An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: In Six Volumes, in which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power are Considered in Their Connexion with the State of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe During that Period, Volumen2W. Gracie, 1819 |
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... honour of the Pagan deities , were celebrated with the utmost freedom and impunity ; and persons of the highest rank and authority professed pub- licly the religion of their idolatrous ancestors [ d ] . This liberty was , however , from ...
... honour of the Pagan deities , were celebrated with the utmost freedom and impunity ; and persons of the highest rank and authority professed pub- licly the religion of their idolatrous ancestors [ d ] . This liberty was , however , from ...
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... honours and advantages , and the desire of obtaining suc- cour against their enemies from the countenance of the Christians , or the miraculous influences of their religion , were the prevailing motives that induced the greatest part to ...
... honours and advantages , and the desire of obtaining suc- cour against their enemies from the countenance of the Christians , or the miraculous influences of their religion , were the prevailing motives that induced the greatest part to ...
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... honours and rank , that was at this time accumulated upon the bi- shops of Constantinople , in opposition to the most vigorous efforts of the Roman pontiff . In the preceding century , the council of Constantinople had , on account of ...
... honours and rank , that was at this time accumulated upon the bi- shops of Constantinople , in opposition to the most vigorous efforts of the Roman pontiff . In the preceding century , the council of Constantinople had , on account of ...
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... honours , which had been con- ferred upon the bishop of Rome , were due to the bishop of Constantinople , on account of the equal dignity and lustre of the two cities , in which these prelates exercised their authority . The same coun ...
... honours , which had been con- ferred upon the bishop of Rome , were due to the bishop of Constantinople , on account of the equal dignity and lustre of the two cities , in which these prelates exercised their authority . The same coun ...
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... honours of various kinds . Among all the prelates who ruled the church of Rome during this century , there was none who asserted , with such vigour and success , the au- thority and pretensions of the Roman pontiff as Leo , commonly ...
... honours of various kinds . Among all the prelates who ruled the church of Rome during this century , there was none who asserted , with such vigour and success , the au- thority and pretensions of the Roman pontiff as Leo , commonly ...
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Página 420 - 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.
Página 419 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled : and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Página 343 - 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...
Página 319 - This idolatrous devotion was now considered as the most sacred and momentous branch of religion, nor did any dare to entertain the smallest hopes of finding the Deity propitious, before they had assured themselves of the protection and intercession of some one or other of the saintly order. Hence it was that every church, and indeed every private Christian, had their particular patron among the saints, from an apprehension that their spiritual interests would be but indifferently managed by those,...
Página 39 - The images of those, who, during their lives, had acquired the reputation of uncommon sanctity, were now honoured with a particular worship in several places; and many imagined, that this worship drew down into the images the propitious presence of the saints or celestial beings they represented...
Página 373 - Prince of that region, whom the Nestorians converted to the Christian faith, assumed, according to the vulgar tradition, the name of John after his baptism, to which he added the surname of "Presbyter," from a principle of modesty; whence, it is said, his successors were each of them called " Prester John" until the time of Gingis Khan.
Página 558 - ... there resided an inherent sanctity, and that the adoration of Christians ought not to be confined to the persons represented by these images, but extend to the images themselves.
Página 562 - In this confession there was, among other tenets equally absurd, the following declaration, that "the bread and wine, after consecration, were not only a sacrament, but also the real body and blood of Jesus Christ ; and that this body and blood were handled by the priests and consumed by the faithful, and not in a sacramental sense, but in reality and truth, as other sensible objects are.
Página 262 - Constantinople in 7, ;o, which degraded Germanus, bishop of that city, who was a patron of images ; and he ordered all the images to be publicly burnt, and inflicted a variety of severe punishments...
Página 400 - This exemplary prelate, who sold every ecclesiastical benefice as soon as it became vacant, had in his stable above two thousand hunting horses, which he fed with pignuts, pistachios, dates, dried grapes, figs steeped in the most exquisite wines, to all which he added the richest perfumes.