery of the sermon	353

Of the attitude of the speaker mode of delivery deportment of the audience	354

Of the construction of the sermon	356

Of the subjects of discourse by the fathers	358

CHAPTER XIX	362

Of the proselyte baptism of the Jews	365

Of unscriptural formalities and doctrines relating to baptism	367

Of the names by which the ordinance is designated	373

Of infant baptism	374

Of limitations and exceptions	387

Of ministers of baptism	390

Of the times of baptism	392

Of the place of baptism	393

Of the mode and form of baptism	395

Of the rites connected with baptism	399

Of sponsors	403

CHAPTER XX	408

Of ministers of confirmation and the attending rites	410

CHAPTER XXI	412

Of the scriptural account of the Lords supper	418

Of the testimony of pagan writers	420

Of the times of celebration	424

Of the place of celebration	426

Of the ministers of the Lords supper	427

Of the communicants	430

Of the elements	435

Of the consecration of the elements	438

Of the distribution of the elements	439

Of the accompanying rites	441

Of the agape or feasts of charity	443

Of sacramental utensils	448

CHAPTER XXII	451

Of penance	460

Of the subjects of penance or the offences for which it was imposed	461

Of the different classes of penitents	462

Of the duties of penitents and the discipline imposed upon them or the different kinds or degrees of penance	464

Of the readmission of penitents into the church	465

Of private penance	468

Of absolution	471

Of the discipline of the clergy and the punishment of delinquents	472

CHAPTER XXIII	475

Of the extent of their jurisdiction	479

CHAPTER XXIV	493

CHAPTER XXV	504

Of mourners ſ	510

Of the origin of the doctrine of purgatory	520

CHAPTER XXVI	526

Of the sacred seasons of the ancient church	536

Of the corrupt origin and influence of the festivals	542

CHAPTER XXVII	555

Forms of worship festivals etc	561

Number of the Nestorians	567

Baptism and confirmation	574

CHAPTER XXIX	580

The inward piety of the primitive Christians the principal means of pro	599

Of the element of baptism 395	609

INDEX OF COUNCILS	616

PAGE	633

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Tytuł	Ancient Christianity Exemplified in the Private, Domestic, Social, and Civil Life of the Primitive Christians: And in the Original Institutions, Offices, Ordinances, and Rites of the Church
Autor	Lyman Coleman
Wydawca	Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1853
W formie oryginalnej	Biblioteka Publiczna w Nowym Jorku
W formie cyfrowej	14 Lip 2006
Liczba stron	645

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