The Trials of the Church: Or, The Persecutors of Religion, Volume 1Catholic Protectory, 1880 - Anti-Catholicism |
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... thing before it , but as many times the faithful , sustained from on high , withstood its fury . For the first time in the history of the Roman Empire an opponent was found whose arms were more than a match for the imperial battalions ...
... thing before it , but as many times the faithful , sustained from on high , withstood its fury . For the first time in the history of the Roman Empire an opponent was found whose arms were more than a match for the imperial battalions ...
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... thing of the past . Hence , in his eager- ness to proclaim to the world his victory , without waiting for a formal assurance of the fact , Cæsar imprudently ordered engraved on tablets of brass and set up through the extent of his ...
... thing of the past . Hence , in his eager- ness to proclaim to the world his victory , without waiting for a formal assurance of the fact , Cæsar imprudently ordered engraved on tablets of brass and set up through the extent of his ...
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... thing that preceded them whether under the Goths , the Vandals or pagan Roman emperors . The chief theatre of the Church's con- flict with the powers of darkness in this modern warfare has been Great Britain and Ireland , but especially ...
... thing that preceded them whether under the Goths , the Vandals or pagan Roman emperors . The chief theatre of the Church's con- flict with the powers of darkness in this modern warfare has been Great Britain and Ireland , but especially ...
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... things and places consecrated to the worship of God which were first sacriligiously pillaged , then all the paintings and images were torn , the * See Lecky's Hist . of England . statues were cloven in pieces with the axe and either The ...
... things and places consecrated to the worship of God which were first sacriligiously pillaged , then all the paintings and images were torn , the * See Lecky's Hist . of England . statues were cloven in pieces with the axe and either The ...
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... thing and not a man . No principle was more generally taught , accepted and acted upon by the great and noble than that the slave was an inferior being - a creature destined like the beast of burden to minister solely to his master's ...
... thing and not a man . No principle was more generally taught , accepted and acted upon by the great and noble than that the slave was an inferior being - a creature destined like the beast of burden to minister solely to his master's ...
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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.