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... pagan authors relate and confirm them . Aurelius Victor speaking of Maximian says , cumque specie officii , dolis compositis , Constan- tinum generum tentaret acerbe , jure tamen in- terierat . Aur . Vict . de Cæsar . i . p . 63 ...
... pagan authors relate and confirm them . Aurelius Victor speaking of Maximian says , cumque specie officii , dolis compositis , Constan- tinum generum tentaret acerbe , jure tamen in- terierat . Aur . Vict . de Cæsar . i . p . 63 ...
Side 58
... Pagan mythology . But the belief of the Christian was accompanied with horror . The most trifling mark of respect to the national worship he considered as a direct homage yielded to the dæmon , and as an act of rebellion against the ...
... Pagan mythology . But the belief of the Christian was accompanied with horror . The most trifling mark of respect to the national worship he considered as a direct homage yielded to the dæmon , and as an act of rebellion against the ...
Side 59
... Pagan friend ( on the occasion perhaps of sneezing ) used the familiar expression of " Jupiter bless you , " the Christian was obliged to protest against the divinity of Jupiter . * The exaggerated and declamatory opinions of Tertullian ...
... Pagan friend ( on the occasion perhaps of sneezing ) used the familiar expression of " Jupiter bless you , " the Christian was obliged to protest against the divinity of Jupiter . * The exaggerated and declamatory opinions of Tertullian ...
Side 71
... Pagan magistrates . Of the pri- mitive miracles , the power of exorcising is the only one which has been assumed by Protestants . * ( 77 ) Irenæus adv . Hæreses , l . ii . 56 , 57. l . v . c . 6. Mr. Dodwell ( Dissertat . ad Irenæum ...
... Pagan magistrates . Of the pri- mitive miracles , the power of exorcising is the only one which has been assumed by Protestants . * ( 77 ) Irenæus adv . Hæreses , l . ii . 56 , 57. l . v . c . 6. Mr. Dodwell ( Dissertat . ad Irenæum ...
Side 74
... Pagan contemporaries , or their degenerate successors ; re- pentance for their past sins , and the laudable desire of supporting the reputation of the society in which they were engaged . * Effects of their " It is a very ancient ...
... Pagan contemporaries , or their degenerate successors ; re- pentance for their past sins , and the laudable desire of supporting the reputation of the society in which they were engaged . * Effects of their " It is a very ancient ...
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