 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1808 - Počet stránok 346
...argument, but by the prospect of gain and the fear of punishment : then it was, indeed, no wonder that the church was contaminated with shoals of profligate...the virtuous few were, in a manner, oppressed and overrvhelmed with the superior numbers of the wicked and licentious.' Such is the account, which one... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1819 - Počet stránok 450
...argument, but by the prospect of gain and the fear of punishment ; then it was, indeed, no wonder that the church was contaminated with shoals of profligate...Constantine the Great, continued now in full force againt flagrant transgressors; but when the reign of corruption becomes universal, the vigour of the... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1824 - Počet stránok 544
...argument, but by the prospect of gain and the fear of punishment ; then it was indeed no wonder that the church was contaminated with shoals of profligate...numbers of the wicked and licentious. It is true, that tha swaa tvsyavovis penitence hich had taken place before Constantine the Great, continued now in fiill... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1826 - Počet stránok 442
...but by the prospect of gain or by the fear of punishment ; then it was, indeed, no wonder that the church was contaminated with shoals of profligate...virtuous few were, in a manner, oppressed and overwhelmed by the superior numbers of the wicked and licentious. It is true, that the same rigorous penitence,... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - Počet stránok 428
...argument, but by the prospect of gain, and the fear of punishment ; then it was, indeed, no wonder that the Church was contaminated with shoals of profligate...the superior numbers of the wicked and licentious. Such was now unhappily the case ; the age was sinking daily from one period of corruption to another... | |
 | Origen Bacheler - 1833 - Počet stránok 388
...was, indeed, no wonder that the church was contaminated by • shoals of profligate "Christians ; ajid that the virtuous few were, in a manner, oppressed...the superior numbers of the wicked and licentious."* Indeed, the principle of compelling conversion by force — the same for which Christians cry out against... | |
 | John Rolph - 1837 - Počet stránok 44
...fear of punishment ; then it was, indeed, n ч wonder that the church -,vas contaminated with sheals of profligate Christians, and that the virtuous few...manner, oppressed and overwhelmed with the superior numhers of the wicked ¿ad licentious It is true that the «ame rigorou« penance, which had take«... | |
 | Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - Počet stránok 386
...gain and the fear of punishment ; then it was, indeed, no wondor that the church was contaminated by shoals of profligate Christians ; and that the virtuous...the superior numbers of the wicked and licentious."* Indeed, the principle of compelling conversion by force — the same for which Christians ery out against... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1841 - Počet stránok 470
...but by the prospect of gain or by the fear of punishment, — then it was indeed no wonder that the church was contaminated with shoals of profligate...virtuous few were, in a manner, oppressed and overwhelmed by the superior numbers of the wicked and licentious. It is true that the same rigorous penance which... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1850 - Počet stránok 470
...but by the prospect of gain or by the fear of punishment, — then it was indeed no wonder that the church was contaminated with shoals of profligate...virtuous few were in a manner oppressed and overwhelmed by the superier numbers of the wicked and licentious. It is true that the same rigorous penitence which... | |
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... and to the instruction of their people ; and when (to complete the enormity of this horrid detail) multitudes were drawn into the profession of Christianity, not by the power of conviction and argument, but by the prospect of gain and the fear of... 
