An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, Form the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century, Volume 2

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Page 372 - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Page 107 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands ; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Page 51 - ... the manner in which the body and blood of Christ are present in the sacred supper.
Page 385 - So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness ; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured beast full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Page 470 - Franciscans, forgetting, in their enthusiastic frenzy, the veneration they owed to the Son of God, and animated with a mad zeal for advancing the glory of their order and its founder, impiously maintained, that the latter was a Second Christ, in all respects similar to the first ; and that their institution and discipline was the true gospel of Jesus.
Page 251 - There were not wanting before this time certain collections of the canons or laws of the church ; but these collections were so destitute of order and method, and were so defective both in respect to matter and form, that they could not be conveniently explained in the schools, or be made use of as systems of ecclesiastical polity.
Page 51 - But this consequence was quickly retorted upon those that imagined it ; for they who denied the metamorphosis of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ...
Page 525 - Rome was entirely groundless. However, his enemies so far prevailed, that by the most scandalous breach of public faith, he was cast into prison, declared a heretic, because he refused to plead guilty against the dictates of his conscience...
Page 37 - ... clothe them with an imaginary power of healing diseases, working miracles, and delivering from all sorts of calamities and dangers ; their bones, their clothes ; the apparel and furniture they had possessed during their lives, the very...
Page 268 - Appeals, if they arise, must be made from the archdeacon to the bishop, and from the bishop to the archbishop ; and if the archbishop shall fail in administering justice...

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