 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...which " had grown up in silence and obscurity, and derived new vigour from opposition, finally erecting the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins of the Capitol." Converted, then, into a political engine, it was employed to make concessions where conquests were... | |
 | Christianity - 1803 - 430 pages
...undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itaelf into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour...from opposition, and finally erected . the triumphant .banners of the cross on the ruins of the ca'pitoL Nor was the influence of Christianity confined to... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1812 - 586 pages
...vol. ii. p. 265, he says, " a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour...erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins ofthe capitol." Thus was confirmed what'Jesus told his disciples, Matt. xxiv. 14. and " this gospel... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - Apologetics - 1824 - 464 pages
...increasing multitude. " A pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour...triumphant banner of the Cross on the ruins of the Capitol. Still farther, after a revolution of thirteen or fourteen centuries, that religion is still professed... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion, gently insinuated itself into the minds of men ; grew up in silence and obscurity ; derived new vigour...the ruins of the capitol. Nor was the influence of Cliristianity confined to the period or to the limits of the Roman empire. After a revolution of thirteen... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion, gently insinuated itself into the minds of men ; grew up in silence and obscurity ; derived new vigour...of the cross on the ruins of the capitol. Nor was die influence of Christianity confined to the period or to the limits of die Roman empire. After a... | |
 | Robert Owen - Apologetics - 1829 - 568 pages
...gently insinuated itself into the minds of men; grew up in silence jud obscurity; derived new vigor from opposition ; and finally erected the triumphant...banner of the cross on the ruins of the Capitol. Nor \v;is the influence of Christianity confined to the period or limits of ¡he Roman Empire. After a... | |
 | Francis Augustus Cox - Bible - 1836 - 246 pages
...accumulating multitudes are still flocking to 68 the standard of salvation. " Christianity," says Gibbon, " erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the...influence of Christianity confined to the period or the limits of the Roman empire. After a revolution of thirteen or fourteen centuries, that religion... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1836 - 480 pages
...undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men ; grew up in silence and obscurity ; derived new vigour...erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruing of the capitol. Nor was the influence of Christianity confined to the period or to the limits... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - Apologetics - 1836 - 324 pages
...every land, until at last, through their labors, their followers, to use the language of Gibbon, " erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins of the Capitol " of Rome. 14. We appeal to the good sense and candor of the Infidel to say whether such a religion,... | |
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While that great body," he observes, " was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition, and finally... 
