The life and pontificate of Gregory the seventh |
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Page 234 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 141 - The body truly, that Christ suffered in, was born of the flesh of Mary, with blood and with bone, with skin and with sinews, in human limbs, with a reasonable soul living ; and his ghostly body, which we call the housel, is gathered of many corns, without blood and bone, without limb, without soul, and therefore nothing is to be understood therein bodily, but all is ghostly to be understood.
Page 142 - Moses and Aaron, and many other of that people which pleased God, ate of that heavenly bread, and they died not that everlasting death, though they died the common death. They saw that the heavenly meat was visible, and corruptible, and they ghostly understood by that visible thing, and ghostly received it. The Saviour sayeth : He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life.
Page 195 - And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not; and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Page 30 - VIII , que ce prince^ religieux protégeoit de tout son crédit. Un mélange bizarre de grandeur d'âme et de foiblesse ««*?, »'' entroit dès cette époque dans le caractère des Romains, et nous verrons leur inconséquence se manifester pendant toute la durée de cette histoire. Un mouvement généreux vers les grandes choses étoit bientôt suivi par un morne abattement ; ils passoient, de la liberté la plus orageuse, à la servitude la plus avilissante.
Page 141 - Therefore is that holy housel called ' a mystery,' because there is one thing in it seen, and another thing understood. That which is there seen, hath bodily shape ; and what we do there understand, hath ghostly might.
Page 29 - Rome à l'empire d'Orient, il assureroit à la république des secours d'argent, et qu'il la délivreroit à la fois de l'ambition artificieuse des papes , de la morgue et de la violence des monarques allemands. Des ambassadeurs grecs , chargés en apparence d'une mission pour Othon, furent appelés à Rome, où ils s'arrêtèrent, et où ils ébauchèrent avec Crescentius le pacte solennel qui devoit précéder cette grande réunion.
Page 143 - Certainly this housell which we do now hallow at God's altar is a remembrance of Christ's body which he offered for us, and of his blood which he shed for us : so he himself commanded, Do this in my remembrance.
Page 140 - Truly the bread and the wine, which by the mass of the priest is hallowed, shew one thing without to human understanding, and another thing they call within to believing minds. Without they be seen bread and wine, both in figure and in taste: and they be truly after their hallowing, Christ's body, and his blood through ghostly mystery.
Page 30 - Vers l'an i0i0, il avoit rendu à la république son antique forme, des consuls , un sénat composé de douze sénateurs seulement, et des assemblées du peuple. Lui-même, généralement désigné par le titre de patrice, donnoit l'impulsion à la république naissante; un second Crescentius, peut-être son frère, administroit la justice, sous le titre de préfet de Rome, et présidoit aux tribunaux (i).