 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...pro-, mised paradise. " The sword," says Mahomet, " is the key of heaven and hell : a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...two months of fasting and prayer ; whoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendant as vermillion,... | |
 | J. W. Baker - Apologetics - 1817 - 262 pages
...offered to the idolaters. * The sword (saith Mahomet) is the key of heaven and of hell : a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or pray-J cr. Whosoever falls in hattle, his sms are forgiven at the day of judgment; his wounds shall... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - Creation - 1818 - 416 pages
...most heroic warrior. " The sword," says the Koran, " is the key of heaven and of hell: a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer: whosoever fails in battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment his wounds shall... | |
 | John Evans - Baptists - 1819 - 444 pages
...hatred and cruelty. « The sword (saith the Koran), is the key of heaven and of hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...more avail than two months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds shall be resplendent... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1819 - 626 pages
...to bribe heaven, by benefactions to the church, in- order to supersede all future inquest. of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of mure avail than two months of fasting and prayer ; whoever falls in hattle, his sins are forgiven ;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 528 pages
...martyrs of the faith. " The sword," says Mahomet, " is the key of heaven and of " hell : a drop of blood shed in the cause of " God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail " than two months fasting or prayer ; whoso" ever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven : at" the day of judgment his... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1821 - 550 pages
...argument but the sword. " The sword," says he, " is the key of heaven and of " hell. A drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a " night spent in arms,...more avail than two " months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in " battle, his sins are forgiven. At the day of judg" ment his wounds shall be resplendent... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...The word," said he, " is the key of heaven and hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, or a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds shall be resplendent... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...The word," said he, " is the key of heaven and hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, or a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer. M7hosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds shall be resplendent... | |
 | United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...may be buried, certainly the policy of this martial apostle was a superior one. " A drop of blood," says he, " shed in the cause of God, a night spent...two months of fasting and prayer : whoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment, his wound shall be resplendent as vermillion,... | |
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is the key of heaven and of hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent... 
