Lives of eminent Russian prelates: i. Nikon, sixth patriarch of Moscow (by R. Thornton), ii. Saint Demetrius, metropolitan of Rostoff, iii. Michael, metropolitan of Novgorod and S. Petersburg

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Masters, 1854

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Page 32 - And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble. They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.
Page 120 - Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born : thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb : my praise shall be always of thee.
Page 38 - Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes. Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.
Page xv - ... one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God ?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page 29 - Oh Most Holy Father, why hast thou put upon me such a reproach, preparing thyself for the Council as if thou wert going to be put to death? thinkest thou I have forgotten all thy services both to myself personally and to my family during the plague, and our former mutual friendship?
Page 117 - Lord's plain assurance, that the very hairs of our head are all numbered...
Page 77 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men : to see if there were any that would understand, and seek after God. 4 But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable : there is none that doeth good, no not one.
Page 36 - ... his duty without any special request to pray for the repose of her soul. He rejoiced at the new marriage of the Tsar and the birth of Peter, and wept bitterly at the intelligence of his sovereign's death. Nikon learned this melancholy news in the depths of his solitude, and exclaimed with a groan, " The will of God be done. What though he never saw me to take leave...
Page 118 - Unction with Oil is a Sacrament, in which, while the body is anointed with oil, God's grace is invoked on the sick, to heal him of spiritual and bodily infirmities.
Page 144 - Adam in the estate of innocency, and to all mankind in him, beside a special command, not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, was the moral law.h Q.

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