History of Latin Christianity: Including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V, Volumen6

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J. Murray, 1864
 

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Página 196 - And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Página 29 - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves : for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Página 231 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Página 13 - It is not by the display of power and pomp, cavalcades of retainers, and richly houseled palfreys, or by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes ; it is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity, by seeming, it is true, but yet seeming holiness. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity ; preaching falsehood by preaching truth.
Página 13 - by the display of power and pomp, cavalcades of retainers and richly houseled palfreys, or by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes ; it is by zealous preaching, by apostolic , humility, by auster- '•''"-,'•'. ity, by seeming, it .. .'.'>-•• is true, but yet seeming holiness. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth.
Página 391 - They died devoutly, nobly. Every circumstance aggravated the abhorrence; it was said — perhaps it was the invention of that abhorrence — that Robert of Flanders, the brother of Charles, struck dead the judge who had presumed to read the iniquitous sentence.
Página 34 - Tasso, might well be enamoured of the ruder devotional strains in the poetry of the whole life of St. Francis. The lowest of the low might find consolation, a kind of pride, in the self-abasement of St. Francis even beneath the meanest.
Página 33 - Mohammedans reverence what they deem insanity as partaking of divine inspiration. The Sultan is said to have listened with respect ; his grave face no doubt concealed his compassion. St. Francis offered to enter a great fire with the priests of Islam, and to set the truth of either faith on the issue. The Sultan replied that his priests would not willingly submit to this perilous trial. " I will enter alone," said Francis, " if, should I be burned, you will impute it to my sins ; should I come forth...
Página 30 - Innocent III. was walking on the terrace of the Lateran when a mendicant of the meanest appearance presented himself, proposing to convert the world by poverty and humility. The haughty Pontiff dismissed him with contempt. But a vision, says the legend, doubtless more grave deliberation and inquiry, suggested that such an Order might meet the heretics on their own ground ; the Poor Men of the Church might out-labor and out-suffer the Poor Men of Lyons.
Página 409 - He just lived to take the name of Hadrian V., to release his native Genoa from interdict, and to suspend with his dying breath the constitution of Gregory X. concerning the Conclave. He was not crowned, consecrated, or even ordained priest. Hadrian V. died at Viterbo.

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