The Trials of the Church: Or, The Persecutors of Religion, Volume 1Catholic Protectory, 1880 - Anti-Catholicism |
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... heaven - Julian goes to Persia and is killed - His last mo- ments - How he died . - CHAPTER XXIII . Jovian succeeds to the throne - He dies - He is succeeded by Val- entinian - Valens associated in the government of the empire -He works ...
... heaven - Julian goes to Persia and is killed - His last mo- ments - How he died . - CHAPTER XXIII . Jovian succeeds to the throne - He dies - He is succeeded by Val- entinian - Valens associated in the government of the empire -He works ...
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... heaven -Genseric the instrument used by God for this purpose- Persecution in Armenia - Edict requiring all the Christians to worship the sun . · PAGE 411 CHAPTER XXV . Yezdejerd persecutes the Christians at the suggestion of the Magi ...
... heaven -Genseric the instrument used by God for this purpose- Persecution in Armenia - Edict requiring all the Christians to worship the sun . · PAGE 411 CHAPTER XXV . Yezdejerd persecutes the Christians at the suggestion of the Magi ...
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... Heaven . How many Christian churches were given to the flames and how many of the faithful died by the sword during the progress of this conquering barbarian , it would be impossi- ble to say . To the Huns succeeded the Goths , the ...
... Heaven . How many Christian churches were given to the flames and how many of the faithful died by the sword during the progress of this conquering barbarian , it would be impossi- ble to say . To the Huns succeeded the Goths , the ...
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... heaven it is because man's , and not woman's , requirements demand it . * In a word , till the advent of Christianity , woman everywhere occupied a dishonored condition and endured a deplorable servitude . Even where civilization had ...
... heaven it is because man's , and not woman's , requirements demand it . * In a word , till the advent of Christianity , woman everywhere occupied a dishonored condition and endured a deplorable servitude . Even where civilization had ...
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... heaven . The old system of the world's teaching on this point thus re- ceived a shock from which it never recovered . Man saw at once by the light of this new doctrine that he was not the sole master of all . It was not , however ...
... heaven . The old system of the world's teaching on this point thus re- ceived a shock from which it never recovered . Man saw at once by the light of this new doctrine that he was not the sole master of all . It was not , however ...
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Page 15 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 139 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 100 - If you had been of the world, the world would love its own : but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master.
Page 102 - And now I say unto you ; Refrain from these men, and let them alone ; for if this counsel or this work, be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 137 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory : and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 135 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth. and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Page 99 - These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
Page 130 - With this view (continues Tacitus) he inflicted the most exquisite tortures on those men, who, under the vulgar appellation of Christians, were already branded with deserved infamy. They derived their name and origin from Christ, who, in the reign of Tiberius, had suffered death, by the sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate.
Page 25 - Art thou called being a servant ? care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Page 157 - For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side ; and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.