 | James Smith - 1858 - 394 halaman
...Christ ; and the plain, unadorned preaching of Paul transformed the appearance of the Uoman. 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... | |
 | John Lockhart Ross - 1858 - 340 halaman
...persecution and so brief duration, we dis* Plin. Lib. x. Ep. 97. cover an llustration of the remark, that "the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church." By the conversion of the Emperor Constantino and the establishment of Christianity as the religion... | |
 | 1859 - 416 halaman
...conversions were daily and numerously made to the Christian faith. It was, indeed, ascertained, and became a proverb, that "The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church !" At length, however, the enemy found that he could not in this way succeed ; and very adroitly changed... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 226 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... | |
 | Edward Burton - 1860 - 724 halaman
...peace at the last : and never was the saying more verified than throughout the whole of this century, that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. There is evidence, that the Gospel had been preached, not only in Arabia and Persia, but eveu in Bactria... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1886 - 898 halaman
...delusions of the system, it has been true in respect to it, as to a purer and more enlightened faith, that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. From that time the Babys, in obedience to the command of their, leader, have remained quiet ; not hesitating,... | |
 | 1886 - 892 halaman
...delusions of the system, it has been true in respect to it, as to a purer and more enlightened faith, that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. From that time the B&bys, in obedience to the command of their leader, have remained quiet ; not hesitating,... | |
 | 1886 - 856 halaman
...delusions of the system, it has been true in respect to it, as to a purer and more enlightened faith, that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. From that time the Bâbys, in obedience to the command of their leader, have remained quiet ; not hesitating,... | |
 | Arsenius John Baptist Vuibert - 1886 - 696 halaman
...harassed in a thousand ways, tracked, cast into dungeons, horribly tormented, and put to death. But " the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church," and the number of Christians increased with the persecution. HERESIES. — Invincible against external... | |
 | 1880 - 350 halaman
...century, the enemies of Christianity had got tired of shedding the blood of the martyrs. They found that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. For every life that was sacrificed at the stake, or on the block, or by the lions, twenty fresh lives... | |
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Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. 
