 ... was permitted to subsist in the church, it was productive of the most salutary effects on the faith and practice of Christians, who lived in the awful expectation of that moment when the globe itself, and all the various race of mankind, should tremble...  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Stran 299avtor: Edward Gibbon - 1806Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 strani
..." Church, it was productive of the moft falutary efiects on " the faith and practice ofChriftians, who lived in the awful " expectation of that moment when the globe itfelf and all the " various race of mankind fliould tremble at the appearance of <; their divine Judge."... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 strani
...prophecy and revelation. But as long as for wise purposes this error was permitted to subsist in the church, it was productive of •the most salutary effects on the faith and practice of Chrisiiins, \vb,o lived in the awful expectation cf that moment when the globe itself, and all the... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 strani
...prophecy and revelation ; but as long as, for wise purposes, this error was permitted to subsist in the church, it was productive of the most salutary effects on the faith and practice of Christians6.' But the lapse of time, I conceive, furnishes a very different lesson. It instructs us,... | |
 | Nehemiah Nisbett - 1812 - 340 strani
...for wise purposes, this error was permit|ed to subsist in the church ; it was productive of the fnost salutary effects on the faith and practice of christians,...mankind should tremble at the appearance of their divine ,Judge."t If this objection, so acetely and pointedly urged, Jiad originated with Mr. Gibbon i you... | |
 | George Bush - 1832 - 292 strani
...prophecy and revelation ; but as long as, for wise purposes, this error was permitted to subsist in the church it was productive of the most salutary effects...tremble at the appearance of their divine Judge."* Can it be doubted that the language of the sacred writers is so constructed, as that it should, before... | |
 | Henry Dana Ward - 1838 - 204 strani
...error ; it was certainly a very singular one ; for, " as long as — it was permitted to subsist in the church, it was productive of the most salutary effects, on the faith and practice of Christians !" No doubt of it ; and they had much better remained in the " error," to this day : then all the reign... | |
 | W. J. P. Wilkinson - 1839 - 124 strani
...revelation. But as long as, for wise purposes, this error was permitted to subsist in the church, ft was productive of the most salutary effects on the...race of mankind, should tremble at the appearance of the divine Judge." The passages of scripture on which this historian founds his opinion are the following... | |
 | George Ayliffe Poole - 1840 - 464 strani
...prophecy and revelation ; but as long as, for wise purposes, the error was permitted to subsist in the Church, it was productive of the most salutary effects...moment, when the globe itself, and all the various races of mankind, should tremble at the appearance of their divine Judge." Now not to mention the malicious... | |
 | George Bush - 1842 - 240 strani
...prophecy and revelation; but as long as, for wise purposes, this error was permitted to subsist in the church it was productive of the most salutary effects...tremble at the appearance of their divine Judge."* Can it be doubted that the language of the sacred writers is so constructed, as that it should, before... | |
 | George Bush - 1842 - 240 strani
...prophecy and revelation ; but as long as, for wise purposes, this error was permitted to subsist in the church it was productive of the most salutary effects...tremble at the appearance of their divine Judge."* Can it be doubted that the language of the sacred writers is so constructed, as that it should, before... | |
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