An Account of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events: Which Have Transpired from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present TimeL. H. Young, 1834 - 408 pages |
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... carried on the dreadful work of Decius , and made the Christians groan under his persecuting hand . A terrible pestilence hav- ing desolated the Roman provinces , the pagan priests improved the occasion , industriously attributing the ...
... carried on the dreadful work of Decius , and made the Christians groan under his persecuting hand . A terrible pestilence hav- ing desolated the Roman provinces , the pagan priests improved the occasion , industriously attributing the ...
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... carried into action . This denomination acknowledged the immortality of the soul , future re- wards and punishments , the existence of good and evil angels , and the resurrection of the body . They main- tained both the freedom of the ...
... carried into action . This denomination acknowledged the immortality of the soul , future re- wards and punishments , the existence of good and evil angels , and the resurrection of the body . They main- tained both the freedom of the ...
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... carried on with violence for several years . The Fourth was under Antoninus , when the Chris- tians were banished from their houses , forbidden to show their heads , reproached , beaten , hurried from place to place , plundered ...
... carried on with violence for several years . The Fourth was under Antoninus , when the Chris- tians were banished from their houses , forbidden to show their heads , reproached , beaten , hurried from place to place , plundered ...
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... carried to a conspicuous place , and put to death by the sword . The Sixth began with the reign of the emperor Maximinus , 235 . The Seventh , which was the most dreadful ever known , began in 250 , under the emperor Decius , when the ...
... carried to a conspicuous place , and put to death by the sword . The Sixth began with the reign of the emperor Maximinus , 235 . The Seventh , which was the most dreadful ever known , began in 250 , under the emperor Decius , when the ...
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... Being accordingly carried before the governor , the deceit was immediately discovered ; and Amphibalus being absent , that officer determined to wreak his vengeance upon Alban ; with this view 75 Alban, the first British Martyr.
... Being accordingly carried before the governor , the deceit was immediately discovered ; and Amphibalus being absent , that officer determined to wreak his vengeance upon Alban ; with this view 75 Alban, the first British Martyr.
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Page 324 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous, hosanna round.
Page 149 - AVENGE, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them, who kept Thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not. In Thy book record their groans, Who were Thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 45 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains...
Page 320 - 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.
Page 190 - ... incurred ; and, then, from all thy, sins, transgressions, and excesses, how enormous soever they may be ; even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the holy see ; and as far as the...
Page 12 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 320 - 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. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Page 319 - The knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea," and, " all shall know the Lord from the least unto the greatest.
Page 85 - Whilst Alypius, assisted by the governor of the province, urged, with vigour and diligence, the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned.
Page 48 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations : and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.