...and the bishops and clergy of those sequestered regions derived their ordination from the catholic of Babylon. In a subsequent age, the zeal of the Nestorians overleaped the limits which had confmed the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Balch and Samarcand...

...Babylon. In a subsequent age T xLvII. the zeal of the Nestorians overleaped the limits ~— v— J which had confined the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Baich and Sama«cand pursued without fear the footsteps of the rovingTanar,and insinuated themselves...

...their ordination from tht* xLVII. catnoiic of Babylon. In a subsequent age, the zeal of the NestoriaHS overleaped the limits which had confined the ambition...footsteps of the roving Tartar, and insinuated themselves jnto the camps of the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga. They exposed a metaphysical creed...

...and the bishops and clergy of those sequestered regions derived their ordination from the catholjc of Babylon. In a subsequent age, the zeal of the Nestorians...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the vallies of 116 See the Topographia Christiana of Cosmas, surnamed Indicopleustes, or the Indian Navigator,...

...tidings to Ceylon and_ Bombay, we are still more su? read in Gibbon that " ( sionaries from Balkh a pursued without fear the footsteps of the roving Tartar,...the valleys of Imaus, and the banks of the Selinga." When India was thus penetrated and surrounded by Christian missions so early as the fifth and sixth...

...hands of the Nestorian Christians the rites of baptism and ordination, when ' the missionaries of Balk and Samarcand pursued, without fear, the footsteps...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the vallies of Imaus, and the banks of the Selinga.' — ' In its long progress,' continues Gibbon, ' to...

...hands of the Nestorian Christians the rites of baptism and ordination, when ' the missionaries of Balk and Samarcand pursued, without fear, the footsteps...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the vallies of [mans, and the banks of the Selinga.' — ' In its long progress,' continues Gibbon, •...

...606, * 600). " •„, ' CHAP. of those sequestered regions derived their ordination from the catholic of Babylon. In a subsequent age, the zeal of the Nestorians...the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga. They exposed a metaphysical creed to those illiterate shepherds: to those sanguinary warriors, they...

...derived their ordination from the Catholics * of Babylon. In a subsequent age the Missionaries of Baleh and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the valley of Imans, and the banks of the Selinga. In their progress by sea and land the Nestorians entered...

...and the bishops and clergy of those sequestered regions derived their ordination from the catholic of Babylon. In a subsequent age, the zeal of the Nestorians...the footsteps of the roving Tartar, and insinuated them selves into the camps of the valleys of Imaus, and the banks of the Selinga. They exposed a metaphysical...