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... earth humbling themselves to the very dust in the presence of him who was called " the Pope , " and sacrificing before him at once the majesty of kings and the dignity of men * ; -or , if there did sometimes appear a monarch , who ...
... earth humbling themselves to the very dust in the presence of him who was called " the Pope , " and sacrificing before him at once the majesty of kings and the dignity of men * ; -or , if there did sometimes appear a monarch , who ...
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... earth ! " " Then Superstition held her reign , ' While - priests combined - a ready train— Her throne on ignorance to rear , And rule her slaves by hope and fear . Obsequious , ' mid the trembling crowd , Slaves of their arts even ...
... earth ! " " Then Superstition held her reign , ' While - priests combined - a ready train— Her throne on ignorance to rear , And rule her slaves by hope and fear . Obsequious , ' mid the trembling crowd , Slaves of their arts even ...
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... earth " as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land . " As the mind cannot conceive a more iniquitous or more formidable system of oppression than that which was managed by the Roman Pontiffs , it would be dif- ficult to conceive one ...
... earth " as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land . " As the mind cannot conceive a more iniquitous or more formidable system of oppression than that which was managed by the Roman Pontiffs , it would be dif- ficult to conceive one ...
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... earth . Ut- The endurance which the pontifical domination had experienced , during so many hundreds of years , was owing , as has been already remarked , to the influence of religious belief on the credulous minds of the super- stitious ...
... earth . Ut- The endurance which the pontifical domination had experienced , during so many hundreds of years , was owing , as has been already remarked , to the influence of religious belief on the credulous minds of the super- stitious ...
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... earth - and behold in her one splen- did example of what the Reformation has done for li- berty . Liberty constitutes the foundation of all her greatness ; and the source of her liberty was the Re- formation . History , it is true ...
... earth - and behold in her one splen- did example of what the Reformation has done for li- berty . Liberty constitutes the foundation of all her greatness ; and the source of her liberty was the Re- formation . History , it is true ...
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Page 273 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying ; Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Page 113 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Bab-y-lon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 159 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 273 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 234 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 234 - ... evangelists, and of the holy innocents, who in the sight of the Holy Lamb, are found worthy to sing the new song of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, together with the holy and elect of God, May he...
Page 87 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 235 - in his thighs, in his genitals," [My father shook his head] " and in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and feet, and toe-nails ! " May he be cursed in all the joints and articulations of his members, from the top of his head to the sole of his foot! May there be no soundness in him ! " May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his majesty...
Page 274 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Page 184 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.