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... Sweden . . . . .Denmark .... Germany . . . .Switzerland . . . .Geneva . . . .Condition of the Ca- tholic states . Pp . 10-109 .Italy . . . .France . . . .Spain . • CHAPTER SECOND . ON THE EFFECT OF THE REFORMATION ON.
... Sweden . . . . .Denmark .... Germany . . . .Switzerland . . . .Geneva . . . .Condition of the Ca- tholic states . Pp . 10-109 .Italy . . . .France . . . .Spain . • CHAPTER SECOND . ON THE EFFECT OF THE REFORMATION ON.
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... Italian priest as the superintendent of its administration , arrogated to itself the prerogatives of Deity , -claiming unlimit- ed authority over the world in secular as well as in ecclesiastical affairs , assuming to itself the right ...
... Italian priest as the superintendent of its administration , arrogated to itself the prerogatives of Deity , -claiming unlimit- ed authority over the world in secular as well as in ecclesiastical affairs , assuming to itself the right ...
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... Italy , in the Netherlands , where all the means of inquisition and censure were employed to restrain the operations of mind , and to turn improvement backwards . Let any one compare the political , religious , and literary condition of ...
... Italy , in the Netherlands , where all the means of inquisition and censure were employed to restrain the operations of mind , and to turn improvement backwards . Let any one compare the political , religious , and literary condition of ...
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... Italy , Geneva was , with respect to this last country , the only state which thought of carrying there the lights of the Reformation . In the valleys of Piedmont , under the King of Sardinia , there have al- ways been a small people ...
... Italy , Geneva was , with respect to this last country , the only state which thought of carrying there the lights of the Reformation . In the valleys of Piedmont , under the King of Sardinia , there have al- ways been a small people ...
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... Italy . The descendants of the first preachers , and the first victims of the Reformation , hav- ing come to the knowledge of the truth even before the time of Wickliffe or John Huss , have not degenerated from their fore- fathers ; yet ...
... Italy . The descendants of the first preachers , and the first victims of the Reformation , hav- ing come to the knowledge of the truth even before the time of Wickliffe or John Huss , have not degenerated from their fore- fathers ; yet ...
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Page 273 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying ; Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Page 113 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Bab-y-lon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 159 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 273 - 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...
Page 234 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 234 - ... evangelists, and of the holy innocents, who in the sight of the Holy Lamb, are found worthy to sing the new song of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, together with the holy and elect of God, May he...
Page 87 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 235 - in his thighs, in his genitals," [My father shook his head] " and in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and feet, and toe-nails ! " May he be cursed in all the joints and articulations of his members, from the top of his head to the sole of his foot! May there be no soundness in him ! " May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his majesty...
Page 274 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Page 184 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.