Narrative of the Demolition of the Monastery of Port Royal Des Champs: Including Biographical Memoirs of Its Latter InhabitantsJ. & A. Arch, 1816 - 379 pages |
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Abbesse amidst amongst Angelique Arnauld Besogne Bishop blessed Blois body burying ground c'est captivity Cardinal Cardinal de Noailles carriage chapter-house charity Chartres Christian church Claude Clem Clemencet consolation continually convent court COURTIAUX d'Argenson death destruction of Port Dieu divine divine grace edifying élus eminent enemies eyes fait faith friends garden gloire grace hands heart heaven holy hommes hour Ibid Jesus Christ la grace Lambert lay-sister Leonard lives Lord Louis the Fourteenth MADAME DE MAINTENON Madame du Valois MADEMOISELLE ment mercy mérites monastery Mother Angelica Necrol ness never nuns of Port palace of Versailles Paris peace péché persecution persecutors piety pious poor Port Royal Poulain prayer Prioress prison qu'il recluses religion remains Remicourt replied réprouvés respect Reverend Mother Royal des Champs ruins sacraments sacrifice Scripture sent servants shew side sister soul spirit suffered thee Thomassin thou tion trees truth venerable whilst whole
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Page 80 - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister.
Page 298 - Agonize then, and strive to enter the strait gate; for many shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able; for the kingdom of heaven suflereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Page 112 - ... worship and serve the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.
Page 65 - O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance ; thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerusalem an heap of stones. ( 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air, and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land.
Page 65 - God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance ; thy holy temple have they defiled ; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Page 274 - Claude was visited by the police-officers, and not only all the books intended for the poor were carried off, (though printed with the royal privilege and approbation) but a very considerable part of his own excellent and valuable library was seized. Thus was he deprived of the only outward resource left him ; nevertheless, trying as these malicious persecutions were, it was the means of exemplifying the promise, that all things shall work together for good, to those who truly love GOD.
Page 297 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Page 80 - Having made peace through the blood of His cross, my Saviour hath reconciled all things unto Himself in the body of His flesh through death, to present us holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight, if we continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel.
Page 296 - ... now is the accepted time, and now is the day of salvation.
Page 169 - He hath redeemed us to God by His blood, out of every kindred and tongue, and people, and nation, and hath made us unto our God kings and priests ; and we shall reign on the earth'.