An Historical Sketch of the Italian Vaudois: From the First Ages of Christianity to the Present Day : with Some Account of Their Ancient Documents |
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... address you on a subject of a more serious character than is usually brought before you on these occasions ; but which , I trust , will not be less acceptable on that ac- count ; as it is delivered before a Society , whose express ...
... address you on a subject of a more serious character than is usually brought before you on these occasions ; but which , I trust , will not be less acceptable on that ac- count ; as it is delivered before a Society , whose express ...
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... addressed to Uladislaus , king of Bo- hemia , they style themselves " the little , flock of Christians , falsely called Vaudois . " A great deal has been written respecting the ETYMOLOGY OF VAUDOIS . 9 etymology of the word Vaudois 8 ...
... addressed to Uladislaus , king of Bo- hemia , they style themselves " the little , flock of Christians , falsely called Vaudois . " A great deal has been written respecting the ETYMOLOGY OF VAUDOIS . 9 etymology of the word Vaudois 8 ...
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... addressed to Pope Lucius II , in 1144 , we find that such doc- trines , as Waldo afterwards taught , were openly received ; † and thus have obtained his religious views and his sirname from one and the same place ; being known as Peter ...
... addressed to Pope Lucius II , in 1144 , we find that such doc- trines , as Waldo afterwards taught , were openly received ; † and thus have obtained his religious views and his sirname from one and the same place ; being known as Peter ...
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... addressed by Al- cuin to the Christians in the province of the Goths , ( fratribus et patribus in provinciâ Gotho- rum ) , which Dr. Gilly calls Aquitain , but the geographical latitude allowed by the term , may synodus in suo consortio ...
... addressed by Al- cuin to the Christians in the province of the Goths , ( fratribus et patribus in provinciâ Gotho- rum ) , which Dr. Gilly calls Aquitain , but the geographical latitude allowed by the term , may synodus in suo consortio ...
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... addressed by Atto to his clergy , is to be found in Allix , which though it shows that superstition was on the increase in his diocese , and the power of the Popes exalted , maintains that the Scriptures are to be regarded as the basis ...
... addressed by Atto to his clergy , is to be found in Allix , which though it shows that superstition was on the increase in his diocese , and the power of the Popes exalted , maintains that the Scriptures are to be regarded as the basis ...
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Allix ancient Angrogna antiquity Aripert Arnaud attack Balsi Barbes Bishop Blendworth century Christian Church of Rome Claude clergy Clusone command confession Copies Cottian Alps Cottius Dauphiny death descended diocese Ditto doctrines Duke of Savoy edict Elliott endeavoured enemy England envoy Europe faith favour France French Frome Geneva Gilly Henri Arnaud heretics Holy inhabitants Italy Jahier Janavel King labour Leger letter liberty lofty Louis Lucerne manuscripts massacre mentioned minister Miss monks Mont Genèvre Mont Viso Morland mountain Noble Lesson obtained parishes pass Pastors persecution Peter Waldo Piedmont Pignerol Pope possessed present prisoners Protestant received religion religious rocks Roman Catholic Romish Rora says Scriptures sect sent snow Somerset subjects Surrey tain testimony tion Tour treaty troops truth Turin valley of Lucerne valley of Pragelas Vaudois Vaudois Church Victor Amadeus Vigilantius village Waldenses Waldensian Waldo whilst Wickham worship
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Page 130 - 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. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 130 - 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, 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 161 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms...
Page 185 - Of freedom's last abode ; For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers...
Page 127 - Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Page 4 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Page 151 - I would speak without any offence to your highness, seeing we believe none of these things were done through any default of yours,) certainly they would be ashamed when they should find that they had contrived nothing, in comparison with these things, that might be reputed barbarous and inhuman.
Page 2 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Page 12 - Who first beholds the Alps — that mighty chain Of Mountains, stretching on from east to west, So massive, yet so shadowy, so ethereal, As to belong rather to Heaven than Earth — But instantly receives into his soul A sense, a feeling that he loses not, A something that informs him 't is a moment Whence he may date henceforward and for ever ? To me they seem'd the barriers of a World, Saying, Thus far, no farther ! and as o'er 1 LaCrgoe.
Page 27 - He found here a plain religion (simplicity is the badge of antiquity,) practised by the Britons, living some of them in the contempt, and many more in the ignorance of worldly vanities. He brought in a religion spun with a coarser thread, though guarded with a finer trimming ; made luscious to the senses with pleasing ceremonies, so that many who could not judge of the goodness were courted with the gaudinesB thereof.