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Page 11
... hand of the Lord has also been with the Vaudois ; and so long as the present generation give God the praise for the victories obtained by their fore- fathers , we cannot require them to be silent upon THE WALDENSES . 11.
... hand of the Lord has also been with the Vaudois ; and so long as the present generation give God the praise for the victories obtained by their fore- fathers , we cannot require them to be silent upon THE WALDENSES . 11.
Page 30
... hand of the celebrated Eusebius , who lived about the year 355 ; Dr. Henderson describes it as a small quarto , strongly bound , richly decorated with gold and precious stones . The vellum on which it is written is much decayed ...
... hand of the celebrated Eusebius , who lived about the year 355 ; Dr. Henderson describes it as a small quarto , strongly bound , richly decorated with gold and precious stones . The vellum on which it is written is much decayed ...
Page 39
... hands as handicraftmen and day labourers . They do not heap up riches , but are content with necessaries . They are also very chaste . They are very sparing and temperate in eating and drinking ; they do not frequent taverns and ale ...
... hands as handicraftmen and day labourers . They do not heap up riches , but are content with necessaries . They are also very chaste . They are very sparing and temperate in eating and drinking ; they do not frequent taverns and ale ...
Page 48
... Sacer- dotium , wherein is showed what is the charge of a good pastor and what the punishment of a wicked . " There is also come to our hands a book of poetry in the Waldensian tongue , wherein are these treatises 48 SKETCHES OF.
... Sacer- dotium , wherein is showed what is the charge of a good pastor and what the punishment of a wicked . " There is also come to our hands a book of poetry in the Waldensian tongue , wherein are these treatises 48 SKETCHES OF.
Page 51
... hand . To this view , the following pas- sage refers , at the opening of the treatise : - Oh ! brethren , hear a noble lesson , We ought always to watch and pray , For we see this world is near its end . We ought to be earnest in doing ...
... hand . To this view , the following pas- sage refers , at the opening of the treatise : - Oh ! brethren , hear a noble lesson , We ought always to watch and pray , For we see this world is near its end . We ought to be earnest in doing ...
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Page 31 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Page 190 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 135 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in 'order the things that are t wanting, and 'ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee : 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.
Page 147 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 146 - 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 28 - We've no abiding city here ; Then let us live as pilgrims do : Let not the world our rest appear, But let us haste from all below. 4 We've no abiding city here...
Page 146 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 173 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 192 - God ! The banner of the chieftain, Far, far below us waves ; The war-horse of the spearman Cannot reach our lofty caves : Thy dark clouds wrap the threshold Of freedom's last abode ; For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers...
Page 152 - The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.