 | 1803 - 430 pagine
...III. The miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive church. IV. The pure and austere morals of the Christians. V. The union and discipline of the Christian...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire. GIBBON. The following prize Subjects are proposed by the Mary land Society for promoting useful... | |
 | 1820 - 718 pagine
...miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive church. 4. The pure and austere morals of the Christians. 5. The union and- discipline of the Christian republic,...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire.* In stating these causes, the insidious design of Gibbon was to undermine the sacred foundation... | |
 | 1820 - 664 pagine
...miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive church. 4. The pure and austere morals of the Christians. 5. The union and discipline of the Christian republic,...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire.* In stating these causes, the insidious design of Gibbon was to undermine the sacred foundation... | |
 | 1823 - 878 pagine
...miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive church. 4. The pure and austere morals of the Christians. 5. The union and discipline of the Christian republic,...gradually formed an independent and increasing state ¡n the heart of the Roman empire. Before we enter on the examination of Mr Gibbon's causes in the... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1824 - 300 pagine
...powers ascribed to the primitive Church ; 4. the pure and austere morals of the Christians ; and 5. the union and discipline of the Christian republic,...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman Empire, Such are the reasons assigned by Mr. Gibbon for the success of Christianity : the question... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 684 pagine
...III. The miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive church. IV. The pure and austere morals of the Christians. V. The union and discipline of the Christian...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire."1 Such are the historian's five causes ; which, unhappily for his sagacity, are totally inadequate... | |
 | 1825 - 664 pagine
...embrace it ? Yet such was the religion, " accepted by great numbers of every reThe fifth reason is, the union and discipline of the Christian republic,...gradually formed an independent and increasing state in t/te heart of the Roman empire. To this reason are allowed its full weight and influence. The primitive... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 474 pagine
...church. IV. The pure and austere morals of the christians. V. The union and discipline of the ehristian republic, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire. CHAP. I. We have already described the religious harmony XV- of the ancient world, and the... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1829 - 568 pagine
...and austere morals of the Christians. 5. The union and discipline of the Christian repubiic, winch gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman Empire.'- — llaldane's Evidences. GENERAL EXPECTATION OF THE MESSIAH. I had collected many more documents... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1831 - 334 pagine
...main question ever recurs, whence did the Christians derive their superior purity ? The fifth cause is "the union and discipline of the Christian republic,...independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire." But whence did they derive their union, but from their mutual love, for there was no general... | |
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The miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive church. IV. The pure and austere morals of the Christians. V. The union and discipline of the Christian republic, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire. 
