An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: In Six Volumes, in which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power are Considered in Their Connexion with the State of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe During that Period, المجلد 2W. Gracie, 1819 |
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... greatest number of victories . When there- fore they saw the Romans possessed of an empire much more extensive than that of any other people , they concluded that Christ , their God , was of all others the most worthy of religious ...
... greatest number of victories . When there- fore they saw the Romans possessed of an empire much more extensive than that of any other people , they concluded that Christ , their God , was of all others the most worthy of religious ...
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... greatest part to renounce the service of their impotent gods . How far these conversions were due to real miracles attending the ministry of these early preachers , is a matter extremely difficult to be determined . For though I am ...
... greatest part to renounce the service of their impotent gods . How far these conversions were due to real miracles attending the ministry of these early preachers , is a matter extremely difficult to be determined . For though I am ...
الصفحة 12
... greatest part of these barbarians embraced Christianity ; though it be also true , that , in the beginning of their usurpations , the professors of that religion suffered heavily under the rigour of their government . II . To destroy ...
... greatest part of these barbarians embraced Christianity ; though it be also true , that , in the beginning of their usurpations , the professors of that religion suffered heavily under the rigour of their government . II . To destroy ...
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... greatest power and influence , whose authority and violence were , on that ac- count , restrained , in the year 415 , by an express and particular edict of Theodosius the young- er [ b ] . ty opposed It does not appear , from any ...
... greatest power and influence , whose authority and violence were , on that ac- count , restrained , in the year 415 , by an express and particular edict of Theodosius the young- er [ b ] . ty opposed It does not appear , from any ...
الصفحة 30
... greatest part of mankind been sunk in surperstition and ignorance , and all in general formed their ideas of the rights and liberties of Christian ministers from the model exhibited by the sacerdotal orders among the Hebrews , the ...
... greatest part of mankind been sunk in surperstition and ignorance , and all in general formed their ideas of the rights and liberties of Christian ministers from the model exhibited by the sacerdotal orders among the Hebrews , the ...
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الصفحة 420 - 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.
الصفحة 419 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 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.
الصفحة 343 - But this consequence was quickly retorted upon those that imagined it; for they who denied the metamorphosis of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ...
الصفحة 319 - This idolatrous devotion was now considered as the most sacred and momentous branch of religion, nor did any dare to entertain the smallest hopes of finding the Deity propitious, before they had assured themselves of the protection and intercession of some one or other of the saintly order. Hence it was that every church, and indeed every private Christian, had their particular patron among the saints, from an apprehension that their spiritual interests would be but indifferently managed by those,...
الصفحة 39 - The images of those, who, during their lives, had acquired the reputation of uncommon sanctity, were now honoured with a particular worship in several places; and many imagined, that this worship drew down into the images the propitious presence of the saints or celestial beings they represented...
الصفحة 373 - Prince of that region, whom the Nestorians converted to the Christian faith, assumed, according to the vulgar tradition, the name of John after his baptism, to which he added the surname of "Presbyter," from a principle of modesty; whence, it is said, his successors were each of them called " Prester John" until the time of Gingis Khan.
الصفحة 558 - ... there resided an inherent sanctity, and that the adoration of Christians ought not to be confined to the persons represented by these images, but extend to the images themselves.
الصفحة 562 - In this confession there was, among other tenets equally absurd, the following declaration, that "the bread and wine, after consecration, were not only a sacrament, but also the real body and blood of Jesus Christ ; and that this body and blood were handled by the priests and consumed by the faithful, and not in a sacramental sense, but in reality and truth, as other sensible objects are.
الصفحة 262 - Constantinople in 7, ;o, which degraded Germanus, bishop of that city, who was a patron of images ; and he ordered all the images to be publicly burnt, and inflicted a variety of severe punishments...
الصفحة 400 - This exemplary prelate, who sold every ecclesiastical benefice as soon as it became vacant, had in his stable above two thousand hunting horses, which he fed with pignuts, pistachios, dates, dried grapes, figs steeped in the most exquisite wines, to all which he added the richest perfumes.