The Wanderings of the Human Intellect: Or, A New Dictionary of the Various Sects Into which the Christian Religion, in Ancient and in Modern Times, Has Been Divided; with an Impartial Discussion of the Mertis of Their Respective Claims to Orthodoxy. To which is Prefixed, an Introductory Essay on Universal History, as Well Civil as Ecclesiastic, from the Much-admired Historical Discourse of the Learned Dr. Pluquet, in Front of His Valuable Dictionary of All Religions ... By the Rev. John Bell |
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... Rome owed its origin and its grandeur . At its birth it resembled a kind of open plain , inhabited by a set of warriors or marauders , drawn together by the prospect of plunder , and , not unfrequently , by the hopes of impunity for ...
... Rome owed its origin and its grandeur . At its birth it resembled a kind of open plain , inhabited by a set of warriors or marauders , drawn together by the prospect of plunder , and , not unfrequently , by the hopes of impunity for ...
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... Rome was full of informers ; and to be virtuous or rich was deemed high treason : none presumed to advocate the cause of the unhappy sufferers , or even to bemoan the dead . The voice of nature was stifled in the general corruption ...
... Rome was full of informers ; and to be virtuous or rich was deemed high treason : none presumed to advocate the cause of the unhappy sufferers , or even to bemoan the dead . The voice of nature was stifled in the general corruption ...
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... Rome was at its zenith . He caused the laws to be respected within the empire ; subdued the Dacii ; gave kings to the Parthians ; conquered Armenia , the two Arabias , Felix and Petrea , Assyria , and an incredible number of nations ...
... Rome was at its zenith . He caused the laws to be respected within the empire ; subdued the Dacii ; gave kings to the Parthians ; conquered Armenia , the two Arabias , Felix and Petrea , Assyria , and an incredible number of nations ...
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... Rome . The armies of the East , Illyricum , and Great Britain , severally chose their respective emperors . These were - Niger , Albinus and Severus , who waged a furious war against each other till the close of this century . Severus ...
... Rome . The armies of the East , Illyricum , and Great Britain , severally chose their respective emperors . These were - Niger , Albinus and Severus , who waged a furious war against each other till the close of this century . Severus ...
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... Rome , at Athens , at Alexandria ; —and even in the most celebrated schools of each philosophic sect , though supported by the fury of popular commotion , the authority of the laws , and the power of arbitrary rulers . This amazing ...
... Rome , at Athens , at Alexandria ; —and even in the most celebrated schools of each philosophic sect , though supported by the fury of popular commotion , the authority of the laws , and the power of arbitrary rulers . This amazing ...
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Page 238 - THEY also are to be had accursed, that presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature. For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 379 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 382 - Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptised, shall be saved ; but he that believeth not, shall be damned.
Page 378 - Going, therefore, teach ye all nations : baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world.
Page 177 - Christ ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
Page 177 - I profess, likewise, that in the mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead...
Page 176 - And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets. And I believe one Catholic and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen.
Page 176 - Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father.
Page 176 - God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
Page 176 - I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible...