...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...

...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...

...arising out of martyrdoms were very frequent in those ages, and indeed occasioned the oft-repeated adage, that "the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." The intrepid constancy of Laurentius worked so strong a conviction in two of the spectators, (one of...

...which " he had fully known" at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra* The old saying was here again made true, that " the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church." Timothy's young name was that night added to " the glorious company of the apostles." Paul, doubtless,...

...in great number ; yet Christianity had only the more flourished ; insomuch that it 100 passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. The Bawa denied that the disciples were few ; and referred to passages in John 1 1 and 12, in which...

...whom they persecuted. 'The despisers beheld, and wondered, and perished.' They were astonished to see that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church : the grace and power of Christ shewed forth in His saints perplexed and confused their plans. They...

...Word, which was delivered by those holy and injured men, took effect ; and it tvas justly observed, that " the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." The patience and firmness of the martyrs in extreme suffering, induced many to renounce heathenism,...

...well as by their doctrine. It was a say ing among the Christians of antiquity, founded in experience, that " the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. r In the third place, Jesus Christ requires no service from his disciples, for which he does not furnish...

...whom they persecuted. 'The despisers beheld, and wondered, and perished.' They were astonished to see that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church: the grace and power of Christ shewed forth in His saints perplexed and confused their plans. They had...

...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...