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Page xxii
... things created , and cease to exist ; but the truth of God abideth forever . For more than eighteen centuries the Catholic Church has stood , a tower of strength , amidst the ruins of all things earthly , strewn in her pathway ...
... things created , and cease to exist ; but the truth of God abideth forever . For more than eighteen centuries the Catholic Church has stood , a tower of strength , amidst the ruins of all things earthly , strewn in her pathway ...
Page xxvii
... things , which are often confounded , should be accurately distinguished : namely , theological exclusiveness and civil intolerance . Our Protestant brethren have , in general , very vague and loose ideas upon this subject . Among them ...
... things , which are often confounded , should be accurately distinguished : namely , theological exclusiveness and civil intolerance . Our Protestant brethren have , in general , very vague and loose ideas upon this subject . Among them ...
Page xxviii
... things , and performing all their actions for His honor and glory . If these principles be intolerant , then must we plead guilty to the charge . But if they be such as are essentially connected with Christianity itself , such as alone ...
... things , and performing all their actions for His honor and glory . If these principles be intolerant , then must we plead guilty to the charge . But if they be such as are essentially connected with Christianity itself , such as alone ...
Page xlii
... things ; and that he neither claims , nor we allow , any jurisdiction over us in temporal matters affecting our civil allegiance . This question has been so long settled throughout the civilized world , that its revival at present ...
... things ; and that he neither claims , nor we allow , any jurisdiction over us in temporal matters affecting our civil allegiance . This question has been so long settled throughout the civilized world , that its revival at present ...
Page xliv
... things which are Caesar's , to God the things which are God's . Be not , then , heedful of the misrepresentations of foolish men , who , unable to combat the evidences of our faith , seek to excite unjust prejudice against that ...
... things which are Caesar's , to God the things which are God's . Be not , then , heedful of the misrepresentations of foolish men , who , unable to combat the evidences of our faith , seek to excite unjust prejudice against that ...
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Page 569 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 85 - The Poet's bays and Critic's ivy grow : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame...
Page 376 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Page 378 - Flashy people may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people in a country where they have as much mother-wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism can question them.
Page 519 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page xliv - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty ; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page xxii - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.
Page 310 - The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 371 - ... that the magistrate ought not to punish the breach of the first table, otherwise than in such cases as did disturb the civil peace; 2, that he ought not to tender an oath to an unregenerate man; 3, that a man ought not to pray with such, though wife, child etc.; 4, that a man ought not to give thanks after the sacrament nor after meat...
Page 280 - ... the love of that renown which is the noblest recompense of man. But, if any among you covet riches more, be but true to me, as I will be true to you and to the occasion, and I will make you masters of such as our countrymen have never dreamed of! You are few in number, but strong in resolution; and, if this does not falter, doubt not but that the Almighty, who has never deserted the Spaniard in his contest with the infidel, will shield you, though encompassed by a cloud of enemies; for your cause...