Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piemont, and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses1826 - 295 pages |
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Page xviii
... pastor - Elo- quent appeal - Badness of the weather - The Superga- Victor Amadeus II . - Prince Eugene - Meeting of Eugene and Amadeus - Persecutions of the Vaudois - France and Savoy attack the Protestants - Henri Arnaud - Imprison ...
... pastor - Elo- quent appeal - Badness of the weather - The Superga- Victor Amadeus II . - Prince Eugene - Meeting of Eugene and Amadeus - Persecutions of the Vaudois - France and Savoy attack the Protestants - Henri Arnaud - Imprison ...
Page xix
... pastor Rostaing -His extreme poverty - Toilsome duties of the Vaudois clergy - British pension to the pastors of the Vaudois- The Count Truchsess - Emperor Alexander - New hos- pital at La Torre - Letter from the valleys - Suspension of ...
... pastor Rostaing -His extreme poverty - Toilsome duties of the Vaudois clergy - British pension to the pastors of the Vaudois- The Count Truchsess - Emperor Alexander - New hos- pital at La Torre - Letter from the valleys - Suspension of ...
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... pastor's house - M . Paul Goante - Alpine cottages - Thuanus - Want of reli- gious books - Peasant of Angrogna - Mode of tillage- Mountain fastnesses - La Vachera - Pre du Tour - Ob- stinate and gallant conflicts there - Sublime ...
... pastor's house - M . Paul Goante - Alpine cottages - Thuanus - Want of reli- gious books - Peasant of Angrogna - Mode of tillage- Mountain fastnesses - La Vachera - Pre du Tour - Ob- stinate and gallant conflicts there - Sublime ...
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... Pastors of the Vaudois -Their ministerial labours - Attempts to seduce the Vaudois from their faith - Unsuccessful ... pastor of Bobbio - Repast at the Presbytery - Papists and the second Commandment - Infant baptism - Vaudois , not ...
... Pastors of the Vaudois -Their ministerial labours - Attempts to seduce the Vaudois from their faith - Unsuccessful ... pastor of Bobbio - Repast at the Presbytery - Papists and the second Commandment - Infant baptism - Vaudois , not ...
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... pastor's house - M . Bert - Liturgy of the Vaudois - Interment of the dead - Roman Catholic obse- quies - Funeral ... pastors - Population - Traits of charac- ter - Anecdote - Jean Leger's work - Retrospect - The attestation of Du Petit ...
... pastor's house - M . Bert - Liturgy of the Vaudois - Interment of the dead - Roman Catholic obse- quies - Funeral ... pastors - Population - Traits of charac- ter - Anecdote - Jean Leger's work - Retrospect - The attestation of Du Petit ...
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Page lxxii - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Page 212 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page lxviii - Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious : and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Page 238 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 147 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Page 238 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 146 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Page lxxi - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Page 134 - ... la nature semblait encore prendre plaisir à s'y mettre en opposition avec elle-même, tant on la trouvait différente en un même lieu sous divers aspects. Au levant les fleurs du printemps, au midi les fruits de l'automne, au nord les glaces de l'hiver...
Page 238 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.