An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, with an Appendix, Giving a Condensed History of the Jews from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present DayVanderpool & Cole, 1828 - 420 pages |
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... Popes , who were continually seeking control of the spiritual world , gave the preference to human compositions above ... pope were no new things ; but had been common , and had been submitted to in the first ages of Christianity . The ...
... Popes , who were continually seeking control of the spiritual world , gave the preference to human compositions above ... pope were no new things ; but had been common , and had been submitted to in the first ages of Christianity . The ...
Page 209
... Pope . The Pomeranians , Finlanders , Sclavo- nians , and Livonians , received baptism at the point of the spear ... Popes of Rome were careful to patronize them , that they might make them tools of their ambition . Every project of the ...
... Pope . The Pomeranians , Finlanders , Sclavo- nians , and Livonians , received baptism at the point of the spear ... Popes of Rome were careful to patronize them , that they might make them tools of their ambition . Every project of the ...
Page 218
... popes , others to a general council ; but the minds of the people at large , fully believed it was committed to the Catholic church , and , as this was governed by the pope , it placed him in the seat of God , and gave him a kind of ...
... popes , others to a general council ; but the minds of the people at large , fully believed it was committed to the Catholic church , and , as this was governed by the pope , it placed him in the seat of God , and gave him a kind of ...
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... Pope Sylvester II . who in the tenth century , address- ed an epistle to the Church universal , as from the ... popes used every artifice to increase the excitement made by the hermit , and increase the number of spiritual soldiers . A ...
... Pope Sylvester II . who in the tenth century , address- ed an epistle to the Church universal , as from the ... popes used every artifice to increase the excitement made by the hermit , and increase the number of spiritual soldiers . A ...
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... pope haughty and arro- gant in the extreme , drove Henry , emperor of Germany , from his throne , and compelled him in the winter of 1077 , to cross the Alps , and stand three days in the open air at the entrance of the pontiff's palace ...
... pope haughty and arro- gant in the extreme , drove Henry , emperor of Germany , from his throne , and compelled him in the winter of 1077 , to cross the Alps , and stand three days in the open air at the entrance of the pontiff's palace ...
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Page 108 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Page 85 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 14 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 23 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy...
Page 19 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor : and they served other gods.
Page 50 - And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest; it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 115 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 20 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth. and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Page 41 - But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither : notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee : 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.