The History of the Christian Church: From the Birth of Christ to the Eighteenth Century, Including the Very Interesting Account of the Waldenses and Albigenses, Volume 1author, 1819 - Albigenses A history of the Christian church from a Protestant perspective with a detailed account of the Albigensian and Waldensian crusades and persecutions. |
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... lives , had consigned them all to damnation after death . They also acknow- ledge two Christs ; one wicked , who was born at Bethlehem and crucified at Jerusalem , and who kept as his concubine Mary Magdalene , the woman so well known ...
... lives , had consigned them all to damnation after death . They also acknow- ledge two Christs ; one wicked , who was born at Bethlehem and crucified at Jerusalem , and who kept as his concubine Mary Magdalene , the woman so well known ...
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... lives of men of every class , from the highest to the lowest , were spent in the practice of the most abominable and flagitious vices . Even crimes , the horrible turpitude of which was such , that decency forbids the mention of them ...
... lives of men of every class , from the highest to the lowest , were spent in the practice of the most abominable and flagitious vices . Even crimes , the horrible turpitude of which was such , that decency forbids the mention of them ...
Page xlviii
... indeed included nearly all the children of prosperity , the rich , the noble , and the powerful , naturally studied to pass their lives in one continued round of luxurious enjoyment xlviii State of the world in general.
... indeed included nearly all the children of prosperity , the rich , the noble , and the powerful , naturally studied to pass their lives in one continued round of luxurious enjoyment xlviii State of the world in general.
Page xlix
... lives in one continued round of luxurious enjoyment . The only restraint they imposed on them- selves arose out of a desire to avoid , at all times , such an excessive or immoderate addictedness to pleasure as might generate disease ...
... lives in one continued round of luxurious enjoyment . The only restraint they imposed on them- selves arose out of a desire to avoid , at all times , such an excessive or immoderate addictedness to pleasure as might generate disease ...
Page lvii
... live in consummate glory , and reign surrounded by kindred spirits , as he did before the foundation of the world . The moral discipline deduced from this system of phi- losophy , by those who embraced it , was by no means of an uniform ...
... live in consummate glory , and reign surrounded by kindred spirits , as he did before the foundation of the world . The moral discipline deduced from this system of phi- losophy , by those who embraced it , was by no means of an uniform ...
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Page 165 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 110 - Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
Page 84 - And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Page 201 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 198 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 158 - For the king knoweth of these things before whom also I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
Page 86 - Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Page 88 - And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
Page 94 - And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
Page 258 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.