History of the Waldenses: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeAmerican Sunday School Union, 1829 - 158 pages |
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... Divine Providence , who firmly and nobly withstood the Papal usurpations . Among these , none were more eminent than Paulinas , Bishop of Aquileia , in Italy , and Claudius , Bishop of Turin . In regard to Claudius of Turin , it will be ...
... Divine Providence , who firmly and nobly withstood the Papal usurpations . Among these , none were more eminent than Paulinas , Bishop of Aquileia , in Italy , and Claudius , Bishop of Turin . In regard to Claudius of Turin , it will be ...
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... divine in the image ; we only reverence it in honour of the person whom it represents . I answer , if they who have quitted the worship of devils , ho- nour the images of the saints , they have not forsaken idols ; they have only ...
... divine in the image ; we only reverence it in honour of the person whom it represents . I answer , if they who have quitted the worship of devils , ho- nour the images of the saints , they have not forsaken idols ; they have only ...
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... Divine Providence . " Near the lofty and projecting crag which soars above Mount Vaudelin , there was a natural cavern , which the inhabitants of the commune of La Torre con- trived to make a secret hiding place . This cavern , in which ...
... Divine Providence . " Near the lofty and projecting crag which soars above Mount Vaudelin , there was a natural cavern , which the inhabitants of the commune of La Torre con- trived to make a secret hiding place . This cavern , in which ...
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... cruel sentence was executed in its utmost rigour ; and it being the depth of winter , they all perished with cold and hunger ! Such was the provision of divine grace , " says Milner , speaking of the true piety of the 22 HISTORY OF.
... cruel sentence was executed in its utmost rigour ; and it being the depth of winter , they all perished with cold and hunger ! Such was the provision of divine grace , " says Milner , speaking of the true piety of the 22 HISTORY OF.
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... divine word , that , in the worst of times , the church shall exist , and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it . " CHAPTER III . ABOUT the year 1160 , Peter Waldo , a rich merchant of Lyons , attached himself to the Waldenses ...
... divine word , that , in the worst of times , the church shall exist , and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it . " CHAPTER III . ABOUT the year 1160 , Peter Waldo , a rich merchant of Lyons , attached himself to the Waldenses ...
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Page 95 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers...
Page 90 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 95 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 95 - AVENGE, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them, who kept Thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not. In Thy book record their groans, Who were Thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 106 - The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Page 31 - ... of salvation : we cannot penetrate it. Pestilential man ! what pride has seized your heart, and what is your folly, to refuse peace with your neighbours, and to brave the divine laws, by protecting the enemies of the faith ? If you do not fear eternal flames, ought you not to dread the temporal chastisements which you have merited by so many crimes?
Page 100 - ... mind of your royal highness, which hath been provoked against them. " In behalf of these poor people whose cause truly even commiseration itself may seem to make the more excusable, the most serene Protector of England is also become an intercessor; and he most earnestly entreateth and beseecheth your royal highness, that you would be pleased to extend your mercy to these your very poor subjects, and most disconsolate outcasts ; I mean those, who inhabiting beneath the Alps, and certain valleys...
Page 4 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Page 144 - They get their livelihood by manual industry, as day labourers or mechanics, and their teachers are weavers or tailors. They are not anxious about amassing riches, but content themselves with the necessaries of life. They are chaste, temperate, and sober. They abstain from anger. Even when they work, they either learn or teach. In like manner also, their women are very modest; avoiding backbiting, foolish jesting, and levity of speech, especially abstaining from lies or swearing, not so much as making...
Page 5 - I now believe that the eye which saw seven thousand in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal...