...II. We have now gone through the five reasons, assigned by Mr. Gibbon for the success which attended inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and...appearances of sanctity. The contempt of the world tercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The we they were persecuted, the more...

...testimonies of enemies fully avail to show, that the Christians of the first ages were a people whose them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the...strictest integrity and the fairest dealing, to remove the suspicion which the profane are too apt to conceive against the appearances of sanctity. The contempt...

...only of virtue, but of penitence. The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul." " Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the...temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The more...

...only of virtue, but of penitence. The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul." " Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the...temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The more...

...only of virtue, but of penitence. The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul." " Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the...temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The more...

...is the acknowledged virtues and holy lives of the primitive disciples. The historian confesses, that 'their serious and sequestered life, averse to the...temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The more...

...very few Christians had suffered by the hand of the executioner, except on account of their religion. Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the...which the profane are too apt to conceive against the appearance of sanctity. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness,...

...executioner, except on account of their religion. Their serious and sequestered life, averse to tho gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance,...fairest dealing, to remove the suspicions which the profano are too apt to conceive against tho appearance of sanctita-. The contempt of the world exercised...

...its paths are peace." Jane Taylor. CHARACTER OF THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS DRAWN BY AN INFIDEL. THEIK serious and sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury...to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober domestic virtues. As the greater number were of some trade or profession, it was incumbent on them,...

...very few Christians had suffered by the hands of the executioner, except on account of their religion. Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the...economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues.' He gives them credit for ' the strictest integrity ;' and ' the fairest dealing in their worldly trades...