| 1847 - 530 頁
...election by grace—a man of great intellectual powers. He died in the prison of the Inquisition, and the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church, The principles of opposition to Romish errors were now assuming the form of a scientific structure. In... | |
| Thomas Norton Harper - 1849 - 168 頁
...He suffered, that the Church might be strong. And so in after years did the same law hold good: for the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. The religion of the Cross is the religion of sorrow ; and the efficacy of sorrow is in that Cross alone.... | |
| Christian martyrdom - 1855 - 404 頁
...of martyrdoms were very frequent in those ages, and indeed occasioned the oft-repeated adage, that "the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." The intrepid constancy of Laurentius worked so strong a conviction in two of the spectators, (one of whom... | |
| Friedrich Schiller - 1855 - 352 頁
...they been attended with any better success there than here ? The very earliest Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. The Emperor Julian, the most terrible enemy that Christianity ever experienced, was fully persuaded of... | |
| 1855 - 550 頁
...and persecution proved like the sowing of dragon's teeth, where every one sprung up an armed man ; so the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. The more effort was made against it, the more it progressed, till, from being a despised sect, it rose... | |
| Christians - 1856 - 394 頁
...will break forth stronger and brighter in another." These words were prophetic. His death was near ; but again " the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." Being again summoned to Eome, he addressed letters to the principal monarchs of Europe protesting against... | |
| John Wesley - 1856 - 584 頁
...loose the heathens upon the Christians. Many of these were then called to resist unto blood. And " the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." The apostolic spirit returned ; and many " counted not their lives dear unto themselves, so they might... | |
| JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER - 1857 - 532 頁
...they persecuted. 'The despisers beheld, and wondered, and perished.' They were astonished to see that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church: the grace and power of Christ shewed forth in His saints perplexed and confused their plans. They had to... | |
| George Bowen - 1857 - 220 頁
...number ; yet Christianity had only the more flourished ; insomuch that it 100 passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. The Bawa denied that the disciples were few ; and referred to passages in John 1 1 and 12, in which it... | |
| Jonathan Edmondson - 1857 - 586 頁
...which was delivered by those holy and injured men, took effect ; and it tvas justly observed, that " the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." The patience and firmness of the martyrs in extreme suffering, induced many to renounce heathenism, and... | |
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