They can trace their descent to Apostolic times, and undoubtedly were an important element in the National Church, in the days of William and the Hanoverian succession.
Modern Christianity, it is often said, has little in common with that of apostolic times: I fear it is equally true that the Quakerism of to-day has little in common with the heroic Quakerism of an earlier day.
Still, as much as in Apostolic times, does the Divine afflatus dwell in man, and the man so endowed becomes a prophet, and declares the will of God.
The High Churchmen in question insisted that their position, and theirs only, was precisely that of the Church in early post-Apostolic times, when doctrine had become fully defined, but was as yet uncorrupted by later superstitions.
Even in Apostolic times, when it might be said to have existed, error and schism were not thereby prevented.
But we can go farther still, and closer to apostolic times.
Some writers of the second century who touched upon apostolic times call it by the name our Bibles retain, The Acts of the Apostles; others call it The Acts of the Holy Apostles, or at times simply The Acts.
Heresies began very early in the Church, even in Apostolic times.
Oblations in money or kind have always been made from apostolic times (1 Cor.
We now have a circulation of nearly 4,000 for the Apostolic Times.
The Apostolic Times is growing in favor, but not so rapidly as we would like.
There is a long account of him left us by Hegesippus, a very ancient Church historian, who bordered on apostolic times, and now preserved for us in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, ii.
The interior rest amid the greatest trials which an assured confidence like that enjoyed by St. Peter can confer is something marvellous, and has not been confined to apostolic times.
The Cypriote bishops claimed that they had been free from the dominion of Antioch back to apostolic times, and the Council confirmed their freedom: see Mansi's Councils, iv.
That the Roman Empire would in its final form be divided into ten kingdoms was held by Christian writers of the earliest post-apostolic times.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apostolic times" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
