Heroes for the TruthPresbyterian Publication Committee, 1840 - 245 Seiten |
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... soon found a congenial outlet for them all . Moved , we know not how , he resolved to visit his mother's native land , with the design , it is believed , of making the gospel more extensively known in those parts . It was about the year ...
... soon found a congenial outlet for them all . Moved , we know not how , he resolved to visit his mother's native land , with the design , it is believed , of making the gospel more extensively known in those parts . It was about the year ...
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... soon to be- come I - colm - kil , the island of Colum's cell . The rude natives also resisted the missionary on the adjoining mainland , and more than once endangered his life . The king , a Pict , further attempted to re- press him ...
... soon to be- come I - colm - kil , the island of Colum's cell . The rude natives also resisted the missionary on the adjoining mainland , and more than once endangered his life . The king , a Pict , further attempted to re- press him ...
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... soon obtained a grant of the island from its Pictish king , and there laid the foundation of an influence which is scarcely yet exhausted . Indeed , we may question if any spot on the face of the earth , so insulated and seques- tered ...
... soon obtained a grant of the island from its Pictish king , and there laid the foundation of an influence which is scarcely yet exhausted . Indeed , we may question if any spot on the face of the earth , so insulated and seques- tered ...
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... soon brought him into collision with dark , medieval minds . He came into close contact with the peo- ple's wants on the one hand , and the worse than worthlessness of the reigning superstitions on the other ; and a nature already ...
... soon brought him into collision with dark , medieval minds . He came into close contact with the peo- ple's wants on the one hand , and the worse than worthlessness of the reigning superstitions on the other ; and a nature already ...
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... soon have other reasons for indulging such righte- ous indignation . He has entered the arena to con- tend against the corruptions of the clergy , and he must suffer he must die . What else could any man expect , who dared to preach ...
... soon have other reasons for indulging such righte- ous indignation . He has entered the arena to con- tend against the corruptions of the clergy , and he must suffer he must die . What else could any man expect , who dared to preach ...
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Seite 147 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Seite 110 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.
Seite 65 - ... pernicious books, detest them, abhor them, keep them not in your hands, deliver them to the superiors, such as call for them ; and if, by reading of them heretofore, any thing...
Seite 106 - ... his handful of clay ; though his living groups, his crawling reptiles, his 'slimy snails, his slippery frogs, his lively lizards, and his damp herbs and dripping mosses had never adorned those dishes...
Seite 60 - Some man will ask, peradventure, Why I take the labour to make this work, inasmuch as they will burn it, seeing they burnt the Gospel? I answer, In burning the New Testament they did none other thing than that I looked for ; no more shall they do if they burn me also, if it be God's will it shall so be.
Seite 54 - I had no man to counterfeit, neither was helped with English of any that had interpreted the same or such like thing in the scripture beforetime.
Seite 53 - if it would stand with the king's most gracious pleasure, to grant only a bare text of the scriptures to be put forth among his people...
Seite 54 - ... to affirm that good is the natural cause of evil, and darkness to proceed out of light, and that lying should be grounded in truth and verity ; and not rather clean contrary, that light destroyeth darkness, and verity reproveth all manner of lying.
Seite 147 - Thou gav'st me milk and sweetnesses ; I had my wish and way : My days were strewed with flowers and happiness : There was no month but May.