 | Jeremy Collier - 1840 - 552 pagina’s
...gone upon this principle, that supreme happiness is not to be expected till the resurrection : and that the interval between death and the end of the world, is a state of imperfect bliss. The Church might therefore believe her prayers for good people departed,... | |
 | Gerald Wensley Tyrrell - 1840 - 430 pagina’s
...ii. 5. * The primitive Church had, it must be admitted, such prayers, arising from the persuasion, that the interval between death and the end of the world is a state of expectation and imperfect bliss, in which the souls of the righteous wait for the completion... | |
 | Charles Wheatly - 1848 - 588 pagina’s
...they might not only rest in peace for the present, but also obtain part in the first resurrection.91 However they all agreed in this, that the interval between death and the end of the world is a state of expectation and imperfect bliss, in which the souls of the righteous wait for the completion... | |
 | William James Early Bennett - 1851 - 260 pagina’s
...have gone upon this principle. That supreme happiness is not to be expected till the Resurrection, and that the interval between death and the end of the world is a state of imperfect bliss." — Eccles. Hist. Part II. Book iv. Barrow, Bishop of S. Asaph, wrote the... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1867 - 246 pagina’s
...have gone on the principle that supreme happiness is not to be expected till the resurrection ; and that the interval between death and the end of the world, is a state of imperfect bliss.'"81 Thus it is then that the Church has inherited this truth, and so she... | |
 | 1839 - 618 pagina’s
...from the body, and such a STATE as is susceptible of happiness or misery." Dr. Wheat ly says, — " The interval between death, and the end of the world, is a STATE" — not place — " A STATE of expectation and imperfect bliss." Then he adds that the completion... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - 1872 - 400 pagina’s
...theological students, thus writes with regard to the opinion of the Fathers on the subject : — " They all agreed in this, that the interval between death and the end of the world is a state of expectation and imperfect bliss, in which the souls of the * " Origines Ecclesiasticse," by... | |
 | 1884 - 540 pagina’s
...their teachings on this subject, in his " Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer : " " They all agreed, in this that the interval between death and the end of the world is a state of expectation and imperfect bliss, in which the souls of the righteous wait for the completion... | |
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The custom seems to have gone on this principle, that supreme happiness is not to be expected till the resurrection ; and that the interval between death and the end of the world is a state of imperfect bliss. The Church might, therefore, believe her... 
