 | 1856 - 686 halaman
...to Christ; and the plain, unadorned preaching of Paul transformed the appearance of the Roman world. The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church ; and the prayers of the poor shook the kingdom of Satan to its foundation. It is nothing for the Lord to... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1844 - 578 halaman
...severities, but has it been^with any better success there than here ? The very earliest Christians boasted that the blood of the Martyrs was the seed of the Church. The Emperor Julian, the most terrible enemy, that Christianity ever experienced, was penetrated with... | |
 | Horace Newman - 1844 - 122 halaman
...persecutions, Christianity continued widely and rapidly to extend itself, proving the truth of the assertion, that " the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." Tertullian, an eminent writer of this century, lived at Carthage in Africa. He was of a severe and... | |
 | John Dowling - 1845 - 698 halaman
...continued to be the subjects of cruel and bitter persecution from the papists, and yet in the midst of all, the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church, and the cause of God and of truth continued steadily to advance. At length, in the year 1598, twenty-six... | |
 | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - 1846 - 538 halaman
...have they been attended with any better success there than here ? The very earliest Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. The emperor Julian, the most terrible enemy that Christianity ever experienced was fully persuaded... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1846 - 578 halaman
...have they been attended with any better success there than here ? The very earliest Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. The emperor Julian, the most terrible enemy that Christianity ever experienced was fully persuaded... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1847 - 554 halaman
...have they been attended with any better success there than here ? The very earliest Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. The emperor Julian, the most terrible enemy that Christianity ever experienced was fully persuaded... | |
 | John Sundins Stamp - 1851 - 748 halaman
...vigorous, and the interpositions of Divine Providence in behalf of this immortal cause more signal. " The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." And this is proeidential succession. Let us endeavour to trace its continuity from the Lollards to the... | |
 | John Brown - 1848 - 488 halaman
...cause of Christ, have not the sufferings of Christians been fully as efficient as their exertions? " The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church ;" and Christianity, as well as Christ, may say to her enemies, " Rejoice not against me ; when I fall, I... | |
 | David Hume - 1848 - 560 halaman
...as being an improper measure for the suppression of any religion, according to the received maxim, That the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. He also condemned an entire indulgence of the Catholics, and seemed to represent a middle course as... | |
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Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. 
