History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century: Including a Sketch of the History of the Reformation in the GrisonsPresbyterian Board of Publication, 1842 - 412 pages |
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Page 282 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 27 - ... with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; 5and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations." 6And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
Page 25 - She who with seven heads tower'd at her birth, And from ten horns her proof of glory drew, Long as her spouse in virtue took delight. Of gold and silver ye have made your god, Differing wherein from the idolater, But that he worships one, a hundred ye?
Page 25 - Treading the good, and raising bad men up. Of shepherds like to you, the Evangelist Was ware, when her, who sits upon the waves, With kings in filthy whoredom he beheld...
Page 24 - Another, how the light shrouded itself Within its tabernacle, and left dark The Spaniard, and the Indian, with the Jew. Such fables Florence in her pulpit hears, Bandied about more frequent, than the names Of Bindi and of Lapi in her streets.
Page 282 - I am resolved to act accordmg to the advice of the blessed apostle Peter, when he says, Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps ; who did no evil, neither was guile found in his mouth ; who, when he was reviled, reviled not again, when he suffered threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. Proceed then to give judgment — pronounce sentence on Aonio ; and thus gratify his adversaries and fulfil your office.
Page 166 - The gospel," says he, in one of his letters*, " is no other than the blessed tidings, that the only begotten Son of God, clad in our flesh, hath made satisfaction for us to the justice of the Eternal Father. He who believes this, enters into the kingdom of God ; he enjoys the universal pardon ; from a carnal, he becomes a spiritual creature ; from a child of wrath, a child of grace; he lives in a sweet peace of conscience.
Page 104 - Italy ;* and it was in this city that versions of the Bible and other religious books in the vulgar tongue were chiefly printed. We have already had occasion to notice, that the first writings of Luther were read in Venice soon after they were published. In a letter written in the year 1528, the reformer says to a friend, "You give me joy by what you write of the Venetians receiving the word of God.
Page 284 - When we take into consideration his talents, his zeal, the utility of his writings, and the sufferings which he endured, Paleario must be viewed as one of the greatest ornaments of the Reformed cause in Italy.
Page 405 - Brother, fear not; greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world.