 | George Stanley Faber - 1828 - 484 pages
...its own. The sword, said he to his intrepid followers, is the key of heaven and hell : a drop of Mood shed in the cause of God. a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment, his... | |
 | 1829 - 414 pages
...then delivered at Medina, and subsequently introduced into the Koran, Mohammed exclaimed, "The sword is the key of heaven and hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God — a night spent under arms — is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in battle receives... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1829 - 236 pages
...admitted into a sensual paradise, if it should be their fate to be slain in battle. "The sword," said he, "is the key of heaven and hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent under arms, is of more avail, than two months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in battle, his... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - 1829 - 502 pages
...then delivered at Medina, and subsequently introduced into the Koran, Mohammed exclaimed, " The sword is the key of heaven and hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God — a night spent under arms — is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in battle receives... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 428 pages
...eternal glory would surely be the portion of such, as were faithful to it. " A drop of blood," said he, " shed in the cause of God ; a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months fasting and prayer ; whoever falls in battle, liis sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgement, his... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 764 pages
...occasion furnished him with : — " The sword," exclaimed the Prophet, " is the key of heaven and of hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent under arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in battle, his... | |
 | Burton W. Carr - 1829 - 316 pages
...into the world not only to teach men hjs will but to compel men to embrace it. The world, said he, is the key of heaven and hell; a drop of blood shed in the caase of God, or a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months, fasting and prayer. Whoever... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 770 pages
...eternal glory would surely bo the portion of such, as were faithful to it. " A drop of blood," said he, " shed in the cause of God ; a night spent in arms, is of,more avail than two months fasting and prayer ; whoever falls in battle, Ms sins are forgiven ;... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 378 pages
...Mecca, tt * Sale's Koran, c. ix. p. 164. f ' The sword (saith Mahomet) is the key of heaven and of hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a...night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months' fasting or prayer. Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds... | |
 | John Whitley - 1830 - 582 pages
...sit corporaliter," Jerome: and when we find him proclaiming that " the sword is the key of heaven, a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than * See Daniel xi. 39. a month's fasting and prayer," we can hardly imagine that the prophetic colouring... | |
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is the key of heaven and of hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent... 
