Pomponio: or, The gospel in Cæsar's household1867 |
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Side 343 - Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me ; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear : and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Side 347 - They died in torments, and their torments were embittered by insult and derision. Some were nailed on crosses; others sewn up in the skins of wild beasts, and exposed to the fury of dogs: others again, smeared over with combustible materials, were used as torches to illuminate the darkness of the night.
Side 347 - Nero were destined for the melancholy spectacle, which was accompanied with a horse-race, and honoured with the presence of the emperor, who mingled with the populace in the dress and attitude of a charioteer. The guilt of the Christians deserved indeed the most exemplary punishment, but the public abhorrence was changed into commiseration, from the opinion that those unhappy wretches were sacrificed, not so much to the public welfare as to the cruelty of a jealous tyrant.
Side 35 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living GOD, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein ; who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Side 333 - These notices bring before us very vividly the moral contrasts by which the Apostle was surrounded. The soldier to whom he was chained to-day might have been in Nero's body-guard yesterday ; his comrade who next relieved guard upon the prisoner, might have been one of the executioners of Octavia, and might have carried her head to Poppaea a few weeks before.
Side 165 - the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty...
Side 14 - Pudens, whom we own as friend, Has wed the British Claudia as his wife. Propitious Hymen ! light thy torch and send Long years of bliss to their united life.
Side 302 - rejoice with those that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep.
Side 278 - ... have compassion on the ignorant and them that are out of the way, seeing that he himself is compassed with infirmity.
Side 198 - Like as a father pitieth his children, the Lord pitieth them that fear him...