History of the Waldenses: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeAmerican Sunday School Union, 1829 - 158 pages |
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Page 116
... Victor Amadeus , in the middle of winter , issued a proclamation for releasing them , on condition of their banishing them- selves for ever from Piedmont . The pro clamation , " says Jones , " was made at the castle of Mondovi , for ...
... Victor Amadeus , in the middle of winter , issued a proclamation for releasing them , on condition of their banishing them- selves for ever from Piedmont . The pro clamation , " says Jones , " was made at the castle of Mondovi , for ...
Page 117
... Victor Amadeus II . re- peopled Piedmont with Roman Catholics , and placed garrisons of French and Pied- montese soldiers in the forts which guarded the passes of the mountains . The ancient inhabitants were now scattered among differ ...
... Victor Amadeus II . re- peopled Piedmont with Roman Catholics , and placed garrisons of French and Pied- montese soldiers in the forts which guarded the passes of the mountains . The ancient inhabitants were now scattered among differ ...
Page 135
... Victor Amadeus soon forgot both his promises and the obligations under which he lay to his Vaudois subjects . Immediately on the termination of the war with France , he issued an edict , " ordering all the Vaudois who were not natives ...
... Victor Amadeus soon forgot both his promises and the obligations under which he lay to his Vaudois subjects . Immediately on the termination of the war with France , he issued an edict , " ordering all the Vaudois who were not natives ...
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... poor Waldenses after 1797 . The difficulties with which the Waldenses have had to contend since their restoration by Victor Amadeus , have been by no means of a M 2 THE WALDENSES . 137 of them in the possessions of the duke of ...
... poor Waldenses after 1797 . The difficulties with which the Waldenses have had to contend since their restoration by Victor Amadeus , have been by no means of a M 2 THE WALDENSES . 137 of them in the possessions of the duke of ...
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From the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Sime. Victor Amadeus , have been by no means of a trivial nature . Notwithstanding the numerous obligations under which that prince lay to these faithful people , he issued an edict ...
From the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Sime. Victor Amadeus , have been by no means of a trivial nature . Notwithstanding the numerous obligations under which that prince lay to these faithful people , he issued an edict ...
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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...