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Side 68
... faith , as well as of the power , of the empire . Great numbers of the Alani , ap- peased by the punctual discharge of the engage- * Hist . August . p . 228 . ments XII . ments which Aurelian had contracted with them , 68 THE DECLINE ...
... faith , as well as of the power , of the empire . Great numbers of the Alani , ap- peased by the punctual discharge of the engage- * Hist . August . p . 228 . ments XII . ments which Aurelian had contracted with them , 68 THE DECLINE ...
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... faith of Diocletian towards his friends . Truncatæ vires urbis , imminuto prætoriarum cohortium atque in armis vulgi numero . Aurelius Victor . Lactantius attributes to Galerius the prosecution of the same plan . ( c . 26. ) XIII . CHA ...
... faith of Diocletian towards his friends . Truncatæ vires urbis , imminuto prætoriarum cohortium atque in armis vulgi numero . Aurelius Victor . Lactantius attributes to Galerius the prosecution of the same plan . ( c . 26. ) XIII . CHA ...
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... faith , they attacked the remainder of their theological system with all the fury of civil war . The new Platonists would scarcely deserve a place in the history of science , but in that of the church , the mention of them will very fre ...
... faith , they attacked the remainder of their theological system with all the fury of civil war . The new Platonists would scarcely deserve a place in the history of science , but in that of the church , the mention of them will very fre ...
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... faith of an honour- able capitulation . He was at first received with humanity , and treated with respect . Maximian conducted the captive emperor to Rome , and gave him the most solemn assurances that he had secured his life by the ...
... faith of an honour- able capitulation . He was at first received with humanity , and treated with respect . Maximian conducted the captive emperor to Rome , and gave him the most solemn assurances that he had secured his life by the ...
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... faith which they professed . But the scandal of the pious Christian , and the fallacious triumph of the infidel , should cease as soon as they recollect not only by whom , but likewise to whom , the Divine Revelation was given . The ...
... faith which they professed . But the scandal of the pious Christian , and the fallacious triumph of the infidel , should cease as soon as they recollect not only by whom , but likewise to whom , the Divine Revelation was given . The ...
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Side 269 - And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Side 263 - While that great body," he observes, " was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition, and finally erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins of the Capitol.
Side 264 - Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by what means the Christian faith obtained so remarkable a victory over the established religions of the earth. To this inquiry an obvious but satisfactory answer may be returned ; that it was owing to the convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and to the ruling providence of its great Author.
Side 288 - ... circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or of private life; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without, at the same time, renouncing the commerce of mankind and all the offices and amusements of society.
Side 40 - Rome, and flourished more than one hundred and fifty years in the subordinate though honorable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if we may judge from a few remaining inscriptions, that the wealthy Palmyrenians constructed those temples, palaces, and porticos of Grecian architecture, whose ruins, scattered over an extent of several miles, have deserved the curiosity of our travellers.
Side 273 - It became the most sacred duty of a new convert to diffuse among his friends and relations the inestimable blessing which he had received, and to warn them against a refusal that would be severely punished as a criminal disobedience to the will of a benevolent but all-powerful deity.
Side 316 - Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. As the greater number were of some trade or profession, it was incumbent on them, by the strictest integrity and the fairest dealing, to remove the suspicions which the profane are too apt to conceive against the appearances of sanctity. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience.
Side 329 - ... of collecting the sentiments, and of executing the resolutions, of the assembly. A regard for the public tranquillity, which would so frequently have been interrupted by annual or by occasional elections, induced the primitive Christians to constitute an honourable and perpetual magistracy, and to choose one of the wisest and.
Side 299 - ... was permitted to subsist in the church, it was productive of the most salutary effects on the faith and practice of Christians, who lived in the awful expectation of that moment when the globe itself, and all the various race of mankind, should tremble at the appearance of their divine Judge.
Side 329 - The public functions of religion were solely intrusted to the established ministers of the church, the bishops and the presbyters; two appellations which, in their first origin, appear to have distinguished the same office and the same order of persons.