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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... remarkable people , whose memory the lapse of a century was rapidly sink- ing into oblivion , has stimulated him to spare no pains or exertions to satisfy this laudable curiosity . Since Preface to the Second Edition.
... remarkable people , whose memory the lapse of a century was rapidly sink- ing into oblivion , has stimulated him to spare no pains or exertions to satisfy this laudable curiosity . Since Preface to the Second Edition.
Page xxxix
... remarkable excess ; indeed the poet , Hesiod , swells the amount to THIRTY THOUSAND ! According to their mythology , all parts of nature teemed with divine agents , and a system which it must be owned was in some respects elegantly ...
... remarkable excess ; indeed the poet , Hesiod , swells the amount to THIRTY THOUSAND ! According to their mythology , all parts of nature teemed with divine agents , and a system which it must be owned was in some respects elegantly ...
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... remarkable for having selected for the object of their adoration a set of ancient heroes and leaders , whose memory , so far from being rendered illustrious by their virtues , had descended to posterity disgraced and loaded with vice ...
... remarkable for having selected for the object of their adoration a set of ancient heroes and leaders , whose memory , so far from being rendered illustrious by their virtues , had descended to posterity disgraced and loaded with vice ...
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... remarkable words , " Who hath believed our report , and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed ? " — And the event justified the prediction . Some few indeed , and those chiefly from among the inferior ranks in life , believed on him ...
... remarkable words , " Who hath believed our report , and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed ? " — And the event justified the prediction . Some few indeed , and those chiefly from among the inferior ranks in life , believed on him ...
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... should call upon the name of the Lord . The illustration of • Corresponding to our 9 in the morning . + Acts ii . 14-16 . remarkable prophecy , and its application to what was now. SECT . 11. ] 93 The Gift of Tongues .
... should call upon the name of the Lord . The illustration of • Corresponding to our 9 in the morning . + Acts ii . 14-16 . remarkable prophecy , and its application to what was now. SECT . 11. ] 93 The Gift of Tongues .
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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.