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 Seiten |
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Seite 101 - And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?
Seite 115 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
Seite 100 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Seite 94 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day. Shall the whole world in ashes lay, As David and the Sibyls say. What horror will invade the mind, When the strict Judge, who would be kind, Shall have few venial faults to find! The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall through the rending tombs rebound. And wake the nations under ground. Nature and Death shall, with surprise, Behold the pale offender...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 32 - In passing along the road, it is common to see travellers on their knees before these rustic altars ; which none ever presume to approach without some act of reverence ; and those who are most in haste, or at a distance, are sure to pull off their hats at least, in token of respect: and I took notice, that our...