The Trials of the Church: Or, The Persecutors of Religion, Volume 1Catholic Protectory, 1880 - Anti-Catholicism |
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... suffer- ings of the martyrs . In a vague , general way , I was aware that they had suffered much , that they had been highly honored by religion , and had borne the most brilliant and convincing testimony to the divinity of the ...
... suffer- ings of the martyrs . In a vague , general way , I was aware that they had suffered much , that they had been highly honored by religion , and had borne the most brilliant and convincing testimony to the divinity of the ...
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... suffered the direst afflictions in Africa . The worst days of the Roman pagan persecutors were again revived . Catholicism was proscribed ; the Churches were closed ; the clergy banished and the people tortured and slain . At the same ...
... suffered the direst afflictions in Africa . The worst days of the Roman pagan persecutors were again revived . Catholicism was proscribed ; the Churches were closed ; the clergy banished and the people tortured and slain . At the same ...
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... suffered for the maintenance of divine truth and the preservation of virtue , cannot but feel profoundly moved and correspond- ingly rejoiced at her labors and her triumphs . The Church's career from the beginning of the sixteenth ...
... suffered for the maintenance of divine truth and the preservation of virtue , cannot but feel profoundly moved and correspond- ingly rejoiced at her labors and her triumphs . The Church's career from the beginning of the sixteenth ...
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... world then plunged . Hence the free application of the words of Lactantius declaring the impossibility of the existence of virtue amongst men who suffered themselves to be guided by such rules ; " 3 The Persecutors of Religion . 33.
... world then plunged . Hence the free application of the words of Lactantius declaring the impossibility of the existence of virtue amongst men who suffered themselves to be guided by such rules ; " 3 The Persecutors of Religion . 33.
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Or, The Persecutors of Religion William Gleeson. suffered themselves to be guided by such rules ; " It is easy to see that the worshippers of the false gods could not be good or upright men . For how could they be expected to keep from ...
Or, The Persecutors of Religion William Gleeson. suffered themselves to be guided by such rules ; " It is easy to see that the worshippers of the false gods could not be good or upright men . For how could they be expected to keep from ...
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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.