Popery in Alliance with Heathenism: Letters Proving the Conformity which Subsists Between the Romish Religion and the Religion of the Ancient HeathensJ. Hatchard and Son, 1835 - 112 pages |
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Page 101 - And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?
Page 115 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
Page 100 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Page 18 - Aquaminariwn or amula, says the learned Montfaucon, was " a vase of holy water, placed by the heathens at the entrance of their temples, to sprinkle themselves with...
Page 63 - midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill: (Whose groves the Selli, race austere! surround, Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground; Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees; And catch the fates, low-whispered in the breeze;) Hear, as of old! Thou gav'st, at Thetis' prayer, Glory to me, and to the Greeks despair.
Page 9 - Indeed, bitter and earnest writing must not hastily be condemned ; for men cannot contend coldly, and without affection, about things which they hold dear and precious. A politic man may write from his brain without touch and sense of his heart ; as in a speculation that appertaineth not unto him ; but a feeling Christian will express in his words a character of zeal or love.
Page 93 - This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin, for ever sat down on the right hand of God, for by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Page 66 - ... to revenge himself. But, if there be any gods who desire to be worshipped after this manner, they do not deserve to be worshipped at all, since the very worst of tyrants, though they have sometimes torn and tortured people's limbs, yet have never commanded men to torture themselves.
Page 44 - Before this glorious picture as they affirm, great numbers of the dead have been restored to life, and hundreds from the agonies of death ; the dumb, the blind, the deaf, the lame have been cured...
Page 66 - In one of those processions made lately to St. Peter's in the time of Lent, I saw that ridiculous penance of the flagellantes or self-whippers, who march with whips in their hands, and lash themselves as they go along on the bare back till it is all covered with blood ; in the same manner as the fanatical priests of Bellona or the Syrian Goddess, as well as the votaries of Isis, used to slash and cut themselves of old, in order to please the goddess by the sacrifice of their own blood, which mad...