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... worship of the Roman gods . Soon a network of roads opened up the country for traffic , stately palaces and villas studded the land , cities and garrison towns were built in important centres , remains of which are found to this day ...
... worship of the Roman gods . Soon a network of roads opened up the country for traffic , stately palaces and villas studded the land , cities and garrison towns were built in important centres , remains of which are found to this day ...
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... worship . This may help us a little to understand the source from which the British Church derived its faith . There were four great Liturgies in use in different parts of the primitive Christian world , obviously of common oral origin ...
... worship . This may help us a little to understand the source from which the British Church derived its faith . There were four great Liturgies in use in different parts of the primitive Christian world , obviously of common oral origin ...
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... worship in the two countries . And there was a great outburst of religious zeal all over Gaul after the still more terrible persecution of Christians by another emperor , Decius , about A.D. 250 , by which the Church in Britain was ...
... worship in the two countries . And there was a great outburst of religious zeal all over Gaul after the still more terrible persecution of Christians by another emperor , Decius , about A.D. 250 , by which the Church in Britain was ...
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... worship of the Saviour , in honour of those who witnessed to His mission by their lives and deaths . On the spot where St. Alban was killed , the Christian Britons erected a church to his memory , which was replaced , as centuries ...
... worship of the Saviour , in honour of those who witnessed to His mission by their lives and deaths . On the spot where St. Alban was killed , the Christian Britons erected a church to his memory , which was replaced , as centuries ...
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... worship God in Christ . It was doubtless to a large extent because the shrewd Constantine had found the Christians in his army brave , resolute , honest , and fearless of death in a right cause ; as well as in grateful recognition of ...
... worship God in Christ . It was doubtless to a large extent because the shrewd Constantine had found the Christians in his army brave , resolute , honest , and fearless of death in a right cause ; as well as in grateful recognition of ...
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Page 119 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 273 - THE HOUSE OF GOD THE HOME OF MAN. By the Rev. Canon JELF. THE INNER LIFE, as Revealed in the Correspondence of Celebrated Christians. Edited by the late Rev. T. ERSKINE. THE LIFE OF THE SOUL IN THE WORLD ; its Nature, Needs, Dangers, Sorrows, Aids, and Joys.
Page 55 - Augustine, is said, in a threatening manner, to have foretold, that in case they would not join in unity with their brethren, they should be warred upon by their enemies ; and, if they would not preach the way of life to the English nation, they should at their hands undergo the vengeance of death.
Page 46 - Then repairing to the bishop of the Roman apostolical see, (for he was not himself then made pope,) he entreated him to send some ministers of the word into Britain to the nation of the English, by whom it might be converted to Christ...