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Page 12 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have been esteemed useful engines of government.
Page 163 - But it is not made ready, Nor its depth measured, Nor is it seen How long it shall be. Now I bring thee Where thou shall be ; Now I shall measure thee, And the mould afterwards.
Page 180 - The king, herewith confounded, commanded the Jew to get him out of his sight. But the father perceiving that the king could not persuade his son to forsake the Christian faith, required to have his money again. To whom the king said, he had done so much as he promised to do ; that was, to persuade him so far as he might.
Page 180 - The young man, nothing abashed thereat, with a constant voice, answered : ' Truly, I will not do it ; but know for certain that if you were a good Christian, you would never have uttered any such words ; for it is the part of a Christian to reduce them again to Christ which are departed from Him, and not to separate them from Him which are joined to Him by faith.
Page 216 - God of our fathers, to whom none can say, what doest thou ? commands us, at this time, to dye for his law ; and, behold ! death is even before our eyes, and there is nothing left us to consider, but how to undergo it in the most reputable and easy manner. If we fall into the hands of our enemies, (which I think there is no possibility of escaping,) our deaths will not only be cruel, but ignominious. They will not only torment us, but despitefully use us. My advice therefore is, that we voluntarily...
Page 167 - Likewise he decreed by the hares, that they should go free. His rich men bemoaned it, and the poor men shuddered at it. But he was so stern, that he recked not the hatred of them all...
Page 167 - Maine; and if he might have yet lived two years more, he would have won Ireland by his valour, and without any weapons. Assuredly in his time had men much distress and very many sorrows. Castles he let men build, and miserably swink the poor. The King himself was so very rigid; and extorted from his subjects many marks of gold, and many hundred pounds of silver ; which he took of his people, for little need, by right and by unright.
Page 167 - But amongst other things is not to be forgotten that good peace that he made in this land ; so that a man of any account might go over his kingdom unhurt with his bosom full of gold.
Page 179 - Rhoan on a time, there came to him divers Jews who inhabited that city, complaining that divers of that nation had renounced their Jewish religion, and were become Christians ; wherefore they besought him that, for a certain sum of money which they offered to give, it might please him to constrain them to abjure Christianity, and to turn to the Jewish law again.
Page 160 - Not such the doom Our sorrowing fathers heard of old. The doom that in dread accents told Of Heaven's avenging might, and woe, and wrath to come.