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... mentioned in respect of the object of your Lordship's choice , it is inferior to none in the purity and disinterestedness of the motives which suggested it . How the following work may be re- ceived , I pretend not to foretel . My first ...
... mentioned in respect of the object of your Lordship's choice , it is inferior to none in the purity and disinterestedness of the motives which suggested it . How the following work may be re- ceived , I pretend not to foretel . My first ...
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... hominum supersti- tionis novæ et maleficæ * . " The Christians , a set of men of a new and mischievous ( or magical ) superstition , were punished . * Suet . Nero . cap . 16 . Since it is not mentioned here that the burning of 43.
... hominum supersti- tionis novæ et maleficæ * . " The Christians , a set of men of a new and mischievous ( or magical ) superstition , were punished . * Suet . Nero . cap . 16 . Since it is not mentioned here that the burning of 43.
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William Paley. Since it is not mentioned here that the burning of the city was the pretence of the punishment of the Christians , or that they were the Christians of Rome who alone suffered , it is probable that Suetonius re- fers to ...
William Paley. Since it is not mentioned here that the burning of the city was the pretence of the punishment of the Christians , or that they were the Christians of Rome who alone suffered , it is probable that Suetonius re- fers to ...
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... mentioned , perhaps not known , but probably connected with the civil history of the Jews , or with some danger * which engrossed the public atten- tion , an intermission about this time took place in the sufferings of the Christians ...
... mentioned , perhaps not known , but probably connected with the civil history of the Jews , or with some danger * which engrossed the public atten- tion , an intermission about this time took place in the sufferings of the Christians ...
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... mentioned by Saint Paul in his epistle to the Philip- pians , hath left us his attestation to this point , in the following words : " Let us take ( says he ) the examples of our own age . * 1 Cor . vi . 11 , 12 . + Philipp . iv . 3 ...
... mentioned by Saint Paul in his epistle to the Philip- pians , hath left us his attestation to this point , in the following words : " Let us take ( says he ) the examples of our own age . * 1 Cor . vi . 11 , 12 . + Philipp . iv . 3 ...
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Page 81 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 71 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Page 58 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord ; that the Lord Is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 58 - Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Page 90 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace ; and labour, working with our own hands...
Page 33 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Page 59 - ... so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure : which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer...
Page 96 - For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries...
Page 239 - Sun-day" all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits ; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Page 340 - I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.