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... traveller , Dr. Gilly , who re- called the public attention to the Waldenses in 1823 , says , with reference to M. Muston , the father of the author from whose work the above extract is taken : - " Some of my countrymen have judged a ...
... traveller , Dr. Gilly , who re- called the public attention to the Waldenses in 1823 , says , with reference to M. Muston , the father of the author from whose work the above extract is taken : - " Some of my countrymen have judged a ...
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... traveller in the year 1823. It is needless to observe , that though the general character of the Wal- denses has been the same from a very early period , the details of their circumstances have varied . They did not always sit in peace ...
... traveller in the year 1823. It is needless to observe , that though the general character of the Wal- denses has been the same from a very early period , the details of their circumstances have varied . They did not always sit in peace ...
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... travellers , clothed in gray , who , in the fifteenth century , after supping at the cottage of Pieronette of Beauregard , in Valentinois , are stated to have asked her whether she had heard of a handful of people that are in the world ...
... travellers , clothed in gray , who , in the fifteenth century , after supping at the cottage of Pieronette of Beauregard , in Valentinois , are stated to have asked her whether she had heard of a handful of people that are in the world ...
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... traveller says , form a garden , with deserts , as it were , in view : some parts are barren and repulsive , but these are exceptions . On the contrary , in the retreats of the French Protestants , fertility is the exception , barren ...
... traveller says , form a garden , with deserts , as it were , in view : some parts are barren and repulsive , but these are exceptions . On the contrary , in the retreats of the French Protestants , fertility is the exception , barren ...
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... Mapes describes the examination of two of their teachers before the council of Rome , in the year 1179. He speaks of them as called Valdesians , or the poor men of Lyons , and describes them as travelling two and two , in THE WALDENSES .
... Mapes describes the examination of two of their teachers before the council of Rome , in the year 1179. He speaks of them as called Valdesians , or the poor men of Lyons , and describes them as travelling two and two , in THE WALDENSES .
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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.