 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - Reformation - 1838 - 526 pages
...Rome," he says again ; " they must be seen and heard to be believed. So that it is usual to say : ' If there be a hell, Rome is built above it ; it is an abyss from whence all sins proceed.' "* This sight made at the time a great impression on Luther's mind ; an impression... | |
 | 1880 - 506 pages
...inhabitants ? Is there a need for Christian missions to such a city as this ? Martin Luther once wrote, " if there be a hell, Rome is built above it : it is an abyss whence all sins proceed." And that Saxon monk's description of Roman religion and Roman society three... | |
 | Enoch Pond - Christian literature, American - 1842 - 368 pages
...atrocities are committed in Rome. They must be seen and heard to be believed ; so that it is usual to say, If there be a hell, Rome is built above it. It is an abyss from which all wickedness proceeds." As he mingled with prelates and the higher ecclesiastics, he found the same profane... | |
 | Protestant association - 1843 - 480 pages
...Rome," he says again ; " they must be seen and heard to be believed. So that it is usual to say : ' If there be a hell, Rome is built above it ; it is an abyss from whence all sins proceed.' " This sight made at the time a great impression on Luther's mind ; an impression... | |
 | William Garrett Lewis - 1851 - 184 pages
...in Rome. He says, " again they must be seen and heard to be believed." So that it is usual to say, " If there be a hell Rome is built above it." It is an abyss from whence all sins proceed. The nearer we approach to Rome, the greater number of bad Christians do we... | |
 | Nicholas Murray - History - 1852 - 288 pages
...got to Rome, the more wicked were the priests and people. And writing from there a few days Rafter he entered it, and while saying mass at its altars,...will remember, that on the death of the late Pope Grregory, masses were ordered for the repose of his soul all over the Papal world. In many places,... | |
 | sir George Sinclair (2nd bart.) - Protestants - 1852 - 818 pages
...Papacy, especially from the era of the Reformation until now : — " It is incredible," says Luther, " what sins and atrocities are committed here ; they...— it is an abyss, from which all sins proceed." " Rome, in its priests and people," said a gentleman to me in Rome, who has resided there for years,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1852 - 530 pages
...atrocities are committed in Rome; they must be seen and heard to be believed. So that it is usual to say, ' If there be a hell, Rome is built above it; it is an abyss from which all sins proceed.' " So again he says : " It is commonly observed that he who goes to Rome for the first time, goes to... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1856 - 520 pages
...committed in Rome ; they must be seen and heard to be believed. So that it is usual to say, ' If there ho a hell, Rome is built above it; it is an abyss from which all sins proceed.' " So again he says : " It is commonly observed that he who goes to Rome for the first time, goes to... | |
 | Charles Adams - Reformation - 1858 - 352 pages
...nothing but profanation. " It is incredible," he says, " what sins and atrocities are committed in Rome. If there be a hell, Rome is built above it ; it is an abyss from whence all ,sins proceed." The Reformer looked, he saw the sickening reality, and as he beheld he drifted... | |
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what sins and atrocities are committed in Rome; they must be seen and heard to be believed. So that it is usual to say, ' If there be a hell, Rome is built above it; it is an abyss from which all sins proceed. 
