Matthew Paris's English history, from 1235 to 1273, tr. by J.A. Giles, Volume 1

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Page 102 - Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Page 42 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 145 - Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth: for he hath not another to help him up.
Page 110 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 59 - Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Page 175 - This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Page 103 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ...
Page 284 - I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 102 - THE elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed...
Page 535 - LAMARTINE'S GENEVIEVE; or, The History of a Servant Girl. Translated bjr AR SCOBI.K.* 26. MAYO'S BERBER ; or, The Mountaineer of the Atlas. A Tale of Morocco. 27. WILLIS'S LIFE HERE AND THERE; or, Sketches of Society and Adventure.* 28. GUIZOT'S LIFE OF MONK, with Appendix and Portrait.* 29. THE CAPE AND THE KAFFIRS: A Diary of Five Years' Residence, with Advice to Emigrants.

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