The General History of the Christian Church: From Her Birth to Her Final Triumphant State in Heaven: Chiefly Deduced from the Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle and EvangelistP. Wogan, 1800 - 512 pages |
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Page xviii
... Emperor Domitian into the Isle of Pat- mos in the Egean Sea or Archipelago , where , as we learn from himself , Apoc . i . 9. he was favoured with this most admirable and most com- prehenfive of all Prophecies . " St. John was a Prophet ...
... Emperor Domitian into the Isle of Pat- mos in the Egean Sea or Archipelago , where , as we learn from himself , Apoc . i . 9. he was favoured with this most admirable and most com- prehenfive of all Prophecies . " St. John was a Prophet ...
Page 8
... Emperor Domitian , St. John , as we have seen , was put into a caldron of boiling oil at Rome , which he bore with invincible patience , and came out unhurt ; after which he was banished into the island of Patmos , in the Archipelago ...
... Emperor Domitian , St. John , as we have seen , was put into a caldron of boiling oil at Rome , which he bore with invincible patience , and came out unhurt ; after which he was banished into the island of Patmos , in the Archipelago ...
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... emperor , put a stop to them . The words , hail , fire , and blood , pretty plainly express some of the most remarkable kinds of death inflicted on the chriftians ; fome being confumed by fire , others having their blood spilt by the ...
... emperor , put a stop to them . The words , hail , fire , and blood , pretty plainly express some of the most remarkable kinds of death inflicted on the chriftians ; fome being confumed by fire , others having their blood spilt by the ...
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... Emperors , and to infpire them with the rankeft hatred against the Chriftian Religion . To open the fcene of his hellish machinations , he made use of the Em- peror Nero , doubtlefs a very proper inftrument for the work , as being ...
... Emperors , and to infpire them with the rankeft hatred against the Chriftian Religion . To open the fcene of his hellish machinations , he made use of the Em- peror Nero , doubtlefs a very proper inftrument for the work , as being ...
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... Emperors Galba , Otho , and Vitellius , and the hu- mane difpofition of Vefpafian and Titus , gave fome reft to the Chriftians , till Domitian fucceeding be- gan the fecond general perfecution . This Empe- ror , a fecond Nero in cruelty ...
... Emperors Galba , Otho , and Vitellius , and the hu- mane difpofition of Vefpafian and Titus , gave fome reft to the Chriftians , till Domitian fucceeding be- gan the fecond general perfecution . This Empe- ror , a fecond Nero in cruelty ...
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