 | 1824 - 966 sidor
...common observation, that the severity of punishments for opinion increases the number of confessors — that " the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church ?" The power of natural sympathy with unmerited suffering — the abhorrence in the mind of man at the excessive... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1824 - 962 sidor
...common observation, that the severity of punishments for opinion increases the number of confessors — that *' the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church ?" The power of natural sympathy with unmerited suffering — the abhorrence in the mind of man at the excessive... | |
 | 1826 - 638 sidor
...the second century downwards, until, by the loss of liberty and life itself, they proved to posterity that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. The translator's Introductory Essay will * " Finally," says Bellarmine, " it is good for obstinate heretics... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1824 - 966 sidor
...common observation, that the severity of punishments for opinion increases the number of confessors — that *' the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church ?" The power of natural sympathy with unmerited suffering — the abhorrence in the mind of man at the excessive... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 sidor
...compassion, it excites their admiration of the sufferers, and creates in them a suspicion, that truth must certainly be found where they observe so much constancy...zeal which he wanted to extinguish. He had recourse t hen-lore to the expedient of ridicule and contempt ; and this he found to be more effectual. The... | |
 | 1841 - 516 sidor
...this, the number of those who embrace Christianity still increases ; verifying the truth of the adage, that " the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." The measures also of the queen, which have arrived at a frightful climax, are beginning to alarm the whole... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1843 - 256 sidor
...1087live a new life, or to leave a dying testimony in his turn ; and thus to verify die principle, that " the blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the church :" — the man who can realize this scene and remain unmoved, has little of the feelings of Christianity. He may... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...modern church had yielded so many martyrs as the Protestant Church of France, and surely if it was true that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, the soil of France, saturated with that martyr-blood, had yet to vield a glorious harvest to the glory... | |
 | 1847 - 300 sidor
...Church, which testimony was the sole cause of his condemnation ? Is then the saying of Tertullian untrue, that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church? The short interval between the punishment of the Italian Reformer, which occurred in May, l498, and the... | |
 | 1859 - 748 sidor
...throughout this magnificent island ; and then we doubt not again will Tertullian's words be illustrated, that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. * The numbers refer to the collection of printed hymns in the native language. The translation is verbal... | |
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Christians of old, that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. 
