The Conquering Cross: (The Church)Charles Burnet, 1887 - 268 pages |
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Page 80 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours: and their works do follow them.
Page 38 - For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Page 94 - To blank astonishment succeeded imperial contempt and popular fury. Telemachus fell slain by the swords of the gladiators. Legend may adorn the tale and fancy fill out the picture, but the solid fact remains — there never was another gladiatorial fight in the Coliseum. One heroic soul had caught the flow of popular feeling that had already begun to set in the direction of humanity, and turned it. He had embodied by his act and consecrated by his death the sentiment that already lay timidly in the...
Page 103 - In Christ. Alexander is not dead, but lives beyond the stars, and his body rests in this tomb. He lived under the Emperor Antonine, who, foreseeing that great benefit would result from his services, returned evil for good. For, while on his knees, and about to sacrifice to the true God, he was led away to execution. O, sad times ! in which sacred rites and prayers, even in caverns, afford no protection to us.
Page 39 - The Lord shall consume (him) with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy (him) with the brightness of his coming.
Page 36 - But not all the relief that could come from man, not all the bounties that the prince could bestow, nor all the atonements which could be presented to the gods, availed to relieve Nero from the infamy of being believed to have ordered the conflagration. Hence...
Page 66 - Paul's rhetorical bursts, as in, "0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out...
Page 268 - It does not strike us that we are called upon to " rejoice with them that do rejoice," as well as to
Page 103 - O, sad times ! in which sacred rites and prayers, even in caverns, afford no protection to us. "What can be more wretched than such a life ? and what than such a death ? when they could not be buried by their friends and relations — at length they sparkle in heaven. He has scarcely lived, who has lived in Christian times.
Page 65 - Referring to the Neronian persecution of 64, he says, " We are in the same lists, and the same struggle awaits us." He alludes, for purposes of edification, merely to the recent deaths of Peter and Paul, to the martyrdom of so many friends, and even to the sacrifice of young girls in the arena. There are quaint hints, reminding one of the constitutional horror the Romans had of the sea : there was " the ocean impassable for men ; " there are landmarks of natural history, such as "the Phoenix...