An Account of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events: Which Have Transpired from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present TimeL. H. Young, 1834 - 408 pages |
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... enemy to Christianity . During his reign , seas of sacred blood were shed in Asia and Egypt ; but at Alexandria ( which Eusebius calls the noblest stadium of God ) the greater number of victims fell . Some were fastened to crosses ...
... enemy to Christianity . During his reign , seas of sacred blood were shed in Asia and Egypt ; but at Alexandria ( which Eusebius calls the noblest stadium of God ) the greater number of victims fell . Some were fastened to crosses ...
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... enemies were to their pathetic remonstrances , their sufferings were in a great measure alleviated . The emperor marked out new objects for his infernal passion . His friends , his counsellors , and his wife , indiscriminately fell by ...
... enemies were to their pathetic remonstrances , their sufferings were in a great measure alleviated . The emperor marked out new objects for his infernal passion . His friends , his counsellors , and his wife , indiscriminately fell by ...
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... enemies . FOURTH CENTURY . Diocletian , who came to the empire , A. D. 284 , for the first twenty years of his reign , was far from being an enemy of Christians . But in the beginning of this century , he became their most cruel foe ...
... enemies . FOURTH CENTURY . Diocletian , who came to the empire , A. D. 284 , for the first twenty years of his reign , was far from being an enemy of Christians . But in the beginning of this century , he became their most cruel foe ...
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... enemies shall cast a trench about thee , and com- pass thee round , and keep thee in on every side . " Ti- tus now prosecuted the siege with vigour . In addition to this , the Jews were divided into factions among themselves , murdered ...
... enemies shall cast a trench about thee , and com- pass thee round , and keep thee in on every side . " Ti- tus now prosecuted the siege with vigour . In addition to this , the Jews were divided into factions among themselves , murdered ...
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... enemies ; upon which , they proceeded to torture some of his friends , to extort from them a disclosure of the place of his retreat . This was too much for Polycarp to bear , who accordingly surrendered himself , a prey to his enemies ...
... enemies ; upon which , they proceeded to torture some of his friends , to extort from them a disclosure of the place of his retreat . This was too much for Polycarp to bear , who accordingly surrendered himself , a prey to his enemies ...
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Page 324 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous, hosanna round.
Page 149 - 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 45 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains...
Page 320 - And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled : and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Page 190 - ... incurred ; and, then, from all thy, sins, transgressions, and excesses, how enormous soever they may be ; even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the holy see ; and as far as the...
Page 12 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 320 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Page 319 - The knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea," and, " all shall know the Lord from the least unto the greatest.
Page 85 - Whilst Alypius, assisted by the governor of the province, urged, with vigour and diligence, the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned.
Page 48 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations : and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.